[WriteLog] Networking and dups in log

[Dean St. Hill]

Hi Phil,

Great job on Sable Island!!!

I can only answer one section of the question, which is that if it were a 
contest, the dupes would be marked in the log, and you would not be 
penalised.

Personally, I think you should just leave the dupes - what if I work you on 
20m at 0100z, but wasn't sure I made it into the log, I then work you two 
days later at 2200z on 20m.. I figure I'll use the second contact which I 
was sure got into your logs, you on the other hand take out that second QSO 
on 20m as a dupe... Can you really QSL my report, which is technically not 
in your log???

This could be even more complicated if (I'm 8P6SH) and you worked say 8P6FH 
soon after me the second time around at say 2204z, 25 QSO's further down the 
log. When you receive my QSL card, and it shows up as not in log... and then 
you run into 8P6FH.... you may even be tempted to believe that you did work 
8P6SH at the time on my card....

I think you should just leave the logs as they are, dupes and all.

I'm not so sure I have a solution to the rest of your query.

Again congrats on a nice operation on Sable Is.


Best regards,


Dean


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Florig" <W9IXX at arrl.net>
To: <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:57 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] Networking and dups in log


> Hi all,
>
> Returned from the Sable island trip and Writelog worked great.
>
> The other two were using CT and were impressed by the Writelog program.
>
> This is the situation/problem.
>
> The two computers on CT were networked together and ok for awhile
> until some interference happened and they broke the connection to
> both work individually.  Logging continued with just the network now
> disconnected.   Looking back should have stopped the logging
> here and restarted with new log names to keep the logs seperate.
>
> Looking at the logs on both computers, now have duplicate entries
> while they were networked and stand alone entries after the
> connection was broken.  How can the logs be combined/merged and
> not have the duplicates show in the combined log?  I can go in
> the ADIF files and manually delete the dups but if the log is
> large can be long day...   In age of computers must be a fast
> way I don't know about.
>
> I bring this up here, because once I get them to use Writelog and
> if this same thing happens, what are the options?   I could not
> find anything in the archives on my computer or the web.
> I noticed in the Help file under File Merge that it will
> import ADIF files but would it clean the dups (meaning real dups
> with all the parameters the same) or just add the two dups as
> independent qso's?  See next as answered this question.
>
> I tried importing the two ADIF files, with dups in them, into
> Writelog and it just appended them in the log.  Did not strip
> out the real dups.   Could this then cause a scoring problem
> if it were a contest.
>
> Hope I am clear on this and open to comments/suggestions.
>
> 73  Phil  W9IXX/CY0AA
>
>
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