[Tlf-devel] Problems noted during Sweepstakes

[Ben Coleman NJ8J]

I used tlf 1.1 pre for November Sweepstakes last weekend.  While 
operating, I noticed some glitches

The Sweepstakes input parsing has some problems.  I consistently noted 
that a precedence of U would get dropped if the fields were not entered 
in order (I often found myself entering in the order Prec Check Section 
Serial, as I would fill in Prec Check Section while listening to QSOs 
before I was answered, then fill in the serial when I finally got the 
QSO).  Precs A and B wouldn't be dropped, prec U was.  I suspect the 
prec code was incompletely updated when U was added.  I haven't yet had 
a chance to look at the code.

I also had a couple or three QSOs where the serial and prec got dropped. 
 I'm not yet sure what lead to this.

:rescore seems to have some problems.  At one point, I had 100 QSOs on 
80, but noticed after doing a couple of :rescores that it was showing 98 
or 97 (doing another :rescore might change it).  I exited tlf and 
re-entered, and the 80 meter count was back to 100, so this doesn't 
appear to be a loss of QSOs, just that :rescore is missing some QSOs 
that aren't missed when tlf is started up.

Be nice if we can get fixes before SS Phone.  I'll see if I can get time 
to look at the code.

Ben
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