<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:25 PM, PY2SEX - Alex <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:py2sex@gmail.com">py2sex@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
how can I tell that to the software? Make it ignore mults for other bands and just focus on that band I wanna send my logs for.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Alex,</div><div><br></div><div>First, chasing multipliers in the WPX contest is a big mistake. The best way to make points and multipliers in WPX is to run stations as fast as you can to make as many QSOs as possible.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But if you insist on calculating accurate multipliers right now, instead of after the contest, well, Win-Test does support switching the contest category from single-band 15 to single-band 10 in the middle of a contest.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, there is away to do this, but it takes many steps. Win-Test allows you to create a Cabrillo file with 10m QSOs only, then you import this Cabrillo file into a new WT4 log. After the contest, you have to create a new Cabrillo file and copy 15m QSOs lines from the old Cabrillo file into the new 10m Cabrillo file.</div>
<div><ol><li>First, save your current window positions as the new default, since they will be lost in this process:<br><b>Options | Windows | Default layout ... | Use the current layout | OK</b></li><li><b>COPYLOG</b> [Enter] to silently save a copy of your current log, so that no QSOs will be lost</li>
<li><b>WRITELOG</b> [Enter]</li><li>Check Cabrillo and click the <b>[Options ...]</b> button</li><li>Click the <b>[All]</b> button to exclude all bands<br></li><li>Click once on <b>10m</b> to exclude all <i>but</i> the 10m band</li>
<li>Click <b>OK</b></li><li>Click <b>OK</b> again. This will write a Cabrillo file with 10m QSOs only (bug: the header will still say BAND: ALL)</li><li><b>CLOSE</b> [Enter]</li><li><b>File | Import Cabrillo</b></li><li>
Click the <b>[Browse]</b> button and select the Cabrillo file saved in step 8.</li><li>To be extra safe, change the output file to a <b>new name</b>, like WPX-2011-10M.WT4</li><li>Check <b>Load the log after import</b> and press <b>OK</b></li>
<li>Your new 10m-only log will be loaded. Verify this by looking at the summary window <b>Alt-S.<br></b>(If this were CW, all the CW messages would have to be reprogrammed at this point.)</li><li>When the contest is over, type <b>WRITELOG</b>. If your log has only 10m QSOs in it, the header of the Cabrillo file will be fixed to say BAND: 10M. The file name will be WPX-2011-10M.LOG or similar. You should select to output a Summary file too, to save your claimed score info. Press <b>OK</b>.</li>
<li><b>CLOSE</b> [Enter]</li><li><b>OPEN</b> [Enter]</li><li>Select the <b>old copy</b> of the log (.WT4) saved in step 2. The name will be something like WPX-2011_201103262208.WT4</li><li>Repeat steps 3 to 8, this time selecting output of the <b>15m QSOs only</b></li>
<li>Open both WPX-2011-10M.LOG and WPX-2011_201103262208.LOG with Wordpad in two windows, and copy and paste the 15m QSO lines from the 15M Cabrillo file into the 10M Cabrillo file, right after the header records.</li><li>
Save the new file (make sure it still says BAND: 10M in the header).</li><li>Submit the Cabrillo file. Your 15m QSOs will not count towards your score, but the guys you worked there will still get credit for working you, instead of a "not in log".</li>
</ol><div>73,</div></div><div>Bob, N6TV</div></div><br>