I think people operating in contests should be intelligent enough to know what to do. And QRZ isn't the only data source.
If the other party didn't send the grid, why would it be in ALL.TXT? WSJT-X doesn't do any looking up -- otherwise what is my tool for? If you don't find the tool useful, then don't use it. 73, -- Dave Slotter, W3DJS <https://www.qrz.com/db/W3DJS> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 12:49 PM tom <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave > > Remember to remind people not to use it in contests - if there is a > mismatch between what is sent over the air and what is recorded in QRZ - > points will be lost. > > If the grid is blank it highlights the user need to take action - usually > checking all.txt and not grabbing qrz.com data. > > Personally think it’s a really bad idea to mess around like this - leave > the wsjx adi file alone - warn/report by all means but ‘on the fly’ changes > are not good. > > Tom > GM8MJV > > > > On 8 Mar 2021, at 15:13, Dave Slotter, W3DJS <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Fellow hams and users of WSJT-X: > > I am pleased to announce the creation and immediate availability of > version 1.1.1 of a Python application to address some of the deficiencies > of WSJT-X not providing a method to automatically look up callsigns and > missing grid squares and fill them in. > > Changes: > * Added support for FREE data source callook.info > * Enhanced session and error handling > > This Python application has been successfully tested with Python3 and a > Raspberry Pi, although may easily be used on other Linux systems with > Python3. It has not been tested with Mac, but should probably work there as > well. It has not been tested under Windows. > > The script has passed scrutiny by Pylint and Flake8. > > *Prerequisites*: Requests and Watchdog Python libraries. > *Environment variables*: If using QRZ as a data source QRZ_USERNAME and > QRZ_PASSWORD to be filled in with your authentication tokens from QRZ. > > Additional backends such as HamQTH may be added in the future if there is > demand. > > *To use:* download the script, and if using QRZ as a data source, set the > QRZ_USERNAME and QRZ_PASSWORD environment variables and start up WSJT-X and > the script. It will run automatically. > > CAUTION: do not independently edit the wsjtx_log.adi while this script is > running, or bad things will happen. This script only works when WSJT-X is > appending its ADIF log file with new entries, nothing else. > > The Python script, update_wsjtx_log.py may be located and downloaded from > here: > > https://github.com/dslotter/ham_radio_scripts/blob/main/update_wsjtx_log.py > > -- > Dave Slotter, W3DJS <https://www.qrz.com/db/W3DJS> > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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