[UK-CONTEST] Writelog-Jubilee contest

[Clive Whelan]

Hi

I am delighted to report that we now have a near viable module 
to support the Jubilee contest under Writelog.


This has been achieved by Ray/G4FON, to whom all WL users owe a 
debt of gratitude- well done Ray!

In fact even a pro. C++ programmer like Ray was unable to 
accomplish this on his own, since the supplied documentation for 
the Contest Wizard is quite inadequate for the purpose. However 
I am also grateful to the author Wayne/W5XD for providing the 
necessary documentary support to enable Ray to complete the job.


So where exactly are we?


Commonwealth Stations
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There appear to be zero problems and e.g. inter U.K. QSOs if 
made are zero pointed. Also working a station on both modes on a 
single band is zero pointed. In both cases you are warned of 
this, but not actually prevented from working the station. I 
think this is good, and precludes the " oh yes we did, oh no we 
didn't arguments!" Moral , work him( her) if they insist and let 
the software do the hard work!


ex Commonwealth stations
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Currently these stations are allowed to work each other for 
points, which is wrong, although an intelligent operator should 
obviate this possibility in the first instance. However not all 
entrants read the rules (shurely shum mistake , Ed?) so ......


I've probably gone off a tad half cock, but I just wanted to 
pass along the good news straight away. I think we are still at 
the "alpha" stage yet, but hopefully it won't be long before we 
put the module out for beta testing.


Of course SD already supports this contest fully, as already 
outlined by Paul/EI5DI. TRlog also supports the contest via 
third party modules, and I will invite " s-u-b-s-c-i-p-t-i-o-n" 
shortly. Tim/G4VXE is working with N1MM for that logger, and 
hopefully that will come to fruition shortly. I believe that CTJ 
from 9H1EL may also support the contest as a CT clone. 
Unfortunately it looks as tho' NA users may have to poop the 
party, unless I have missed something.



73


Clive
GW3NJW
gw3njw at gw7x.org
Contest Cambria-http://www.gw7x.org