[WriteLog] SS .ini

[Jerry Pixton]

All,

Let me start pushing the ball.  I clean up my namedmul.ini before each RTTY 
contest. I have no problems sharing it with others. Maybe we can 
incrementally get up to date contest by contest?

Request for Comments -

What I have seen wrong with the structure and what I suspect is being used 
by Writelog to produce the Cabrillo output is the following. The wrong 
abbreviations are in the "real" part and the proper ones are in the 
aliases. My algorithm for change has been to put the correct abbreviation 
e.g. "OR" in the "real" part and then put "ORE" in the aliases. That way I 
can log what is sent but that points to the correct abbreviations which 
comes out in the cabrillo output. If what is sent is not in the "real" part 
or an aliases then that can be fixed after the fact by adding the aliases 
and rescoring. So if someone sends "NFL" and the report is state, not 
section, then you have to log NFL and put it in the aliases to point to FL 
which is a multiplier.

I have a whole list of these changes that I have been making this year.

So if my understanding of how the namedmul.ini is used is correct I will 
make the changes for the Roundup next week and since this file is only 
19kbytes long I will put it on my web site.

Any discussion?? We need to agree on the rules of change. We need a place 
to store the change for any contest. And then we need a way to merge the 
changes into a "master" namedmul.ini file.


Jerry, W6IHG


At 01:14 PM 12/19/2002 -0800, Jim Reisert wrote:
>This whole topic has really gotten out of hand.
>
>I sent a message to Tree N6TR this morning, hoping to get some 
>clarification on
>what the log checking software does.  He gave me two simple rules, and some
>more commentary (in quotes) as follows:
>
>1.  Always log what was sent.
>2.  Log using abbreviations in the ARRL Section list.
>
>"Sometimes, these are in conflict.  Some software will clean up the input from
>the operator and only log the official abbreviation (I think most do this).
>Others will log whatever you type in.
>
>[...]
>
>"I would say that any issues with the QTHs not matching the ARRL published 
>list
>should be fixed in the software or templates for next year.  If you use a
>program that doesn't clean up the input, then log what was sent.
>
>"Please have your software use the official ARRL abbreviations."
>
>73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
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