[WriteLog] CQ WW RTTY prefill file

[Gary AL9A]

Next weekend is the CQ WW RTTY Contest.  Hopefully the geomagnetic field 
will be kinder to me then than it was today for the BARTG 75 RTTY Sprint. 
Total blackout at this QTH.

This year I revised my strategy for building the prefill exchange file for 
this contest.  Since the exchange is Zone number for everyone plus QTH 
(State/Province) for US and Canada stations I decided to take a different 
tack.  The CQ WW RTTY Contest web site has many interesting features, among 
them the Score Database and the Public Logs page.  In looking at the results 
for 2014 in the Score Database I noted that eight of the top ten finishers 
were in EU, one, P49X, was in the Caribbean and the other two were US, K9CT 
and NR5M.

I surmised that these top ten finishers had a lot of US/VE calls in their 
logs along with the Zone and QTH information needed for a prefill exchange 
file.  So by accessing the details of the 2014 top ten finishers logs via 
the Public Logs page I was able to construct a current data base file that 
would be the source of a new prefill exchange file.  This strategy appears 
to have merit as the new file contains 2,169 US/VE calls, whereas my 
previous file only had about 1,400 calls.  This new file can be downloaded 
at the link below.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wzepf7kj7ec3l8c/AAB6y1snXpZ0NuC7CcD_rmNta?dl=0

As always, be alert for discrepancies between what the prefill file contains 
and what the station actually sends.  The over the air copy supersedes any 
data in the prefill file.  For those who have never used a prefill file 
before and want to give it a try the following link is to a pdf document 
that describes how to configure WriteLog to use the downloaded prefill file.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mckz6zbuklff0up/WriteLog%20Prefill%20Exchange%20file%20loading%20instructions.pdf?dl=0

73,
Gary AL9A