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Revision History
Rev 3.14
* F7 (Check Partial) now sorts partial list and highlights calls
worked on the current band. - Thanks K5ZD.
* Two bugs which crash the program: F8 with no TNC, and WA8ABC/QRP
entered as a call. Both fixed.
* Program now properly senses mono and color video adapters. If both
are installed, mono is used. If color only is installed, color monitor
is used, but written black and white. A future rev will allow user to
specify b/w or real color.
Rev 3.15
* ALT M, for Multiplier Check Sheet added.
* Lingering DUPE information now wipes with CTL W in call field.
Rev 3.16
* Check Country now displays the name of the country in text at the
bottom of the window. This way the operator knows exactly what
country the program has interpreted the prefix to be. - Thanks K5ZD.
Rev 3.17
* Check Partial accepts a wildcard (*) character. G3FXB can be
found by checking G*F or G3F*B. - Thanks K1KA.
* Specify B/W or COLOR in NAME file.
Rev 4.07 - This a major revision.
* The "hesitation" problem is fixed. Greenleaf confessed and has a new
windows package.
* .RES is no longer used, all restart data is kept in .BIN, a binary
file. Calls, RST, BAND and INFO can all be changed at any point in
the log. It is no longer necessary to edit a text file.
* The startup text file is no longer used, instead a menu driven form is
filled in by the user. This information is kept at the start of the .BIN
file.
* WAE is supported, in all it's complexity. Works for non-EU stations,
mostly works for EU stations. A separate .QTC file is kept.
* WPX is supported, still a little buggy I'm afraid.
* The program now sends morse code. External hardware (a transistor)
required.
* CQWW zones are correct except for W4's. UA9, UA0 find the correct
zone based on suffix. - Thanks YU3EA.
* Two extra tools are provided: R2B and B2R. R2B converts an
existing .RES file to a .BIN format, and B2R converts a .BIN to a
.RES. If you simply can't control yourself and have to use an editor
on your files (like to rubber clock the time column), run R2B, edit
to your hearts content, then B2R it back.
Rev 4.08 - Minor bug fixes.
* F6 now assigned to sending "QRU" in WAE, ANNOUNCE DX reassigned to
ALT F6.
* Serial number now takes 4 digits.
* When editing non-Eu calls in WAE, a trap was hit and program stopped
(ASSERT statement). Now fixed.
* IN QTC screen '-' didn't work right, and F10, 0 (for 10) didn't work,
Now fixed.
* In CW mode, the Information Sheet allows a choice of COM1 or COM2 for
sending.
Rev 4.09 - Many bug fixes.
* Times put back in time field!
* Program crash after: modify call, F5, enter. This is fixed.
* Times in the output logs (from WRITELOG) now read properly.
* The TS940 support had been inadvertantly removed. Now working.
* Flow control for the packet port had been disabled causing some machines
to lose characters.
Rev 4.10 - More bug fixes.
* When editing old calls, time on/off got screwed up. Fixed.
* ALT S now picks up the most recent call for QTC form.
Rev 4.14 - Substantive changes.
* The use of color has changed: in Check Partial, white means needed,
black means worked on this band.
* The startup screen accepts UTC, the 4 continental USA timezones or
any arbitrary offset from UTC. When in USA timezones and daylight
savings in effect, offset to UTC is corrected automatically.
* Real time clock added for convenience.
* In CQWW, spots from packet which are not new band countries, but are new
zone countries (VK6, UA0Y, VO2 etc), are sent to the screen.
* Flow control with packet is now fixed, no more dropped characters.
* F2 and F3 are now swapped: F2 sends report, F3 sends QSL QRZ de CALL.
* At K5ZD's suggestion, several commands are now "text commands"; i.e.,
type in a command in the call field and hit return. Examples are:
QUIT, WRITELOG, BREAKDOWN, SOUND, NOSOUND, WRITECLIST.
* F4 Send His Call.
* F5 Send My CALL.
* F6 Send QSO B4
* F7 Send QRL QSY de CALL, in WAE send QRU (no QTC).
* F8 Check Partial
* ALT F3 Announce DX (when TNC connected)
* ALT F4 Get Packet Spot and QSY TS-940 if connected. Second time:
will QSY TS-940 back.
