[ct-user] Fat Finger Quandry

[K8MFO at aol.com]

Hi Mark:

Thank you for your suggestion.    I now have  indeed edited the Cabrillo 
log to remove the "false L" from the 3 QTC receiving  stations.    In addition 
I edited the callsigns in the  wae2009.wae file, which appears to be the 
log of QTC groupings.
 
Now all would be well, except for the fact that I sent QTC groups 2/8 and  
7/5 to YR1C.    He stopped me then without saying why, but the  program had 
already recorded those last 5 as sent QTCs.  At that point  I became 
suspicious and discovered my problem.   Of course YR1C is  allowed only 10 received 
QTCs, which may be the case in his log, but in fact my  Cabrillo log shows 
13 as being sent   !!   Not sure how this  would be handled if I sent my log 
in  ??       Do I just lose credit for 3 sent QTCs or will I have to spend 
6 hours in the  dunk tank at the next Friedrichshafen Hamfest?
 
Anyway, I do this all for fun, and next time I will be more careful with  
opening and operating within the QTC window!    Thanks again  Mark!
 
73
 
Don K8MFO
 
 
In a message dated 8/9/2009 7:28:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
kd4d at comcast.net writes:

Hi  Don:

If I understand the problem correctly, you can just edit the  Cabrillo log
and fix the offending "QTC" lines manually.

If you look  at it, the required changes should be clear.  The QTC is in up
to ten  lines with the receiving station's callsign in EACH  line.

73,

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From:  K8MFO at aol.com
To: ct-user at contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009  4:58:26 PM (GMT-0400) Canada/Atlantic
Subject: [ct-user] Fat Finger  Quandry

It has been years since I played in WAE CW.     On Friday night I set 
things up and was very pleased with  myself as I figured  out how to send 
QTCs 
by using ALT L.   It took a  while to get my aging brain into sync,  
realizing that I had to hit ENTER after  the callsign of the station  to 
whom the 
messages were being sent.

While "fat fingering" this  process, I inadvertently (short for screwing  
up!) added an L  immediately before 3 of the receiving stations call signs. 

For  example....   YR1C is now   LYR1C       DL8DYL is now  LDL8DYL       
DM1A is  LDM1A

How do I fix this?     I did go into the  callsign  line to bring up the 
erroneous callsigns, and then  reactivate the QTC  window.      I changed 
the 
call  signs "post contest",  but I don't think that did it...

Who is  wiser than I  am?     ........  I know ... that  leaves me wide  
open.

TIA for any help.   Its no big  deal.    I can  always submit just a check 
log with a note  to the sponsors...   I was  a good boy and never went 
above  
7040, so maybe they would take pity on me!

73

Don  K8MFO
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