[WriteLog] CQP..WL anomalies

[Don Cassel]

Clive,

You can fix both problems quite easily. 

1. For the county codes open the mults window- Contest, Show Multipliers...
and you will see all the acceptable abbreviations. I too found that stations
who sent additional characters to be awkward to handle but I soon learned to
ignore the extras.

2. To correct the cursor jumping after a 4 digit serial, go to Contest,
Exchange Format Setup... Click on NR, click the check box beside Tab Only
and click OK. Now the cursor will stay in the field until you press tab or
space (which I prefer).

73, Don VE3XD

-----Original Message-----
From: writelog-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Clive Whelan
Sent: October 4, 2004 12:49 PM
To: writelog at contesting.com
Subject: [WriteLog] CQP..WL anomalies

I had two problems, one of which might not be a WL issue, the other
certainly is.


1. Several stations sent county codes greater than 4 letters, which then
spilled over from cty1 to cty2. An example was PLACER. I have no idea what
this represents, since I have no access to accepted county codes. Someone
else sent PLAC, which I assume is correct, and is one and the same thing? I
assume that the rules do state a four letter code to be sent, and WL
reflects this?


2. More seriously, and in need of a fix I think, was that when a 4 digit
serial number was sent, the cursor jumped automatically to the county field,
by which time my reflex action had already "spaced" to that field, then
ending up in cty2 field, which required manual editing which was tedious. I
did get the hang of this, but don't think the cursor should really jump like
that ( Wayne?).

Nice opening on 21Mhz around 17z +/-. Signals varied from S9+ to barely
readable. Are there really W6s running 100w watts and G5RVs!!


73


Clive

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