[Trlog] POST routines

[Richard Ferch]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, W6RCL wrote:


>I suspect that putting the three significant figures (the khz info) from 
>the LOG.DAT file into the Cabrillo log would be fairly easy... but since I 
>am not a software writer myself, I don't really know.
>

Yes, it is quite easy to do. I wrote a little DOS program to do this a few 
years back, called CBRFRFIX (for Cabrillo frequency fixup). You can 
download it from:

http://www.storm.ca/~ve3iay/download.html

IIRC (I haven't used it myself in a while!), in a contest which does not 
use serial numbers  (such as the IARU) you just create the Cabrillo file 
from POST and then run CBRFRFIX. Tell it the file name of your Cabrillo 
file, the file name of your LOG.DAT file and the file name for the new 
output Cabrillo file, and it will merge the frequency data from the log 
file into your Cabrillo file and output the result into a new Cabrillo file.

For contests with serial numbers, you must first use POST to create a 
second copy of your log file with the QSOs renumbered (to replace the 
frequency data with serial number data), then run POST on the *new* log 
file to create a Cabrillo file containing the serial numbers, then run 
CBRFRFIX on the new Cabrillo file and the *original* log file to put the 
frequency data in the right place. This may involve some futzing around 
with file names (if the original log file is LOG.DAT, the new log file will 
probably be called LALLBOTH.DAT. Rename LOG.DAT to LOGFREQ.DAT, rename 
LALLBOTH.DAT to LOG.DAT, create the LOG.CBR file, and then use CBRFRFIX to 
combine LOG.CBR with LOGFREQ.DAT to produce LOGFREQ.CBR). SAVE A BACKUP 
COPY OF YOUR LOG FILE IN ANOTHER DIRECTORY OR FOLDER FIRST!

Hope this is what you were looking for.

73,
Rich VE3IAY


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