[Trlog] On-Timer

[Dale L Martin]

Reading N6ZZ's comments reminded me to ask about this on TRLog reflector:

Is it possible to include a timer to display the current ON-time in a
contest?

The timer could be based on exiting the program and re-entering it (maybe
even tell the op if he/she is good to go -- the proscribed off-time duration
has been reached), just not having any entries made for the minimum off-time
duration, typing "off" in the callsign field, etc.

During SS and other on-time-limited contests, I've found myself, in spite of
numerous calculations performed during on-times, running short or running
long on time.

If the TRLog software could track the on-time looking for the very same
things that the log checking software looks for to ascertain operating time
and display it in realtime, that would be great.

73,
dale, kg5u


N6ZZ's January 2002 NAQP CW Logging Accuracy message on the CQ Contest
reflector:

A few weeks ago, K6LL posted some statistical information regarding
logging accuracy in the Jan. 2002 NAQP.  The details were as follows:

Call    -----Claimed Data-----  Final   % Reduction
N2IC    1227    290     355,830 353,220 0.73%
N2NL    1209    290     350,610 340,170 2.98%
W4PA    1145    288     329,760 321,488 2.51%
N9RV    1118    291     325,338 321,610 1.15%
W6EEN   1080    295     318,600 315,268 1.05%
K6LL    1107    264     292,248 286,578 1.94%
K3MM    987     287     283,269 280,973 0.81%
W9RE    962     292     279,444 274,050 1.93%
K5RC    1076    255     274,380 265,608 3.20%
K0EJ    1019    266     271,054 267,650 1.26%
N6ZZ    983     266     261,478 238,170 8.91%  <---
W7CT    1031    247     252,681 250,920 0.70%

I was astonished to see that my score reduction was 8.91%.  I finally
got around to checking my log, and thought that others might be
interested in what I found.  I discovered that one of the 4 thirty
minute breaks that I took was actually only 29 minutes.  Therefore, it
wasn't counted as a break.

The log checking software determined that at 0430Z, I had used up all 10
hours of operating time permitted in the NAQP.  Consequently, all
contacts (and multipliers) made between 0430Z and 0500Z were deleted
from my final score.

You can bet that I'll be checking break times a little more carefully in
the future!

73,

Phil, N6ZZ