* ALT F5 Make current frequency the running frequency.
* ALT F7 Send: QRL?
* ALT F9 and F10 now change CW speed
* CW sending keys work while in the multiplier or help windows.
* Scan through the multiplier window with repetitive ALT-M. Other keys
switch back to the main window.
* QTC field now takes 4 digits in EU serial number - Thanks K1VR
Rev 4.17
* Check Partial fixed (again).
* CTL-BS does what CTL-W does, wipe out an entry.
* Fixed the "changed bands, but it didn't take" bug.
Rev 4.18
* New feature: WRITEMULT produces a multiplier checksheet file name.MUL
PRINTMULT sends a multiplier checksheet to the printer.
Tnx W6GO.
Rev 4.27 Incoming packet data is speeded up. No longer looks like 300 baud.
Rev 4.28
* Fixed scoring in WPX - low bands were scored wrong
* DRSI support is "official". Set TNC to yes in startup screen. Inside the
program use the typed commands "DRSI" and "NODRSI" to switch between
DRSI tnc and external TNC on COM1
Rev 4.29
* Off time for WPX and WAE set to 1 hour
* United States not counted as a country in ARRL DX TEST
Rev 5.00 beta This is a major release. Internal data structures are entirely
changed.
* Expanded memory is now supported yielding 16,000 QSO's per megabyte
Install the expansion board per the manufacturers instructions. Then
install the manufacturers EMM.SYS in CONFIG.SYS. CT detects and uses
expanded memory provided EMM.SYS is installed.
* DRSI Packet Adapter (internal TNC for IBM PC's) is supported
Be sure to run TNCTSR-S before starting CT. The TNC driver is
required.
* Limited Multi Single support: Two computers are used.
The run station uses a log named run.bin, the multiplier station
uses a log named mult.bin. Periodically, do a SAVELOG, which dumps
your log directly to a drive A. Move the floppy to the other
computer. Shutdown and restart CT on the second computer.
The log named RUN.BIN will try to find A:MULT.BIN to merge with
when is starts up. Conversely, MULT.BIN will try to find A:RUN.BIN to
merge with. Please note that the partner logs are located on the
FLOPPY DRIVE A. Therfore, YOU MUST HAVE A FLOPPY IN DRIVE A to start!!
MULTI II Instructions:
1. Use two computers selecting M/S.
2. Name one log RUN and select RUN in station field of startup.
3. Name the other log MULT and select MULT in station field of startup.
4. Put formatted floppies in both DRIVE A's of computers.
5. During the test, periodically do a SAVELOG to both computers
6. Exchange the floppies: the RUN computer gets the MULT computer floppy
and vice versa
7. Shutdown both programs (ALT-Q or QUIT), then restart them both.
8. Each computer finds the data to merge with on DRIVE A.
9. If you run out of memory do a WRITEMULT and print the multiplier
chaecksheet, or do a PRINTMULT with printer connected.
10. Start a new log with another name. K1EA can combine your logs
later.
Rev 5.01 beta
* Several bugs that crash the program fixed.
* Time is sampled 18 times per second instead of every pass through
the main loop. This makes comm input faster (4800 used to look like
300 baud).
* Note: DUPESHEET doesn't work in this revision.
Rev 5.02 beta
* WRITELOG does a better job of ARRL output.
Rev 5.03 beta
* Lost cursor problem fixed
* WPX finally gets is right (I hope) when editing prior QSO's
* WPX scoring on low bands fixed
* I seem to have broken control for DRSI TNC ... COM1
is now always enabled for external TNC.
* DUPESHEET fixed. Also, WRITEDUPE does same thing so documentation
matches program behaviour
* WRITEMULT and PRINTMULT write a list of prefixes worked in WPX
* Time off threshold for WPX is now 1 hr (I hope, coded but untested)
tnx KM9P
* The maximum length prefix for WPX has been raised to 7 characters
Rev 5.04 beta
* Fixed time off / time on bug in 5.03.
* In WPX, packet spots are now filtered correctly for prefixes you need.
Had been looking at countries, even in WPX, which is wrong.
