[WT-support] QTCs in WAE

[Ed, GW3SQX]

I was happily using the latest Win-test in WAE CW at the weekend, making 
QSOs and receiving QTCs, mainly from the USA.  Having taken a few hours 
sleep on Friday night, I went back to the shack, to find that Window XP 
had crashed with a "serious error" and had restarted Windows.

I had left Win-test running, and had to restart it -- of course there 
was no WT4 file.  But having taken the precaution of having Win-test 
save a BAK file every 15 minutes, I just loaded up the latest one, and 
found all my QSOs intact.  I was however surprised to find that all my 
QTCs had vanished, and spent several puzzling minutes pestering non-EU 
stations to send QTCs when they had already sent me the full complement.

It seems that QTCs are stored elsewhere, i.e. not the BAK file, and 
perhaps they have to be loaded up separately.  I can't find anything in 
the wiki about this.  At the end of the contest the current log file 
contains QSOs up to the crash but with no QTCs, and then the QSOs and 
QTCs from that point intact.

Once I knew what had happened, I could work out reasonably well from the 
log which were the stations who had already sent me QTCs, but obviously 
I don't now have details.  I see there are QTC files in the WT main 
directory, so is there a way of retrieving the full log (or just the 
QTCs) at a point just before the crash?  Then I could reconstruct the 
Cabrillo file from the "before" and "after" segments.

Is this a bug?  I would have thought that at least the BAK file could 
contain a flag for Win-test to say to the user that here are QTCs to be 
loaded from another file -- refer to the wiki.  Anyway, a solution would 
gain me some extra points, and restore them to the QTC senders who will 
not otherwise get credit.

73,  Ed
GW3SQX (GW7O)