[WT-support] Cabrillo error with WT4

[Tõnno Vähk]

2 x MP mark V, no sub VFOs involved, no memory tune involved.

Both radios proper CAT, bandmaps show correct freq

MK2R+

WT4

 

The problem is that WT creates a situation that log shows correct band and that band is different from the actual frequency band that will be printed into Cabrillo.

 

That means, people could lose MANY QSOs plus penalties in CQWW if that happens because they never know that happened. They never know Cabrillo is wrong as they don't check that line by line vs log!

 

I ONLY found it very luckily because I had zero QSOs on 10 meters but when I created Cabrillo, corrected typos and imported it back to WT to create final ADIF in order to import to my log program I noticed one QSOs had appeared on 10m.

 

This should be addressed. Band cannot be different in log than the frequency behind it.

 

73

tonno

 

From: support-bounces at win-test.com [mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com] On Behalf Of Bob Wilson, N6TV
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:19 AM
To: support at win-test.com
Subject: Re: [WT-support] Cabrillo error with WT4

 

Are you using two radios, or two receivers in one radio?  As you probably know, there's currently no way to dedicate the secondary radio window to a Sub-Receiver (or a VFO B).

 

If you have two radios, is it also computer controlled?  Is the frequency display (of both VFOs) accurate in the Radio 1 / Radio 2 band map windows?  What type of radios are you using?  

 

Win-test always uses the frequency of VFO A in the log; perhaps you were using VFO B to make the QSO on the secondary radio, and VFO A was stuck on 28450?  Or, if you're using an FT-1000MP or similar, and it is in "Memory Tune" mode, Win-Test will incorrectly log all QSOs  based on the value of VFO A, not the "memory tune" frequency that you see on the radio.

 

These are just some possible explanations, to give you some things to check.

 

73,

Bob, N6TV

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Tõnno Vähk <Tonno.Vahk at gildbankers.com> wrote:

Hi,

 

I was just making cabrillo from my SAC SSB log where I used WT4 for the first time.

 

Something very strange happened.

 

For 3 QSOs out of 770 WT put WRONG BAND into Cabrillo.

 

Those are all 2nd radio QSOs. The band is correct in the log file BUT when I open Edit > Edit Date, Time... and check the frequency then it is wrong.

 

For example - I made zero QSOs on 10 meters but my QSO with 8S0C which is on 20m and also shows 20m in the log (counted correctly in Summary, etc) has frequency 28450 attached to it and thus Cabrillo shows 28450!

 

This is 1st time I used SO2R with one computer and Secondary Radio Window. 

 

It is obvious that there is one very serious bug there - frequency is not taken correctly and even when band is recorded correctly frequency is taken probably at the wrong time or sth.

 

I have 3 QSOs wrong and I cannot quite understand where this wrong frequency comes from. It looks like old frequency. It looks like that maybe the Secondary Radio Window freezes the frequency on the time when you start entering sth to callsign field and does not actually take the frequency at the time when Enter is pressed, can this be it???

 

I can send the log file if you wish. It is also strange that when frequency is 28450 then log shows 20m!

 

73

Tonno

Es5tv

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