* New text command: AUTOSAVE and NOAUTOSAVE. AUTOSAVE causes SAVELOG to
executed every hour automatically (writes to floppy A:). tnx K1VR
* Summary sheets for all four contests are printed
* Super check partial implemented. Key is ALT-U. Requires file
MASTER.LIS which has 13000 calls in 200K and is kept in memory. This
means that conventional memory only has room for about 500 calls.
Thus, super check partial is only useful if you have expanded memory
installed. Super check partial does a linear search of 13,000 calls,
so a hot 286 or 386 is needed for decent performance.
* DRSI support is fixed
* New text command: COMPRESS and NOCOMPRESS, causes 10 columns of calls
per page on dot matrix printers that have compressed mode. If you don't
have a printer that supports compressed mode, use NOCOMPRESS and get
5 columns of call per page withouthe embedded control characters.
Rev 5.00 first offical version sent to registered users
Rev 5.01
* WAE considered all contacts to be outside of EU in all revs of 5.XX.
Fixed now.
Rev 5.02
* CTRL-Z crashed all versions of release 5. Discovered by WN4KKN at
KP2A in WPX CW 1989 !!
* SHIFT F1 used to wipe out memory in F2. Fixed.
* We all have inadvertently changed the wrong cw memory location.
Hitting ESC while updating a memory with SHIFT F1 through SHIFT F7
now leaves the memory unchanged. Also, hitting return before any
text has been entered leaves the old memory contents unchanged.
Rev 5.03
* ARRL VHF QSO Party has been added. Why ?? Because K1EA enjoys that
contest, and so will you if you try it.
* The NAME.ALL and NAME.80 nad NAME.40 showed wrong point values for
WPX, although the summary box and summary sheet are correct. Fixed
now thanks to KM3T.
* R2B used to ASSUME Eastern Standard Time (pretty ethnocentric, eh?)
and screw up times for all Daylight Savings Time. R2B now generic and
fixed.
rev 5.04
* If CT doesn't find a .CTY file in the current directory it now checks
for an environment variable called CTYPATH. In autoexec.bat you can
set CTYPATH by adding a line like: set CTYPATH=c:\logs\cty. This would
point CT to a directory c:\logs\cty to find a .CTY file. Store your
.CTY files there so you don't have to keep a copy of .CTY with each log.
This is an enhancement only and is not required to use CT.
* When using the TAB key to enter the RST field, the cursor
always goes to the S part of RST. RST editing is done in
overstrike mode instead of insert mode
* ALT-X terminates the program just like ALT-Q and QUIT
* Typing a number into the callsign field with no letters causes
the radio to be sent to that frequency, if it is in a contest
ham band. Numbers are padded on the right to form a good
frequency.
Rev 6.00
* Added continuation character for long lines in .CTY file. Place
a & character at the start of additional lines of prefixes for a
country. For example:
Shetlands: 14: GM/s: GM0VR,GM0CYJ,GM0ERM,GM3RFR,GM3SJA;
& GM3STU;
& GM3TSG,GM3TST,GM3WCH,GM3XFK,GM3XOQ;
& GM3ZET,GM3ZNM,GM4AGX,GM4DQD,GM4GPN;
& GM4GPP,GM4GQD,GM4GQM,GM4IPK/A,GM4JAB;
& GM4JVC,GM4LBE,GM4LER,GM4PXG,GM4SRU;
& GM4SSA,GM4SWU,GM4WXQ,GM4YEL,GM4ZET;
& GM4ZHL,GM0ILB;
Rev 6.01
* When a radio is configured in INFORMATION SHEET but a comm channel to the
radio is not opened in the SETUP MENU, any access to the radio fails and
hangs the program. This is now fixed and gives a error message.
Rev 6.02
* The ALT-F key now allows you into the time field of a qso to change the
time.
There is a new text command: FIXDATE to specify the date you want a qso
to have.
RULE 1: Save an original copy of your .BIN file on a floppy and put it
away!!
If you are editing an old log and do not wish to change the date of
a qso, just use the arrow keys, PgUp, PgDn or CTL-G to place the
cursor on the qso of interest. Hit ALT-F, change the time and hit <CR>.
If this is a new QSO or you want to change the date, you must first
tell CT what date you want to use by entering the "FIXDATE" command
in the callsign field. After a FIXDATE dvery QSO, new or old, that you
use ALT-F on will get this new date.
