Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Hope this is not a DUPE. For whatever reason, unknown to me, when using MS
Outlook, when I try to send a email or make a reply my email gets rejected by
the writelog server. So I am resending it via MS Mail which I normally never
use. This is a new problem as I have been able to make posts for over 10 years.
To me the major concern is that it would not accept the ARRL Sections. As you
noted it is set up for states as the MULT but should be by sections. When
someone would send SJV, SDG, ORG, LAX, EWA, ENY, NNJ, MDC, NTX, STX, etc etc as
they should WL would reject them. I didn't see a work around other than keep a
written log on paper and correct the final log before submission but that would
be a lot of work. I speak from experience. I started contesting before
computers. Back then we used a paper log with separate DUPE sheets for each
band that we checked before answering a CQ to be sure it was not a DUPE. You
can see my 1960's Heathkit contest station on my QRZ.COM page. A real PITA but
not as bad as using RTTY from the cockpit of a C-130. I had several tapes I
could run thru the ASR-32 tape reader for my position reporting, etc. Then the
flite mech would come up into the cockpit bringing coffee or box lunches and
plant his size 12 boots on my tape as it was running. Fun, Fun. I could
tune onto the API/UPI Intl HF freqs and print out a daily newspaper as we
traveled all over the world.
Alan K7ACZ
-----Original Message-----
From: WriteLog On Behalf Of Steve Woodruff
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 06:47 AM
To: WriteLog Reflector <writelog@contesting.com>
Cc: Alan Zack <k7acz@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] NV QSO Party
Hi Alan,
I wrote the NVQP contest module many years ago and it is likely that the county
abbreviations have changed but the module hasn't been updated to reflect that.
In fact, I just went and took a look.... and the county abbreviations are
different than they were when I wrote the module, but only slightly. Now they
list them with the NV prefix. So instead of CAR, CHU, CLA, etc... it is NVCAR,
NVCHU, NVCLA.
In WriteLog you can go to the contest menu and click 'show multipliers' and it
would have shown what the WL-accepted multipliers were and you could have
logged them as CAR, CHU, CLA, etc... and then edit your cabrillo log before
submission to add the NV prefix to those county abbreviations.
I also see that for Nevada stations, you are to log the "ARRL/RAC section" of
the non-NV station. Right now the module is just setup for states/provs.
That'll need to be updated as well to support ARRL/RAC sections instead of
states.
Regardless, i'm sorry this happened to you and anyone who used the NVQP module
this year. I'm going to make an update to the module this week so that its
fixed for 2021.
Enjoy,
Steve N9OH
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