[Dx-qsl] Fw: [CQ-Contest] VY1JA Log repairs and E-QSL

2002年1月20日 00:51:36 -0600

I'm forwarding this with the permission (and now request) of J., VY1JA, who
originally posted this request to the CQ-Contest reflector. E-QSL is a
means through which he hopes to retrieve lost contacts and correct errors
now present in his records; please help him if you can!
73,
Bridget, KS4YT
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Allen, VY1JA" <[email protected]>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] VY1JA Log repairs and E-QSL
 Hi All,
 Many of you know that a while back my computer crashed and my log had to be
rebuilt from bits of salvaged data. I lost about 30000 QSOs and the rest of
my log has errors regarding dates, times, and in a few cases, the band or
frequency.
I am in the process of putting the repaired log on e-QSL.cc and will be
correcting the log, based mainly on feedback from the amateur community. I
have had some excellent feedback already and have been able to correct whole
sections of the log for date.
When you receive an e-QSL from me, please take the time to answer it. It is
especially important to me that you let me know if the e-QSLs are wrong by
date, time, band or the callsign I was using.
I am sending the e-QSLs out as only asVY1JA QSO's, but many of the contacts
were made using special prefixes or calls, Please let me know if the
contacts were made with a special call such as ??1JA, or the VY?JA, VY 50JA,
or similar calls using VY1RAC. For example I may have used XK1JA, VY7JA, or
CK1RAC
If you have the time to send e-QSL's for ALL of your contacts made with me
over the years, it will help me get the log data corrected. Your input can
help me get things fixed for a lot of other people.
 Please be patient with me as this will take a few months to complete due to
personal time constraints, and I will be sending e-QSL's out until the
project is complete.
 Also, if anyone has had a similar problem and has written a program that
can read through files that were recovered from cross linked files with
mixed
log and other data in them, it would help. I have about 150 such files to
extract the log data from, and may be able to get a good part of those
30,000 QSOs back.
 Thank you all for any help you can provide, and I apologize for any
inconvenience this causes you.
 J., VY1JA
 [email protected]
 CP20kw