Now that you are free to change dates and times, it is possible to
get the log out of time order. This means that the rate meters and
offtime may be wrong or even negative. CT can't do anything about this.
* The ALTQ and ALTX keys let you out of the program, but not before you
are asked to confirm.
* The function keys now work while you are in the packet window.
* '?' is now a valid character to type in the call field. A call with
an embedded '?' cannot be logged.
* There is a new text command: RMDUPES. It creates a file called NEW.BIN
which identical to the current .BIN file except all the dupes have been
removed. There are two uses for this command.
1) You are a purist and can't stand to see any dupes in the log.
2) You want to cancel a qso after you have worked the guy. Up arrow to
the bad QSO, then change it to a sure dupe (like the QSO before).
AFTER the contest, run RMDUPES and rename NEW.BIN to whatever you like.
* For multi-single operations: ALTY changes a run qso to a mult qso and
vice versa.
* A bug in check partial has been fixed. Calls which were logged then
fixed later were sometimes not found by check partial. KY1H found
this.
Rev 6.05
* ARRL DX from DX side is new and selected in the startup screen in the
contest type form. Select ARDX.
Rev 6.06
* I finally lost control and bought an IC781. Sure enough, support
for it in CT was not quite right. Among other things, the radio talks
to the program every time its frequency changes. CT now checks for
this and knows when the radio has changed bands. CT and other
radios get "out of sync" until you work a guy on the new band.
Rev 6.09
* SAVELOG and AUTOSAVE now write to a file called NAME.SAV instead of
NAME.BIN. We had a couple of cases where SAVELOG saved a file into itself
and destroyed the .BIN file.
* In all versions of 6 and 5 the following bug occured: In an SSB contest
hitting ALT-K seemed to lock up the keyboard. You could type, but nothing
happened. In reality, the program thought it was in KEYBOARD mode (CW)
but didn't display the CW box. Another ALT-K brought you out, but operators
who caught this mode din't know it and usually rebooted. ALT-K is now
inactive in SSB tests. K3NA found this for me.
* Fixed the "disapearing entry" problem when using up arrow from an
incomplete log entry
Rev 6.10
* When using the space bar to check a call, -DUPE-, ______, or *MULT*
now appear. In addition, there are new sounds from the speaker for these
things.
* The breakdown sheet now reports mults by hour for WPX, VHF QSO PARTY and
ARRL DX from DX side correctly
* IC735 support added
* Fixed SEND SPLIT (the minus key (-)) to select the correct sideband
in a phone test
* serial numbers with 0, 1, or 9 are translated into T, A, N when sending
reports
Rev 6.11
* ICOM radios now go to the correct sideband when bandswitched by CT.
Rev 6.12
* A freshly created .BIN file defaults to COM1 for the TNC,
COM2 for the radio if SETUP is not run. This makes radio and tnc
setup in version 6 backwards compatible with version 5.
* Single Unlimited was not remembered correctly across program reboots and
CT would come back up in Singlre Op after shutting down a Single Unlimited
log. Fixed.
Rev 6.14
* The help window is now scrollable.ts, this program uses the file CQWW.CTY.
For DARC WAE, this program uses the file WAE.CTY.
CQ WW QSO Points. When using CT for CQ WW, the information sheet
CALL field is used to compute your country and continent. All points
are computed based on this information. For example, NP4A is counted
as 2 points if your call is K1EA, but is 3 points for G3FXB.
Similarly, ON4UN is 1 point for G3FXB, but 3 points for K1EA.
Frozen Keyboard. If you manage to freeze the keyboard, do not
panic. Hit CTL-ALT-DEL (or push your "RESET" button). Go through
DOS (setting the time to EST again, if necessary) and start again
with CT NAME <CR>. You're back in business.
Band Change Errors. Should you forget to change bands (in the
logging program), after changing bands with your radios, there is no
harm done. Simply go up with your cursor and change bands with
either ALT F1 or ALT F2.
The Real Time Logging File. This logging program creates, and
restarts from, a file called NAME.BIN. This is a binary file and
cannot be edited with a text editor. All changes to the log should
be done from within CT.
