[WriteLog] Ohio QSO Party module

[Edward Palagyi]

The way I handled this situation was to enter the county and hit the space bar. The 
dupe alert is replaced by NEW MULTIPLIER if the county had not been worked 
before or the DUPE is removed if you had already worked this county with another 
station. If a dupe the DUPE alert remains. Once I figured this out it was no problem 
working the mobiles. Later in the contest I would check the multiplier list when a 
mobile changed a county. If not worked I grabed the contact. How you do the duping 
does not matter. Some mobiles backtracked.
Ed KN4Y


8/26/2002 14:48:22, "John E Bastin, K8AJS" <jbastin@sssnet.com> wrote:

>This past weekend I used WriteLog for the first time in the Ohio QSO 
>Party (last year there was no module, so I had to use NA). I ran into 
>a quirk that is probably a function of WriteLog, and not of the 
>module, that hasn't been a problem before, because most contests 
>don't involve working the same station multiple times on the same 
>band and mode.
>
>When you work a station the second time, WriteLog will insert 
>information in the QSO entry fields that corresponds to information 
>copied in previous contacts. I hadn't paid much attention to this 
>before, but now I've noticed that WriteLog apparently does a top-down 
>search of the log to obtain this data, and displays the data from the 
>first time the station was contacted in the contest.
>
>In the Ohio QSO Party, and possibly other contests of this type, one 
>entry classification is Mobile, and the Mobile stations move from 
>county to county, working stations from each county through which 
>they pass. Part of the exchange for Ohio stations is the county.
>
>The problem I had in WriteLog with the top-down search was that, 
>after I worked a Mobile station the first time, every time I worked 
>them again, I would be shown a display of the first county I worked 
>them. This was NOT helpful in determining whether I had already 
>worked them in their current location.
>
>I would like to see the search in WriteLog be a bottom-up search, so 
>that displayed contest info when I enter a call would be the info 
>entered in the most recent previous contact. If this were the case in 
>a contest such as the OQP, I could immediately see when I entered the 
>call whether my last contact with the station was in the same county, 
>or whether they had changed counties and were now in a new one.
>
>If others like the search the way it is, and prefer a top-down 
>search, perhaps it could be made an option controlled in the INI 
>file. The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that the 
>bottom-up search would be very preferable, at least in all the 
>situations I can think of.
>
>73,
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