I used TRLog 6.27 to log our club's CW station this last weekend. The
program was serially connected to a TS-850 and was picking up band and
mode information correctly. In the LOGCFG.DAT file I used the line
"CONTEST = FIELD DAY".
When I looked at the log last night to do the post processing, I noticed
a few things I did not understand:
1) all CW contacts were only scored with 1 point. The FD rules
indicate that there are 2 points per CW and/or digital contact. I
looked at the Pascal file and it showed that the default scoring
mechanism was a single point for CW or phone. I suggest that this be
changed for next year.
For this year, is there any way to recompute the data that has already
been logged? Can I add a "2 points CW 1 point phone" command after the
contest statement in LOGCFG.DAT now and have the program recount all the
contacts as 2 points?
2) 1 point was given to stations with a class of 1D, 2D, 3D, etc.
My understanding was that a class A station can work a class D station,
but they don't get any points for it. Is there any way to enter the
class of my station and let TR invalidate contacts with "D" class
stations?
I suppose that I can manually edit the log and assign 0 points to them.
3) Is there any way to designate a contact as "digital" in TRLOG.
I made a few RTTY contacts and had to log them as CW with a note
afterwards to remind me that they were really digital.
FUTURE UPGRADE WISHLIST:
The SSB station was running CT and I noticed that their display of
sections was arranged differently. It had 11 vertical columns and in
each column the ARRL sections associated with that call region were
listed vertically in alphabetical order. This was very handy and it
gave me a quick summary of which areas of the country I needed to
concentrate on. I realize that with the vanity program (and people who
travel to another location for the contest), the number in the callsign
doesn't always match the section.
Thanks for a great product. I think a converted a few CT users to TR
during the event. They liked the user interface and the CW capabilities
they thought were better than CT's.
73 de Jack, KU0KU
Kansas City
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