Logs by Band. Dumping the full log to disk (WRITELOG), makes six
files: NAME.10, NAME.15, NAME.20, NAME.40, NAME.80, and NAME.160.
These are the separate logs CQ Magazine requires. Do not type
WRITELOG until after the contest. The ARRL DX test requires a single
log for all bands. WRITELOG provides this in the form of NAME.ALL.
A Printed Dupe Sheet. If a sorted list of calls on each band is
needed, use DUPESHEET after the contest. It may take a few minutes
with 5000 or more calls. However, few of us will have to wait that
long. Except in Multi Single operation, for the multiplier station,
do not hit ALT F5 until after the contest. The CT program will
produce a dupe sheet (which is a file called NAME.DUP) for the
individual bands 10 through 160. The NAME.DUP file has control
characters (special instructions) embedded in it to cause dot matrix
printers to go into "compressed mode". If your printer doesn't
support this, you will get lines that wrap around and are hard to
read.
Save and Quit. The program is exited by typing QUIT. This saves
the log to disk and returns you to DOS.
Send Copy of .BIN to K1EA. He is creating a database of "known
good calls." A future version of this program will access using
Check Partial (F8). N2AA and N6AA are also creating large databases
in an attempt to understand the logging error rates we contesters
make. N2AA and N6AA would also like copies of NAME.BIN.
Color. Plain vanilla mono screens and color screens should work
just fine with no operator intervention. The strange and murky world
of LCD displays, black and white emulating color, ATT and other
combinations can cause unexpected results. There are two DOS commands
which set up the display hardware: MODE BW80, and MODE CO80. Try one
of those commands before running the program if the screen doesn't
look reasonable with the default. You can ask the program to try to
force the use of the mono display or, failing that, color display in
black and white by using the switch -m in the command line which
starts CT. For example: CT -m EXAMPLE <CR> starts CT in mono mode.
If you start a color setup with the -m switch on, you will have to
run MODE CO80 after ending the program to get your color back.
Updates. K1EA has donated CT to the Yankee Clipper Contest Club
(YCCC). K1VR has taken over the documentation chores. K1GQ will
publish the manual. KC1EO will maintain the user registration list,
and take care of distribution. K1EA continues to support the code.
The registration fee is being raised to $25. This will get
you a major revision and serious bug fixes for that revision. It also
funds updates and better documentation. In the past, the fee was $8 for
the latest revision, regardless of how often you got an update.
If you use the program, and wish to receive updates, send $25 to:
YCCC
c/o Bill McGowan KC1EO
33 Truell Road
Hollis, NH 03049
U.S.A
The Future. Major features planned for Release 5 and 6 are:
* Support for extended memory, and thus 14,000 QSO's per extra megabyte.
* Support for multi-single and multi-multi operations. This will
require multiple computers and com hardware.
* Support for the DRSI packet controller, which is an IBM compatible
plug-in board. This frees a com port for use in slaving computers,
together in the multi categories.
* Support for ICOM radios.
* Off-line, after the contest, time editing (for those of you who didn't
bring a computer to Aruba).
* On-Line "uniques" and "uniques plus one" checking (with extra memory).
This feature is similar to "Check Partial", but it will check a partial
call against a data base of calls that have been worked in this or
prior DX tests. If you are registered, and send K1EA a copy of your
.BIN file, it will be used to help create the master data base. You
will then be entitled to the data base for use during the next test,
and recognition as a certified good guy.
AFTER THE CONTEST
Exit the Program. Type QUIT <CR> in the call field.
Copy to Floppy. Immediately, before you are tempted to screw up,
copy name.BIN to a:name.BIN (a floppy disk which you should immediately
label and store safely).
Run BreakDown. Enter the program by typing CT name <CR>. Go
through the Information Sheet, using CTL ENTER. Make a breakdown
sheet by typing BREAKDOWN <CR> in the call field. This writes out a
DOS file called name.BRK which contains breakdowns by QSO count and
by rate in each hour and on each band.
Run WriteSum. Make a summary sheet by typing WRITESUM <CR> in the
call field. This writes out a DOS file called name.SUM which contains
a summary for the contest committee.
