[Trlog] File Recovery

[Robert Tellefsen]

Paul
Something to try.
Open the file with EXCEL and use the spreadsheet sorting
function to put the log entries in chronological order.
Then you can number the entries sequentially.
Good luck and 73
Bob N6WG



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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:27 AM
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Subject: [Trlog] File Recovery


We were getting ready to leave Germany in May of 1993.  I wanted to  work
one
more major contest before returning to the states, so I put a major  effort
into WPX CW.  I did very well, as I recall, probably one of the top  two or
three scores in Europe in the LP category.

Through a series of colossal screwups at the end of the contest I somehow
managed to delete major portions of my log.dat file.  This was compounded
by my
daughter attempting to retrieve some of her homework from the computer
while
I was in the log checking process.  When I attempted to retrieve the  file
from my backup floppy, it failed.  I was SOL!  I might have made  a more
serious
effort to retrieve the data, but we had to pack up and move out  of our
house.

I was going through a bunch of my old contest files recently, and
discovered
that individual band files had been created for that contest in my  ARRL DX
directory!  How they got there, I don't know.  I was able to  append them
all
into a new log.dat file.

Here are some questions:

My appended file is still by band.  How can I merge those QSOs so the  QSO
numbers are what they were in the original log.dat file?

How can I run this log.dat to obtain my final score?  I know the  scoring
has
changed since '93.

Is there an online archive of final scores anywhere that I could check  to
see where I might have placed in the contest.

Thanks!  Paul, K5AF, DA1AM
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