[WriteLog] After contest log entry problem

Sat Jan 14 19:51:58 EST 2017

Summary of problem: 
Lost writelog.WL file got ARRL 10 Mtr contest. I had sent Cabrillo file 
to ARRL and had a printed copy of log before I lost .WL file. But I 
thought I needed to rebuild the lost .WL file to submit my contest contacts 
into LoTW. But I forgot all that TQSL can do...

Solutions: I remembered that I had a copy of my Cabrillo file in my email 
outbox so I retrieved that file and saved it. I did not remember that the 
 TQSL program accepts this file as input to TQSL signing and submitting 
into the LoTW system, so my first goal was achieved without having to 
recreate my .WL file.

I found an old DOS program called LogConv which took the Cabrillo file and 
turned it into an .ADI file.
It cost 5ドル for you to take it out of Demo mode. In my testing of the 
output, the result file looked ok but when I ran it as input into Writelog, the 
resulting displayed Qso were missing the state/number info. 

I tried a few diff file formats of the Cabrillo file but the LogConv put 
out the same results AND Writelog never did import the state/number field 
correctly. So I stopped trying to create the .WL source file since I 
already had a .ADI file generated by TQSL that worked for me. 

I resolved to better backup my log files and submit my LoTW files more 
often.
Some people submit to LoTW a few hours after the contest!

Thanks to the hams that submitted suggestions.
73 Mike N5MT 