[WriteLog] SS .ini

Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:17:20 +0000

Wayne,

Wonderful. Thank you. It is more complicated than I thought.

I will send you a copy of the changes I have been making this year for your 
inclusion

Jerry, W6IHG

At 06:26 PM 12/20/2002 +0000, W. Wright, W5XD wrote:
>I think Jerry has described WriteLog's behavior accurately.
>In the WriteLog help file there also is a topic named
>"Updating Multiplier Lists" that has a bit more detail.
>
>And, as I said in a previous posting, current versions of
>WriteLog don't output sanitized Cabrillo, so no matter what
>happens to namedmul.ini, WriteLog will output the multiplier
>as logged by the operator rather than as converted through
>namedmul.ini.
>
>As for putting namedmul.ini on the web, I think the best
>bet is put on on writelog.com that is up to date. But I
>won't try to stop anyone else from posting a copy--it just
>doesn't seem to be the kind of thing that needs duplicates.
>
>If you email me a copy of namedmul.ini, I'll post it.
>If you only want to update the entries for one particular
>contest, then I can do that, too. Just send me the sections
>of the file you want corrected.
>
>Wayne
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> > [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jerry Pixton
> > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 12:19
> > To: jjreisert@alum.mit.edu; writelog@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [WriteLog] SS .ini
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >=====
> > >Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
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