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[WriteLog] something glitched...

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Subject: [WriteLog] something glitched...
From: k6rb@baymoon.com (K6RB)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:34:54 -0800
Richard,

Yep. I had only changed the frequencies from 1800 to 21000 but didn't notice
the mode button had CW selected. Once I did that for all the QSOs, it worked
like a charm.

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Thorne" <rthorne@tcac.net>
To: "K6RB" <k6rb@baymoon.com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] something glitched...


> Rob:
>
> I believe you have to edit each qso and change the band/mode.  Changing
the
> prior qso does not affect subsequent qso's.
>
> K6RB wrote:
>
> > I used WriteLog in the ARRL SS Phone contest this weekend and it worked
> > flawlessly ... until the final hour. Then, something glitched and it
> > wouldn't let me enter info. I saved the file and rebooted the computer.
> > Everything looked okay when it came back up, and it let me enter info,
as
> > before. However, each of the last 36 QSOs that I logged had a sequence
> > number that looked like this  "1308B". The "B" was in red. And I noticed
> > that it was no longer incrementing either the band total or the score
total.
> > I finished the contest, saved everything and  found that the Cabrillo
log
> > file had all the information. The only thing wrong (of course) was the
> > claimed score, which I manually edited. I'd like to go back into the log
and
> > have those last 36 QSOs calculated into the score and the band total. I
> > realized that when I first rebooted, the log had defaulted to the 1800
KHz
> > band and I didn't notice that. So, I edited the first post-glitch QSO
and
> > changed the frequency to 21000 KHz, and did the same for the log,
itself. I
> > thought that licked the problem...but it didn't. The subsequent 35 QSOs
> > still continued to carry that ominous red "B" and were not counted. Can
> > anyone clue me in on what I need to do to rectify the situation? I will
file
> > the Cabrillo log with the ARRL, with the edited claimed score, so that's
no
> > problem, but I'd like to know what happened and how to correct it in the
> > future. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Rob K6RB
> >
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> Richard Thorne
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