Run WriteMult. Make a multiplier check sheet by typing WRITEMULT <CR>
in the call field. This writes out a DOS file called name.MUL which
should be printed using the DOS command PRINT name.MUL. This conatins
a multiplier checkoff sheet in compressed form yielding over 300 countries
and 40 zones on one page.
Run WriteLog. Make logs for the contest committee by typing
WRITELOG <CR> in the call field. This writes out a DOS file per band
called name.160, name.80, etc.
HINTS AND KINKS
Check Partial (F8) is the only way to go "search and pounce".
When you hear a call, automatically type 2 or more characters and hit
F7. Unless you typed a commom prefix like G3 or DJ, you will rarely
get more than a few calls to choose from. Calls which have been
worked on the current band are highlighted. You will soon find that
you are automatically hitting 2 characters plus F8 as you tune the
band, just as you automatically used to glance at the checksheet. I
see no time difference between this and the paper method. When you
only hear the suffix, Check Partial has a big advantage over paper
dupe sheets. You won't have to mentally associate a prefix with the
suffix, then find it on the paper.
Try to get the habit of looking at the Check Country display
that comes up after each QSO. This forces you to know what you need
on what band. For example, after working a dozen GW's on 20 and 15,
you "just know" you need a GW on 40, because it's been displayed at
you so often.
For those idiots who answer your CQ with only the last two letters
of their call, enter those two letters and CTL-A to place the cursor
at the begining of the callfiled.
PACKETCLUSTER (TM) USERS
This program should make DX spotting easier for single ops who
wish to contribute multipliers without taking any. Tell your
PacketCluster (TM) SysOp to exclude you from getting DX spots.
Naturally, multi single and single op plus packet types can use the
incoming spots too.
REVISION HISTORY
Rev 3.14
* F7 (Check Partial) now sorts partial list and highlights calls
worked on the current band. - Thanks K5ZD.
* Two bugs which crash the program: F8 with no TNC, and WA8ABC/QRP
entered as a call. Both fixed.
* Program now properly senses mono and color video adapters. If both
are installed, mono is used. If color only is installed, color monitor
is used, but written black and white. A future rev will allow user to
specify b/w or real color.
Rev 3.15
* ALT M, for Multiplier Check Sheet added.
* Lingering DUPE information now wipes with CTL W in call field.
Rev 3.16
* Check Country now displays the name of the country in text at the
bottom of the window. This way the operator knows exactly what
country the program has interpreted the prefix to be. - Thanks K5ZD.
Rev 3.17
* Check Partial accepts a wildcard (*) character. G3FXB can be
found by checking G*F or G3F*B. - Thanks K1KA.
* Specify B/W or COLOR in NAME file.
Rev 4.07 - This a major revision.
* The "hesitation" problem is fixed. Greenleaf confessed and has a new
windows package.
* .RES is no longer used, all restart data is kept in .BIN, a binary
file. Calls, RST, BAND and INFO can all be changed at any point in
the log. It is no longer necessary to edit a text file.
* The startup text file is no longer used, instead a menu driven form is
filled in by the user. This information is kept at the start of the .BIN
file.
* WAE is supported, in all it's complexity. Works for non-EU stations,
mostly works for EU stations. A separate .QTC file is kept.
* WPX is supported, still a little buggy I'm afraid.
* The program now sends morse code. External hardware (a transistor)
required.
* CQWW zones are correct except for W4's. UA9, UA0 find the correct
zone based on suffix. - Thanks YU3EA.
* Two extra tools are provided: R2B and B2R. R2B converts an
existing .RES file to a .BIN format, and B2R converts a .BIN to a
.RES. If you simply can't control yourself and have to use an editor
on your files (like to rubber clock the time column), run R2B, edit
to your hearts content, then B2R it back.
Rev 4.08 - Minor bug fixes.
* F6 now assigned to sending "QRU" in WAE, ANNOUNCE DX reassigned to
ALT F6.
* Serial number now takes 4 digits.
* When editing non-Eu calls in WAE, a trap was hit and program stopped
(ASSERT statement). Now fixed.
* IN QTC screen '-' didn't work right, and F10, 0 (for 10) didn't work,
Now fixed.
* In CW mode, the Information Sheet allows a choice of COM1 or COM2 for
sending.
Rev 4.09 - Many bug fixes.
