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Re: [WriteLog] A Learning Experience in the WAE CW Contest

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Subject: Re: [WriteLog] A Learning Experience in the WAE CW Contest
From: robert beaudoin <wa1fcn@charter.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:23:42 -0500
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    Good Afternoon Keith and Jamie

        I believe there is no more writelog.ini ??  so what file did you guys  put  AutoSave in ?

                73   BoB WA1FCN

On 8/14/2023 2:11 PM, Keith Beebe W3KB wrote:
Jamie NS3T

Highly appreciate that information.

In looking into the current HELP section of Writelog:   the AutoSaveCount 
parameter should now be in the [ENTRY] part of the .INI file and Not in the 
[CONFIGURATION] Section.

I took your advice to look into it and ***There is indeed a note that as of 
Version 12.29 if such a parameter was in the [CONFIGURATION] Section it is 
removed and now placed in the [ENTRY] section***

I am running the very latest Version 12.73F.

Therefore I have simply added In the [ENTRY] section of the .ini file:

[ENTRY]
AutoSaveCount=1

Let’s see how this works out.

Thanks !

Keith W3KB


From: Jamie Dupree <jamie.dupree@verizon.net>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2023 10:01 AM
To: Keith Beebe W3KB <keith@w3kb.net>; WriteLog Reflector 
<writelog@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] A Learning Experience in the WAE CW Contest

Keith -

You can set Writelog to save your log after every 'x' QSO, so you don't have to 
rely on the journal file.  I have my log save after every QSO, just in case.  
It is done in the background, automatically, and does not cause any problems 
with my operating system.

This is an old item that I saved on how to do it.  You should check to see if 
this has changed over the years

- Paste this line into the [Configuration] section of the writelog.ini:

AutoSaveCount=1

This ensures the log will be saved after every entry. If you don't want it to 
save that often, just increase the number.

73 Jamie NS3T


On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 09:29:41 AM EDT, Keith Beebe W3KB 
<keith@w3kb.net<mailto:keith@w3kb.net>> wrote:



I am a WriteLog contesting software user.

I was operating in the weekend's Worked All Europe (WAE) CW contest and had 110 
QSOs and 25 QTCs (Messages) as of early Saturday morning. I had planned to 
operate all weekend.

All of a sudden there were multiple electrical power "Blips" (rapid On-Off)  that 
happened.  That "crashed" the computer logging the contest.

When I got back in operation I noticed my 110 contacts were still in the log 
but my QTC's were not.  What's going on?

I had to drop out of the WAE CW contest because my QTC's were gone and the 
Writelog software now thought I was back to QTC #1.  Could not realistically 
send another QTC because the content tracking of the specific messages and 
their composition plus the QTC numbers were gone.

Writelog does indeed have a safety mechanism for such situations in that it has what they 
call a "journal" backup file in case things like power outages happen.  It 
makes a journal of the log during a contest.

However, here's the part of that operation that I missed.  "These changes (QTCs) are 
Not written to the journal file and Cannot be recovered if you exit or crash without 
saving your log."

For this specific contest Writelog does not automatically backup QTCs during the logging 
process.  It recommends periodically Manually saving the log during the contest. Well, I 
didn't do that and of course along comes the power "blips".

I should have looked closer to Writelog's setup instructions for this specific 
contest.

At least I now know what happened and now know what to do in the future 
specifically for the WAE CW contest.

Keith W3KB










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