[TRLog] OFF time not properly displayed/calculated (operator error)

[Al Gritzmacher]

I never use the /ON /OFF because I always screw it up somehow. 

For contests where I care about time (where I operate long enough to 
need to be sure) I wrote a little program that scans the log file and spots 
long periods between QSOs and if greater than a certain threshold, 
counts it as a time off. Not perfect, but gives me a start of where to look 
and figure out the time spent in the contest later.

Perhaps such a routine could be put in POST?

73,

Al AE2T
On 23 Nov 99, at 5:16, n6tr@teleport.com wrote:

> 
> > I'm a knucklehead. Somehow I got oh-eff-eff and oh-en confused and ended up
> > with the following log entries for my one hour dinner break. I COULD
> > manually edit these entries to fix reality but is there any way to have TR
> > ignore the second "Break started" entry and recalculate the off time, and
> > correct the subsequent accumulated off times (obviously this had to happen
> > during my first break during the 'test)?
> 
> I think the best solution for now is to have me remove the /ON and /OFF
> features in the program.  This is really a hard thing to do well so that
> it won't get messed up.  I would rather not have the feature there than
> cause problems.
> 
> Maybe someday, I will figure out an elegant way to implement this
> feature and make it reliable.  Personally, I don't use it.
> 
> Tree

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