[WriteLog] Contest Prefill Files hosted on the Writelog Website

[Bart Ritchie (VE5CPU)]

Good day everyone

I am please to announce that Wayne Wright, W5XD has graciously agreed 
to host contest prefill files on the Writelog website.

The files can be found at: https://writelog.com/downloads/prefill-files

To download the file currently, you must right click on the link name 
and save the file.  Auto downloading will be implemented soon.

Background:
I took an interest in creating prefill files for use in the RAC 
Canada Day and Canada Winter contests and was having difficulty 
finding anyone who hosted these files.  I had seen mention of two 
prior individuals who did host files but those sites were no longer active.

I reached out to Wayne at Writelog and asked if he would host prefill 
files if I created some and he agreed.  I thought this would be one 
of the best longer term solutions to the issue of hosting prefill 
files for the longer term for the Writelog contesting community.

While developing a process to create the required ADIF files used by 
Writelog I expanded it to include conversion of some of the files 
from N1NM call history files (CHF)/  I reached out to and received 
permission from Claude Duberger, VE2FK to use his files with 
attribution back to him and the folks at N1NM.

Thanks to his work and the other supporting those efforts I was able 
to created 11 additional prefill files as a starting point.

I am willing to coordinate updating these files and creating 
additional contest prefill files for the next several years.  If you 
would like to have a prefill file created for contests supported by 
Writelog, I will do my best to accommodate such requests.  The 
dependency will be availability of data.

I hope the contesting community and Writelog users will find these 
files of value in their contesting efforts.  As always with data of 
this sort , use the prefill information as an aid. Be sure to verify 
the data and ultimately log what the station sends.  Never assume the 
prefill data is 100% correct.

If anyone is interested in assisting in this process, I would be 
happy to share the resources I created in Excel.

73, Bart Ritchie - VE5CPU