[WriteLog] NAQP CW Module Dangerous Behavior

[Ned Swartz]

I went to the WL website looking for whatever happened to the old NamedMult file 
and found:

File/Web-Update-Data-Files
updates super-check-partial files and WriteLog-specific data file updates but 
not country files.

and

For all WriteLog users, there is no requirement that you update these databases. 
A WriteLog full install (which you download when you purchase) installs a set of 
data files. WriteLog upgrade installs do not update the data files–you keep the 
ones from your full install or the ones you have updated using the procedures on 
this page. Running WriteLog with old country files affects WriteLog’s score and 
multiplier calculation while you are operating in the contest. Contest sponsors, 
however, generally run their own multiplier checking and do not look at any 
multiplier calculation in your submission. (In fact, the nearly universally used 
Cabrillo format has no place in it to count multipliers.)

I never used File/Web-Update-Data-Files because my habit has been to update SCP 
and Country files directly from their respective websites.  Since reading the 
above on the WL site, I did a File/Web-Update and lo and behold my WL file from 
yesterday's NAQP now recognizes DC as a mult and puts DC in the Cabrillo file v. MD.

I guess I need to do a File/Web-Update on a regular basis but I still think my 
comment that loggers should record what was entered is valid.

Ned K1GU

On 8/6/2017 9:18 AM, Ned Swartz wrote:
> Using 12.18F
> 
> DC was scored as MD.  Not a problem for me as I don't care much about the 
> details of the claimed score.
> 
> What concerns me is that that I logged DC as that was sent by the station but 
> WriteLog put MD in the Cabrillo log.  That means the QSOs would have been busted 
> by the log checking had I not noticed and edited the Cabrillo file.
> 
> I think the logger should always record what the operator entered.
> 
> Ned K1GU
> Happy user since 1999
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