[Trlog] 1B67LAX Bug

[Jimmy Weierich]

Well, I, for one, am not perfect.  I know that entering spaces will 
prevent the problem.  Even so, last year in SSB SS I was dinged for 
an incorrect callsign and penalized another QSO for the error.

Here's the line from my ARRL log checking report:

U88SF is a busted call.  The correct call is KC6AWX.

Here's the line from my log:

  10SSB 16-Nov-02 21:26   22  U88SF           12  U 88 Sf            Sf       2

BTW, I don't remember what was in the exchange field at the time, 
but I don't see any single digit serial numbers here.

I knew this had happened at the time, but had no idea what the call 
should be.  I could have deleted the QSO, but that would have 
penalized the other operator for my error.

Regardless of the ways to prevent this from occurring,  operators do 
make mistakes in the heat of battle.  At least some of us do.

I repeat what I said before - software should not allow one to lose 
data due to a dumb mistake.

Saving what is in the callsign field before replacing it and allowing 
it to be recovered with a CTRL-key combination seems like a simple 
enough solution.

I don't understand why there is such resistance to fixing this!

Jimmy



>On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:36:19PM -0600, Mark Beckwith wrote:
>>
>>  Thanks guys for all the responses.  I figured that out pretty quickly myself
>>  during the contest.  In fact, it would take a space between the precedence
>>  and section to figure it out.  Actually I think a space between any two
>>  consecutive elements made it work.
>>
>>  Still a bug, but now I know how to work around it.
>
>You can work around it if you do not ever enter a
>single digit serial number as well.
>
>01A66NM
>
>Will work just fine.
>
>
>>
>>  However, I know I logged at least one contact with some guy whose call was
>>  468B89MN or something.  Seems like that call shouldn't be allowed.
>
>I can not make 468B89MN update the callsign field.
>
>
>--
>George Fremin III - K5TR
>geoiii at kkn.net
>http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr

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Jimmy Weierich, K2LV,   ex KG2AU       <kg2au at stny.rr.com>
Vestal, NY  USA           FN12xa