Bart, thank you very much for the new prefill file for the RTTY Roundup. It
worked great! I think there were only a handful that weren't correct but I was
too busy to write them down. Sorry.
Thanks for doing this. It helps a LOT.
73, Don AA5AU
On Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at 04:51:12 PM CST, Bart Ritchie (VE5CPU)
<ve5cpu@sasktel.net> wrote:
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prior individuals who did host files but those sites were no longer active.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
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