* Times put back in time field!
* Program crash after: modify call, F5, enter. This is fixed.
* Times in the output logs (from WRITELOG) now read properly.
* The TS940 support had been inadvertantly removed. Now working.
* Flow control for the packet port had been disabled causing some machines
to lose characters.
Rev 4.10 - More bug fixes.
* When editing old calls, time on/off got screwed up. Fixed.
* ALT S now picks up the most recent call for QTC form.
Rev 4.14 - Substantive changes.
* The use of color has changed: in Check Partial, white means needed,
black means worked on this band.
* The startup screen accepts UTC, the 4 continental USA timezones or
any arbitrary offset from UTC. When in USA timezones and daylight
savings in effect, offset to UTC is corrected automatically.
* Real time clock added for convenience.
* In CQWW, spots from packet which are not new band countries, but are new
zone countries (VK6, UA0Y, VO2 etc), are sent to the screen.
* Flow control with packet is now fixed, no more dropped characters.
* F2 and F3 are now swapped: F2 sends report, F3 sends QSL QRZ de CALL.
* At K5ZD's suggestion, several commands are now "text commands"; i.e.,
type in a command in the call field and hit return. Examples are:
QUIT, WRITELOG, BREAKDOWN, SOUND, NOSOUND, WRITECLIST.
* F4 Send His Call.
* F5 Send My CALL.
* F6 Send QSO B4
* F7 Send QRL QSY de CALL, in WAE send QRU (no QTC).
* F8 Check Partial
* ALT F3 Announce DX (when TNC connected)
* ALT F4 Get Packet Spot and QSY TS-940 if connected. Second time:
will QSY TS-940 back.
* ALT F5 Make current frequency the running frequency.
* ALT F7 Send: QRL?
* ALT F9 and F10 now change CW speed
* CW sending keys work while in the multiplier or help windows.
* Scan through the multiplier window with repetitive ALT-M. Other keys
switch back to the main window.
* QTC field now takes 4 digits in EU serial number - Thanks K1VR
Rev 4.17
* Check Partial fixed (again).
* CTL-BS does what CTL-W does, wipe out an entry.
* Fixed the "changed bands, but it didn't take" bug.
Rev 4.18
* New feature: WRITEMULT produces a multiplier checksheet file name.MUL
PRINTMULT sends a multiplier checksheet to the printer.
Tnx W6GO.
Rev 4.27 Incoming packet data is speeded up. No longer looks like 300 baud.
Rev 4.28
* Fixed scoring in WPX - low bands were scored wrong
* DRSI support is "official". Set TNC to yes in startup screen. Inside the
program use the typed commands "DRSI" and "NODRSI" to switch between
DRSI tnc and external TNC on COM1
Rev 4.29
* Off time for WPX and WAE set to 1 hour
* United States not counted as a country in ARRL DX TEST
Rev 5.00 beta This is a major release. Internal data structures are entirely
changed.
* Expanded memory is now supported yielding 16,000 QSO's per megabyte
Install the expansion board per the manufacturers instructions. Then
install the manufacturers EMM.SYS in CONFIG.SYS. CT detects and uses
expanded memory provided EMM.SYS is installed.
* DRSI Packet Adapter (internal TNC for IBM PC's) is supported
Be sure to run TNCTSR-S before starting CT. The TNC driver is
required.
* Limited Multi Single support: Two computers are used.
The run station uses a log named run.bin, the multiplier station
uses a log named mult.bin. Periodically, do a SAVELOG, which dumps
your log directly to a drive A. Move the floppy to the other
computer. Shutdown and restart CT on the second computer.
The log named RUN.BIN will try to find A:MULT.BIN to merge with
when is starts up. Conversely, MULT.BIN will try to find A:RUN.BIN to
merge with. Please note that the partner logs are located on the
FLOPPY DRIVE A. Therfore, YOU MUST HAVE A FLOPPY IN DRIVE A to start!!
