Re: [Xlog-discussion] Log editor "free field" labels, awards and contests

[Jacob Anawalt]

Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> Op dinsdag 01-05-2007 om 17:32 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Jacob
> Anawalt:

> In some distant future I will switch to the XDIF format for the logs.

I look forward to that. For now, this works well (better all the time as 
I learn the 'hidden' features.

> xlog supports STX, RTX, SRX_STRING and STX_STRING out of the box. if
> your RST field contains 599060, ADIF export will have "<RST_SENT:3>599
> <STX:3>060". If the exchange field does not contain numbers, STX_STRING
> will be used.

It makes sense to put the contest exchange there now that I have learned 
that tip. Before I was lost on how to do it since I don't have a history 
with ham contesting software.

> > I've searched the archives and found one note that tlf may be the way to 
> > go for HF contests

I don't 'get' tlf yet. Since I've proved the xlog tool and am not very 
fast anyway, I used it for the little time I spent on the 7QP 
(http://www.7qp.org/). It worked great. Since the exchange is fairly 
fixed, I set a default value for RST (59UTCAC) and each time I hit 
ctrl-k, I was almost ready to hit ctrl-a.

After the contest I exported to my first cabrillo file. After some minor 
tweaks it was ready to email in. The exchanges split oddly more often 
than not. Here's a snip from the log that shows it going back and forth.

QSO:  7240 PH 2007-05-06 0036 KD7YKO        59  UTCAC  NN7ZZ         59 
 UTCAC
QSO: 14252 PH 2007-05-06 0110 KD7YKO        59U TCAC   N9Q           59I N
QSO: 14237 PH 2007-05-06 0120 KD7YKO        59U TCAC   N7GP          59A 
ZGHB/GLX
QSO:  7276 PH 2007-05-06 0133 KD7YKO        59  UTCAC  K7A           59 
 AZYVP/CNO

This seems similar to the issue posted here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/xlog-discussion/2004-02/msg00016.html

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Jacob / kd7yko