[RTTY] makrothen: distance calc. using VQ-log

[f6irf at free.fr]

This is a little addendum to my previous post...

Distance calculation using VQ-Log
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To import the adif into VQlog the gridsquare should appears like this 
<GRIDSQUARE:4>EN82  
If your contest software exports the "exchange received" in a general format 
(ie <EXCHANGE2:4>EN82 )  you can just use wordpad to "search and replace" in 
the adif  (in this example S&R <EXCHANGE2: by <GRIDSQUARE: )
   
IN VQ-log: create a new LOG - import the ADIF and run a QSO summary for the 
contest QSO's (from "Summaries" menu). Specify you own locator on prompt (if 
you want the calculation to be done for the center of your square specify LL as 
2 last locator digits)

You will get something like this:  

15/02/2004 12:10 ZF2NT         EK99                      RTTY             2097+-
15/02/2004 12:35 YV5AAX        FK6ØOM                    RTTY              847
15/02/2004 13:51 N2WK          FNØ3XE                    RTTY             3396
15/02/2004 13:52 N3EN          FM19                      RTTY             3006+-
15/02/2004 13:57 K9DJ          EN54WN                    RTTY             4031
15/02/2004 14:02 W5RW          EM35XL                    RTTY             3716
15/02/2004 14:12 N9QQK         EN62                      RTTY             3807+-

This is an example done from a few of my LOTW confirmed QSO's for the WPX from 
FG/F6IRF. The +- just indicates that this is an approx. value for the center of 
the square (once again you can use wordpad S&R to get rid of the +-). Obviously 
as the contest report uses the 4 digits locator you will get +- for all Q's.

Last but not least: Easy... but the only problem is that VQ-log is quite big to 
download (12MB)

73's - Patrick