[WriteLog] WriteLog Digest, Vol 95, Issue 8

Mon Nov 8 22:00:26 PST 2010

I'm no programmer, so I'm flummoxed.

I'd like to submit to getscores for all/most of the upcoming contests: SS
Phone; ARRL 10 (both modes); ARRL 160; ARRL RTTY Roundup; CQ160 (both
modes); ARRL DX (both modes) and CQ WPX (both modes).

Does this mean I need to have a separate script for each contest.

Egads!  I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like nor it's supposed to
look like in the end.  Advanced indeed. A hindrance, to say the least.

I think the entire WL community would benefit from someone writing these
scripts as they do with contest modules. (or building htem into a
WL-specific uploader as one of the competitors does.

73,
Eric W3DQ
Washington, DC

Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:10:15 -0600
> From: Steve Woodruff <sjwoodr at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] GetScores w/v10.81? (Eric Rosenberg)
> To: writelog at contesting.com
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Did you check the help topics first?  Open up the help then in the Index
> you
> can enter "getscores" and bring up the details.  It is an advanced setup
> topic and I'm not sure if there are step-by-step instructions available,
> but
> you should definitely start with the published help first.  :)
>
> Steve N9OH
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:00 PM, <writelog-request at contesting.com> wrote:
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:42:06 -0400
> > From: Eric Rosenberg <wd3q at starpower.net>
> > Subject: [WriteLog] GetScores w/v10.81?
> > To: writelog at contesting.com
> > Message-ID: <4CD4DC9E.5020205 at starpower.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >
> > Can someone explain how to set up GetScores for Sweepstakes CW and
> > Sweepstakes Phone, not to mention other contests (ARRL 10, CQ 160, and
> > ARRL DX, my favorites!).  I need the "Heathkit" version - -step by step!
> >
> > Thanks & 73,
> >
> > Eric W3DQ
> > Washington, DC
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:34:18 -0600
> From: "KC4HW" <kc4hw at centurytel.net>
> Subject: [WriteLog] Create Reports?
> To: writelog at contesting.com
> Message-ID: <4CD70D4A.30120.882D07D at kc4hw.centurytel.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Clicking CONTEST, Create Reports and the hourly breakdown did not
> populate with information.  The breakdown of Offtime was shown...
>
> Is this broke?
>
> Writelog 10.81f
>
>
> Jim/KC4HW
> http://www.AlabamaContestGroup.org
> http://www.AlabamaQSOParty.org
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 19:38:05 -0000
> From: "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb at gmail.com>
> Subject: [WriteLog] SSCW 2010 K0HB
> To: "MWA Reflector" <MWA at w0aa.org>,     "WriteLog Reflector"
>        <writelog at contesting.com>
> Message-ID: <5E9AB8EB8DB347C08E158EABE80900E7 at HANSPC>
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>
> Good conditions, poor station performance.  We pledged 150K and had an
> actual goal of 175K, but missed by a big margin.
>
> Call Sign: K0HB
> Operator(s) : K0HB K0CKB
> Category : MULTIOP (High Power)
>
>    Band    QSOs
>     80     262
>     40     235
>     20     324
>     15      41
>
> Mults: 79 (No ND)
>
> Total Score: 862Q?s x 2 x 79 = 136,196
>
> Contest started strong on 15M capturing almost all W6/W7 mults in the first
> half hour, and then things started to go downhill.
>
> We use WriteLog and the rig interface is a microKEYER-II (embedded K1EL
> ?winkey?).  Upgraded to the latest version of WriteLog just prior to the
> contest.
>
> Over the past several seasons this combination has been bullet-proof, but
> about a half hour into the contest started to have odd keying behavior.  The
> keying stream would randomly drop a character or two for no apparent reason.
>  For example, if I sent an exchange like ?K1ABC 11 M K0HB 65 MN?, it might
> drop the ?H? in K0HB and insert a space there, resulting in ?K1ABC 11 M K HB
> MN?.  But the missing ?H? did not die --- it would appear later at some
> inappropriate time, either keying up the rig when I was in receive mode
> copying an exchange, or in the middle of some later transmitted string!
>  These come-back-to-life characters were not random ? they were always the
> actual AWOL characters previously dropped.
>
> The problem was not predictable, but would show up after about a half hour
> operating, give or take, and get progressively worse quickly, to the point
> of transmitting a gibberish consisting of the current transmit string (often
> missing characters) and inclusion of previously dropped characters come back
> to life.
>
> Closing WriteLog and restarting it did not clear the problem.  In fact,
> while out of WriteLog, sometimes a vagrant character would surface and key
> the rig!  It was if some characters were delayed in the OS (Win7) between
> the application and the USB output port.  The only way to resolve the issue
> was to reboot the computer.  After reboot, things would run nicely for
> usually about a half hour.
>
> Did I mention it is a new computer?  We replaced our shack/office computer
> back in May.  It?s a 64-bit Win7 machine with oodles of memory and a
> quad-core processor.  Before this weekend, we?d only done some casual CW
> contesting with no problems on  this machine, but it seems the problem takes
> about a half hour of activity to manifest itself.
>
> Well, after a couple hours of operate/reboot/operate/reboot we decided that
> the patient needed a computer-transplant.  The previous computer had been
> given to a grandkid, so we had to resurrect a 2nd-previous machine out of
> the garage rafters.  Bear in mind we were well into the contest, and wanted
> to continue our log without manually retyping all the existing Q?s.  Best
> way to do that would be a thumb drive, but they?d all gone into hiding, so
> before decommissioning the current machine, I sent my log to myself as an
> email attachment and closed down quickly before it ?came back?.
>
> Transplanted the old machine into the station, and found it had no WriteLog
> installed, so then had to download/install the current version.  Also had to
> update the microHAM router program to match the new firmware in the
> microKEYER-II.  Then gathered my email with the log attached and copied it
> into the appropriate directory.
>
> Finally got the transplants and transfusions complete, and after some sleep
> the old Win-XP machine performed like a champ for the remainder of the
> contest.  So it wouldn?t seem to be a WriteLog problem.  Seems more like
> some characters stopped in the OS someplace for lunch before heading out the
> USB port.  So is it a Win7 issue, or a RF-sensitive computer?  The problem
> was manifested ONLY in the CW keying problem --- otherwise the computer and
> Writelog did NOT hiccup in any other sense.  Seems like RF would affect
> other things in addition to this keying problem?
>
> Ended up with about 19 hours operating time, but missed a lot of good
> rate-time on Saturday evening, so missed our goal by quite a bit.  No sweep
> ? missed ND. Never even heard one, although I heard a pileup working a
> whisper-thin K5xxx on 15 Sunday afternoon which seemed to be NW of me.
>  Other than that possibility, never even smelled something likely to be ND.
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> --
> "Just a boy and his radio"
> --
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