I have never played much with Writelog's exchange fields except for
eliminating unnecessary fields so I found Wayne's post on its other
settings interesting. For the ARRL 160m contest you could set the
field to require an entry and then create a section multiplier called
DX so you have something to enter when you work DX. I assume that the
majority of stations worked have actual sections so this would not add
much typing over the contest. Then you would have to delete "DX" text
from the cabrillo file. Perhaps just using an alias section mult "DX=
" would create a cabrillo file not needing editing.
John KK9A
Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote:
The 160 contest does not require an exchange for DX stations. WL won't
let you enter anything that is not a recognized section name. So you
end up leaving the exchange field blank for DX. I suspect this is the
reason the 160 contest defaults this way. If you set it to required,
you would have trouble logging DX stations.
Randy K5ZD
My suggestion remains as I previously posted.
You can change this behavior using WriteLog's menu item
Contest/Exchange-Format-Setup. In the left most column (labeled
"Exchange Fields") click on the "SECT" entry. The "Required" check box
by default is OFF. Click it ON.
Then OK.
File/Save to keep this change for the next time you open this .wl file.
Anyone that follows my suggestion as written will get the results
requested by the original posting. There are lots of ifs/ands and buts
that can be considered, but I am quite sure that, of the postings quoted
above, only my own has actually been tested on a running version of
WriteLog. (I make this claim because I did the testing.)
Wayne
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