I'm CCing the wsjt developer list so people designing
improvements to wsjt are aware of some of the issues Mac users
face running multi-digital-mode contests.
On 1/3/19 at 7:16 PM, ae...@arrl.net (Bill AE6JV) wrote:
My plan is to run in RTTY with RUMlogNG, which uses CAT to send
and receive RTTY depending on the K3's encode/decode features.
When I switch to FT8, I will export the log from RUMlogNG as an
ADIF and hope it will give me the information about worked
contacts in wsjt-x. When I switch back, I will use the reverse process.
Well, I had a chance to test this procedure this afternoon, and
emerged wounded but not dead in the water. I'm documenting what
I found so others can use the ideas on their systems and I can
remember what I have to do.
wsjt-x does not barf on the ADIF file produced from RUMlogNG's
contest mode. I think it gets the band and call sign, so the
color highlighting "should" keep me from wasting a lot of time
making duplicates.
The RUMlogNG contest mode ADIF import does not deal well with
duplicates, so just importing isn't a good idea. One can edit
the ADIF file to remove the entries passed to wsjt-x which will
let RUMlogNG know about FT8 dups.
However, RUMlogNG doesn't get the exchange data correctly from
the ADIF file, so any calculations of multipliers won't include
the FT8 contacts and you can't generate a full Cabrillo file for
contest submission.
Something makes RUMlogNG color code all these imported QSOs, so
it is easy, if tedious, to delete them.
I think the way I will proceed is to have both programs generate
Cabrillo files and merge them in a text editor for contest
submission. A bit fiddly and error prone, but quite doable
before the contest submission deadline.
Going back to wsjt-x a second time seems to require appending
the second set of RTTY QSOs to the ADIF before starting wsjt-x.
There may be an easier way.
Also, I want to have all the QSOs end up in my main log when all
this is over so I can upload to LotW, check QSL cards received etc.
73 Bill AE6JV
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