Log4OM

Hi, can't get this feature to work. I keep duping guys! I have the contest all set up with the begin and end date/time in. It's keeping track of my qso's in the auto generate qso number.

When I tick the "Search previous qso in this contest only," I can punch in any qso that I've just made, but it will not alert me. When I un-tick it, it brings up any previous qso ever made.

Thanks

Brian

Hi Brian, I will check this report tomorrow for issues.
Thanks for reporting

Hi Guys. I have experienced the same thing today. When I have the "Search previous QSO in this contest only" checked, it will not find duplicates already worked with in the contest date/time parameters, or anytime for that matter.

If that is not checked, it will display any previous logged entries, regardless of dates, which is to be expected. So for now I am leaving that unchecked for the contest. Then I have to check the dates to confirm whether I have worked that station during the contest, or before.

Thanks guys!

Doug
W7DRM

I've found a small "logical" flaw in this field.

I'm explaining:
i'm setting the query to DB using:

qsoDate >= date of contest start
TimeON >= time of contest start
qsoDate <= date of contest end
timeOFF <= time of contest end

Now, imagine a QSO made at 2014/03/15 at 12:00 ended the same day at 12:01

Contest starts: 09:00 of 2014/03/13
Contest ends: 10:00 of 2014/03/16

We have:
qsoDate (2014/03/15) >= contest start (2014/03/13) OK
TimeOn (12:00) > contest start time (09:00) OK
qsoDate (2014/03/15) >= contest end (2014/03/16) OK
timeOFF (12:01) <= contest end time (10:00) NO!

We all know that contest end time is related to the same END DATE, and the QSO is in the range, but this field (TimeOFF) is simply a TIME and this would cause troubles because this field, took as a single field, fails the query.

So i have REMOVED in the next version the TIME CHECKS.
Well, but what's happens if i make a QSO with a station, BEFORE contest start, in the same day?

Here we have a fields, already in place, that says: CONTEST (true/false).
This field is driven by the CONTEST MODE set in Log4OM. All contest qso are marked with field CONTEST = TRUE
The QSO made before contest start is NOT marked "CONTEST", so this will help us even without using hours.
In that case we suppose there are no 2 contests in the same date range... i think this cannot happens often...

Thanks for spotting this issue.

73
Daniele IW3HMH

Thanks for addressing this Daniele! Next contest this coming weekend! But can make it work as long as we know the issue.

Thanks!

Doug
W7DRM

I hope we will have new release in time for contest, if tests goes well (i probably release last beta Tomorrow)

73
Daniele

Excellent. Would love to get it.

Thanks!
Doug