[MacLoggerContest] Unassisted Contesting Questions

[Don Agro]

Hi David,

On 2011-03-08, at 12:25 PM, David Kaplan wrote:


> I entered the ARRL DX contest last weekend, as a single-op unassisted.

> 

> According to Sean, manager of the ARRL Contest Branch, operating unassisted means no lookups, which was easy. All I did was disable the QRZ.com online lookup.

> 

> However, using the Contest Helper panel gave me a problem. The dups were great, but I could not stop the K5ZD lookups... both check boxes, "Lookup" and "Display QSO" had no function I could find. 


As with most of the controls in MacLoggerDX, if you hover the mouse over the check box the function is revealed...

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> Both dups AND contesters calls appeared with the boxes unchecked.


Yes they will.


> Also, the flags continued to appear where the QSLs would have shown up, giving me the country name.

> 

> 1) Am I misunderstanding something about the boxes on the contest helper panel


Yes.


> 2) Any way to stop the flags?


Not that I am aware of, but really, the prefix tells you what country it is.


> That would make me truly unassisted.

> 

> Thanks.

> 

> 73,

> 

> David, WA1OUI


73 de VE3VRW Don Agro