[WriteLog] Field Day and Extra Bands

[Marty Tippin]

I know there was a question about this recently, but I don't recall seeing 
any response, so I dug into the problem a little further since I'm trying 
to get the logs set up for Field Day:


For Field Day, I need to set up a couple of additional bands (1.25M and 
70cm) and change some existing bands (add FM to the phone band entry for 2 
meters).

So how to do that?

* Adding the extra bands (via the Band | Setup Bands) dialog seems to work 
"mostly" OK.  QSOs made on a new band are scored correctly, BUT the 
auto-fill when working a station on the new band that's already been worked 
on one of the existing bands does NOT work **This seems like a bug** 
Working a station on an existing band and then working that station on the 
new band does work as expected -- the QSO information is auto-filled and 
the QSO is scored correctly


* There is no way to edit the existing 2m band to add FM to it (Why? 
Probably because Wayne hasn't gotten around to it yet), and adding it as a 
separate band entry (so that there's an entry for 2m USB/LSB and another 
for 2m FM) doesn't handle dupes "correctly" -- that is, if I work a station 
on 2m USB and then work that station on 2m FM, the second contact isn't 
flagged as a dupe. This isn't a bug -- but since there's no way to edit the 
band, this will surely bite some people.


* I solved the problem by COMPLETELY removing the existing band definitions 
and then re-adding exactly the ones I needed, with separate entries for CW, 
FSK and (all the phone modes). This is a fairly time consuming and rigorous 
process (if you screw it up, you get to start over from SCRATCH...)

My final band setup looks like this:

   1800 -   2000  USB,LSB       160m Ph
   3500 -   4000  USB,LSB       80m Ph
   7000 -   7300  USB,LSB       40m Ph
  14000 -  14350  USB,LSB       20m Ph
  21000 -  21450  USB,LSB       15m Ph
  28000 -  29700  USB,LSB,FM,AM 10m Ph
  50000 -  54000  USB,LSB,FM,AM  6m Ph
144000 - 148000  USB,LSB,FM,AM  2m Ph
222000 - 225000  USB,LSB,FM,AM 1.25mPh
420000 - 450000  USB,LSB,FM,AM 70cm Ph

There is an identical set of entries to the above for CW and another for 
FSK. If we were going to go work any other bands (33cm, 23cm, etc.) I would 
have added them as well. I didn't worry about programming the phone and CW 
sub-band edges, as the operators know where they should be and it's a lot 
easier to just remember the outer edges of the entire band.

This is the ONLY way to get WriteLog to score dupes correctly and to 
auto-fill information from other bands.

Hope this is helpful -- and by all means, if I've misstated or otherwise 
screwed anything up, please let me know!

-Marty NW0L
  martyt@pobox.com





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