[WriteLog] something glitched...

[Scott Detloff K8DX]

Change the frequency to 21250 and I bet the "B" disappears.  It just
means that your frequency entered was out of the band.

Scott

Scott Detloff K8DX
Paris, Ohio
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----- Original Message -----
From: "K6RB" <k6rb@baymoon.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 3:23 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] something glitched...


> I used WriteLog in the ARRL SS Phone contest this weekend and it worked
> flawlessly ... until the final hour. Then, something glitched and it
> wouldn't let me enter info. I saved the file and rebooted the computer.
> Everything looked okay when it came back up, and it let me enter info, as
> before. However, each of the last 36 QSOs that I logged had a sequence
> number that looked like this  "1308B". The "B" was in red. And I noticed
> that it was no longer incrementing either the band total or the score
total.
> I finished the contest, saved everything and  found that the Cabrillo log
> file had all the information. The only thing wrong (of course) was the
> claimed score, which I manually edited. I'd like to go back into the log
and
> have those last 36 QSOs calculated into the score and the band total. I
> realized that when I first rebooted, the log had defaulted to the 1800 KHz
> band and I didn't notice that. So, I edited the first post-glitch QSO and
> changed the frequency to 21000 KHz, and did the same for the log, itself.
I
> thought that licked the problem...but it didn't. The subsequent 35 QSOs
> still continued to carry that ominous red "B" and were not counted. Can
> anyone clue me in on what I need to do to rectify the situation? I will
file
> the Cabrillo log with the ARRL, with the edited claimed score, so that's
no
> problem, but I'd like to know what happened and how to correct it in the
> future. Thanks in advance.
>
> Rob K6RB
>
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