Problem using POST for QSL labels

[Larry Tyree]

> On the other hand, I don't want to buy any more software.  I generate my
> labels from Word, using the mail merge features.  The problem is
> generating the mail merge source database from my TR log files.  The log
> files contain all the contacts in a nicely repeatable format, but they
> also contain header and footer lines which are useless to the label
> maker.  Can you tell me in POST how to generate a log file with just the
> QSO info lines?  Or can you add a simple feature to output the data in
> CSV format so I can get it into Excel quickly and easily?

You can do this by doing the ARRL log convert.  It removes all headers
and footers.  You should be able to export that into an Excel Spreadsheet
and eliminate some stuff and then output in the format you need for
the merge file.

> PS. This feature seems a whole lot more useful to me than having an
> entry in some database [that I'm not using anyway] to tell the computer
> to speed up or slow down for a particular callsign regardless of band
> conditions, QRM, guest operator, speed he's sending, whether I have a
> pileup or not, etc. .........

:-)

Or how about dynamic weight adjust?

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