I have my computer and monitor on a small UPS (maybe $60 at Costco). If power
dies I have plenty of time to do an orderly shutdown.
Jerry W4UK
> On 08/14/2023 9:29 AM EDT Keith Beebe W3KB <keith@w3kb.net> wrote:
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> I am a WriteLog contesting software user.
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> I was operating in the weekend's Worked All Europe (WAE) CW contest and had
> 110 QSOs and 25 QTCs (Messages) as of early Saturday morning. I had planned
> to operate all weekend.
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> All of a sudden there were multiple electrical power "Blips" (rapid On-Off)
> that happened. That "crashed" the computer logging the contest.
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> When I got back in operation I noticed my 110 contacts were still in the log
> but my QTC's were not. What's going on?
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> I had to drop out of the WAE CW contest because my QTC's were gone and the
> Writelog software now thought I was back to QTC #1. Could not realistically
> send another QTC because the content tracking of the specific messages and
> their composition plus the QTC numbers were gone.
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> Writelog does indeed have a safety mechanism for such situations in that it
> has what they call a "journal" backup file in case things like power outages
> happen. It makes a journal of the log during a contest.
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> However, here's the part of that operation that I missed. "These changes
> (QTCs) are Not written to the journal file and Cannot be recovered if you
> exit or crash without saving your log."
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> For this specific contest Writelog does not automatically backup QTCs during
> the logging process. It recommends periodically Manually saving the log
> during the contest. Well, I didn't do that and of course along comes the
> power "blips".
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> I should have looked closer to Writelog's setup instructions for this
> specific contest.
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> At least I now know what happened and now know what to do in the future
> specifically for the WAE CW contest.
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> Keith W3KB
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