[WriteLog] ADIF export includes bonus (unclaimed?) QSOs

[Ed Muns]

There is probably not a perfect solution.

You could argue that pre-contest warm-up QSOs (marked "Unclaimed") should be
left in the ADIF log file so that QSL credit can be assigned in LotW or
paper QSLing.

OTOH, mid-contest logging errors that are marked "Unclaimed" probably should
probably be omitted from the ADIF log file.

The problem is that there is no easy way for the software to distinguish
between these cases.

I think the way WriteLog works now is the best trade-off.  If you don't want
the logging errors in your ADIF, then you can take the log off the network
and actually delete those QSOs.

Ed W0YK

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Mike N7MH wrote:

I just exported the ADIF file for the W1AW/6 effort in the California QSO
Party from W6YX and noticed that there were 3 QSOs in the ADIF file with
times about 10 minutes before the contest started.

I just checked the Cabrillo file that I created before leaving the W6YX
shack and it does not have these 3 extra QSOs.  I don't have the WL file and
a copy of WriteLog available at home so I can't investigate further without
returning to W6YX.

I suspect that one of our operators accidentally logged these 3 stations
while warming up a frequency with the W6YX callsign and that they were
probably marked as unclaimed.

Is there a way of preventing unclaimed QSOs from being exported into the
ADIF file?  These are often mistakes that can't be deleted during the
contest when operating with networked computers.