Kostas/SV1DPI wrote:
> How can I say to writelog that the mult station is used as mult1
> (mult
for the run1 station) or mult2 (mult for the run2) station
> every moment
to be according the allowed band changes?
This is a very good question. This can be done in Writelog fairly easily but it
is not automatic.
To start with you have to assign initial roles to all of the radios. The
confusing part of this is that the menu selection at first glance seems to
suggest M/S roles only, although in reality both M/S and M/2 are handled
according to the documentation. For M/S the roles are Run/Mult. For M/2 the
roles are A/B. I'm assuming the CQWW contest.
For the first Run radio use the Radio menu and select "This window is RUN (A)
radio". You've now assigned this radio to "station A" of your M/2. For the
second Run radio use the Radio menu and select "This window is MULT (B) radio".
You've now assigned this radio to "station B" of your M/2. Ignore the words RUN
and MULT in these menu selections, that's for M/S and the A and B are what's
used for M/2.
Finally, for the "Mult" radio use the Radio menu and assign it to be either
part of "station A" or "station B". Let's say you select "This window is RUN
(A) radio" which assigns it to station A.
In the Band Change window for each radio, right-click and choose "Band Changes
per hour". This is not set by default because WriteLog does not know whether
you are M/2 or M/S. Automatically setting everything through a M/2 or M/S
selection sounds ideal, but given the many possible assignments of more than 2
radios to Run/Mult/A/B it doesn't seem practical.
To test the logging and Band Change functionality log some QSOs on station A,
changing band on each QSO. Mix it up, logging some QSOs from Station A's Run
radio and others from the Mult radio that has been assigned to Station A. Note
that the column labeled "m" is logging all of these QSOs with a 0. The band
changes are tracked in the row labeled A in the Band Change window. Log one or
more QSOs on the B Run radio, also changing bands with each QSO. These QSOs are
logged with a 1 in the "m" column and the band changes are tracked in the B row
of the Band Change window.
Continue making QSOs with band changes on Station A until 8 QSOs have been made
on A. The circle in the A row will change from green to yellow and instead of
listing the cumulative band changes on station A it now reads "One band change
OK" and has a countdown timer until the end of the clock hour. Logging another
QSO on a new band on station A will cause the circle to change from yellow to
red and the text to read "Must stay on ??m for" followed by the countdown timer
where "??" is the band on which the final QSO was made.
Getting back to the original question, the Mult station can now be reassigned
from the A role to the B role to continue making QSOs on the non-Run bands
until the 8 band changes have been exhausted on station B. This reassignment is
made by choosing "This window is MULT (B) radio" on the Mult radio Writelog
instance.
The "m" column is exported into the Cabrillo file as the transmitter ID so the
contest rules for M/2 are satisfied.
One word of warning... it's probably best to distribute the Mult radio QSOs
between the A and B roles instead of exhausting all of the band changes in
either A or B. If you need to make another band change on the Run radio when
you've used up all of the band changes for that role then you're either stuck
on the wrong band or will have to carefully edit the log or Cabrillo file to
avoid exceeding the band change limit. I speak from experience after losing 30+
QSOs in one M/2 effort in which we were not careful enough in editing the
logged radio after exceeding the band change limit in one role but not the
other.
I hope this helps. Most of the earlier responses didn't seem to understand the
question.
73,
-Mike, N7MH
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