I have not operated the ARRL 160m contest in a long long time. I just
tried Wayne's suggestion in my older version of Writelog. Changing
SECT to "Field is required for entry in log" does still allow DX
stations to have no field entry. This was not clear to me in Wayne's
initial post. US/VE will require a field entry to log the QSO after
this change is made.
John KK9A.
[WriteLog] ARRL 160m CW Module
Wayne support wrote:
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.
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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