[WriteLog] NAQP CW Module Dangerous Behavior

[Randy Thompson K5ZD]

WebUpdateData files did fix counting DC as a multiplier. And it did allow the entered DC exchange to flow through to the Cabrillo file.

Lesson learned!  Keep things updated.

Randy K5ZD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ned Swartz [mailto:nosatisfaction at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2017 6:24 PM
> To: writelog at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] NAQP CW Module Dangerous Behavior
> 
> 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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