MULTI II Instructions:
1. Use two computers selecting M/S.
2. Name one log RUN and select RUN in station field of startup.
3. Name the other log MULT and select MULT in station field of startup.
4. Put formatted floppies in both DRIVE A's of computers.
5. During the test, periodically do a SAVELOG to both computers
6. Exchange the floppies: the RUN computer gets the MULT computer floppy
and vice versa
7. Shutdown both programs (ALT-Q or QUIT), then restart them both.
8. Each computer finds the data to merge with on DRIVE A.
9. If you run out of memory do a WRITEMULT and print the multiplier
chaecksheet, or do a PRINTMULT with printer connected.
10. Start a new log with another name. K1EA can combine your logs
later.
Rev 5.01 beta
* Several bugs that crash the program fixed.
* Time is sampled 18 times per second instead of every pass through
the main loop. This makes comm input faster (4800 used to look like
300 baud).
* Note: DUPESHEET doesn't work in this revision.
Rev 5.02 beta
* WRITELOG does a better job of ARRL output.
Rev 5.03 beta
* Lost cursor problem fixed
* WPX finally gets is right (I hope) when editing prior QSO's
* WPX scoring on low bands fixed
* I seem to have broken control for DRSI TNC ... COM1
is now always enabled for external TNC.
* DUPESHEET fixed. Also, WRITEDUPE does same thing so documentation
matches program behaviour
* WRITEMULT and PRINTMULT write a list of prefixes worked in WPX
* Time off threshold for WPX is now 1 hr (I hope, coded but untested)
tnx KM9P
* The maximum length prefix for WPX has been raised to 7 characters
Rev 5.04 beta
* Fixed time off / time on bug in 5.03.
* In WPX, packet spots are now filtered correctly for prefixes you need.
Had been looking at countries, even in WPX, which is wrong.
* New text command: AUTOSAVE and NOAUTOSAVE. AUTOSAVE causes SAVELOG to
executed every hour automatically (writes to floppy A:). tnx K1VR
* Summary sheets for all four contests are printed
* Super check partial implemented. Key is ALT-U. Requires file
MASTER.LIS which has 13000 calls in 200K and is kept in memory. This
means that conventional memory only has room for about 500 calls.
Thus, super check partial is only useful if you have expanded memory
installed. Super check partial does a linear search of 13,000 calls,
so a hot 286 or 386 is needed for decent performance.
* DRSI support is fixed
* New text command: COMPRESS and NOCOMPRESS, causes 10 columns of calls
per page on dot matrix printers that have compressed mode. If you don't
have a printer that supports compressed mode, use NOCOMPRESS and get
5 columns of call per page withouthe embedded control characters.
Rev 5.00 first offical version sent to registered users
Rev 5.01
* WAE considered all contacts to be outside of EU in all revs of 5.XX.
Fixed now.
Rev 5.02
* CTRL-Z crashed all versions of release 5. Discovered by WN4KKN at
KP2A in WPX CW 1989 !!
* SHIFT F1 used to wipe out memory in F2. Fixed.
* We all have inadvertently changed the wrong cw memory location.
Hitting ESC while updating a memory with SHIFT F1 through SHIFT F7
now leaves the memory unchanged. Also, hitting return before any
text has been entered leaves the old memory contents unchanged.
Rev 5.03
* ARRL VHF QSO Party has been added. Why ?? Because K1EA enjoys that
contest, and so will you if you try it.
* The NAME.ALL and NAME.80 nad NAME.40 showed wrong point values for
WPX, although the summary box and summary sheet are correct. Fixed
now thanks to KM3T.
* R2B used to ASSUME Eastern Standard Time (pretty ethnocentric, eh?)
and screw up times for all Daylight Savings Time. R2B now generic and
fixed.
rev 5.04
* If CT doesn't find a .CTY file in the current directory it now checks
for an environment variable called CTYPATH. In autoexec.bat you can
set CTYPATH by adding a line like: set CTYPATH=c:\logs\cty. This would
point CT to a directory c:\logs\cty to find a .CTY file. Store your
.CTY files there so you don't have to keep a copy of .CTY with each log.
This is an enhancement only and is not required to use CT.
* When using the TAB key to enter the RST field, the cursor
always goes to the S part of RST. RST editing is done in
overstrike mode instead of insert mode
* ALT-X terminates the program just like ALT-Q and QUIT
* Typing a number into the callsign field with no letters causes
the radio to be sent to that frequency, if it is in a contest
ham band. Numbers are padded on the right to form a good
frequency.