[WriteLog] Newbie help needed for IARU

[John E Bastin]

I'm a little late with this reply (I haven't looked at my mail since Friday because of the contest), but for what it's worth:

At 22:56 -0400 07/13/2001, Brian Wruble wrote:
>1.  In the entry window, I don't see a place to enter the exchange from an
>HQ station or the "AC", "R1", "R2" and "R3" that Administrative Council and
>IARU Regional Executives give.  Where does that go in the entry window?

Just type over the zone number. There's room for all the characters used in the HQ station exchanges.

>
>2.  Does Writelog figure out which are HQ stations and score them correctly
>(... are all HQ stations identified by an HQ suffix?

No

> Or is there a list
>embedded somewhere in Writelog?)

No, it doesn't matter. The multiplier information is figured out from the exchange entry.

>
>3.  What is the "C" field for?  I think it is to resolve ambiguities in
>prefix, but I can't find an example that demonstrates this.  For example,
>every "JD1" call that I try comes up Ogasawara, so there is no suggested
>alternative to resolve between Oga and Minami.

It doesn't matter. The multipliers in IARU HF are ITU zones, so the country name that's displayed in the entry field doesn't make any difference. Just make sure you get the correct zone entered if you work one or the other (we should be so lucky).

>
>Thanks for any last minute help here, guys.
>

Sorry I didn't get it in sooner.

73,

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