[Trlog] Changing Config Files & Ctrl-V Questions

[Jim Smith]

Hi Mike,

Never having done the rover thing, I didn't think of that.  Thanks for 
setting us all straight.  I would hate to think that I gave a bunch of 
people a bum steer which messed up their logs.

Looks like, once again, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!  Glad 
you noticed.

73 de Jim Smith   VE7FO

Mike Heideman wrote:

> Jim, VE7FO said:
>
>> You could use the config files you wrote for your batch file
>> solution. Just hit CTRL-V and enter the file name of the
>> appropriate config file.
>
>
> Changing the CW messages is the easy part.  If you use the
> CTRL-V solution then TR will not have recorded the current
> county anywhere.  The county is normally entered when running
> POST to create the Cabrillo file.  Since there is a single LOG.DAT
> file, a single county will appear in all QSOs in the Cabrillo file.
>
> You could put a CTRL-N note into the file for each county change
> and then break it up into county logs for POST using a text editor
> after the contest.  This seems like a lot more trouble and more
> prone to mistakes than the DOS batch file solution that WT9U
> is already using.
>
> The MY QTH parameter is only used for scoring the contest
> as you go along so its value is the state, not the county, for
> state QSO parties.  It is never written to LOG.DAT anyway,
> which is why POST has to ask for the county/QTH.
>
> 73,
> -Mike, N7MH
>
>
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