[WriteLog] SS Serial Numbers

[Michael Joens]

In my log I see that some numbers were skipped and some doubled. Trying to 
reconcile, I found that if I were to renumber the QSO's (which I won't 
actually do), over a 100 QSO's are off by one. There's no way to go back 
and determine what number I actually gave out. I think the league may 
accept "off by one", but I want to make sure that is true when I visit on 
Wednesday. I could email, but it's easier to show and tell in person.

It depends on how the UBN's are run. If they are only by call, we'd be all 
set. If you loose a QSO due to not-in-log, you may loose the section if it 
was your only contact. Given that several people had this problem, we may 
want to make the league aware of it when we submit the log (in the comments 
in the cabrillo file).

Michael, K1JE

-----Original Message-----
From:	Marty Tippin [SMTP:martyt@pobox.com]
Sent:	Monday, November 20, 2000 9:54 PM
To:	Michael Joens
Subject:	RE: [WriteLog] SS Serial Numbers

At 08:27 PM 11/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>By the way, the issue was not insurmountable once I noticed it. I just 
paid
>attention to the QSO field after that. There was no going back to the old
>QSO's. Only a few errors are obvious, but there is a series of about 100+
>QSO's that are off by one number.


Do you mean you have a bunch of QSOs that are logged with serial number "n" 
but you gave out "n+1" (or "n-1") - or do you just mean there's a gap in
the sequence of serial numbers?  Because if you gave out a serial number
that is different that what is in your log, you're going to lose credit for 
those QSOs when the log checking programs run!  But if you just skipped a
number here or there (or accidentally gave the same number twice) I think
there's a lot less to worry about...

In my case, I found that Writelog was about to give me the same serial
number twice (after skipping a number), right after I worked VY1JA (a
mult!) - on that second QSO, I gave out the "correct" number and quickly
logged two Q's with the station, one with the "wrong" qso number that
Writelog wanted to use, and another using the next (correct) number that I
actually gave out. I then went back and deleted the first of those two Q's.

But about 5 Q's later, it happened again and I didn't catch it in time - so 
I just deleted one of those two where I gave out a duplicate serial number
(with apologies to the guy who's going to lose that contact also) - since
the second of those two was a mult and I needed it.

73,

-Marty NW0L
  martyt@pobox.com


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