[ct-user] Fw: serial numbers in wpx cw

[Rick Dougherty NQ4I]

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From: <mailto:nq4i at contesting.com>Rick Dougherty NQ4I 
To: <mailto:ct-user at contesting.com>ct-user at contesting.com 
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 6:18 AM
Subject: serial numbers in wpx cw

Hello all...this is being composed during the heat of the contest....we experienced serial numbering problems with Ct989.002...........first occurence was on 10m, when an operator went back a few contacts to correct a callsign...it changed the serial number by 4 qso numbers...for a quick fix we added 4 dupe contacts to the log to get the sequence back to the correct serial number....then it happened on 20m...we lost over 400 qso's numbers...I had all the ops stop and we had a pow-wow...there is no way to edit the serial numbers on the "fly"...we could pack it in and wqait till next year or we could hope that the contest scoring committee can possibly rectify a soultion to our problem...as of the writing of this e-mail...the count on 40m has gone back over 400 qso' numbers, 20m is over 600 qso numbers off...and 15m is close to 300 numbers off....on a positive note we have had zero network problems...DXtelnet has operated with out any problems and the network has hummed along nicely...we areapproaching 4000 qso's and the scoring of our log is totally corrupted!!! Using merge utility after the contest will not correct this problem, either...as it might re-number the qso's....we only have 6 computers networked in the station...an additional computer provides the internet telnet connection....Ken what can we do here??? we have a top 5 score and the log is in "lala land"....somebody needs to fix this problem!!!!!!!...we will send in our logs with as many details as we can provide...we will score outside the "CT" scoring mechanism .....de Rick    p.s. the times logged by the computers were never corrupted.