[WriteLog] Pre-Filling Exchanges?

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

Why bother to even enter the contest then?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Ferdinand W2CS" <w2cs@bellsouth.net>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 19:12
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Pre-Filling Exchanges?


> I agree with Dan. This capability is a necessity to be competitive.  I
must
> be missing something too.  Hope so.  It is not cheating to be informed
about
> the stations you work - just another way of improving efficiency, like
> filling in 599, etc.
>
> Things like this have been in DOS-based loggers such as CT and TR and NA
for
> years.  Ops coming off those programs onto WL dearly would like not to
take
> a hit in operational productivity.
>
> Wayne, any chance of having a release that targets those ops converting to
> WL from one of the DOS loggers?  Might be new business oppty there!
>
> 73,
>
> Gary W2CS
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> > [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Dan Levin
> > Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 1:10 PM
> > To: writelog@contesting.com
> > Subject: [WriteLog] Pre-Filling Exchanges?
> >
> >
> > We are considering moving to WL at a M/S station that I op at -
> > we are using
> > CT right now and have been for a while.
> >
> > The big 'issue' that prevents us from going to WL is the question
> > of whether
> > WL can 'pre-fill' the exchange using data from old contests.  I
> > know it does
> > using data from the current log - in NAQP for example if you have
> > worked the
> > guy on 10 earlier when you work him on 15 WL fills in the
> > exchange for you.
> > Can WL do this using data from old logs (e.g. last year's log
> > from the same
> > contest) the way that CT does?  If so, I can't find it in the manual...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >                      ***dan, K6IF
> >
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