By Laptop crash i lost the log freom yesterday actoivation of HB/SG-048,
if yu had contact with me, pse send qso data to my E-Mail.
zaehner@ims-consulting.ch or via reflector
many tks for help!
HB9BCK Albert
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Well Done Robert. Fantastic. No idea how you managed to do that. 73 de Paul M0CQE.
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Nothing easier, hi … DM/SX-045 log lost
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As Heinz mentioned, upload a dummy log file for the date/summit ref and you can see who posted a chaser log at the top of the log page. Seemingly many did including you!
73, Robert
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It is Way Beyond me, Robert. I am much to old to understand how modern Computers work. 73 de Paul M0CQE.
It’s very, very simple.
For every activation logged, there is a button “Show who chased me”. But until you load a log you cannot press the button. So you upload a fake log for the activation and summit so you can press the button.
It looks through all the chaser logs to see who logged a chase of the activator’s call sign on the day in question and lists them.
It also looks through all the chaser logs to see who logged a chase of the activator’s summit on the day in question and lists them.
So you get a list of every chase of the activator and the summit and a list of every chase of the summit and the activator for the day in question.
Why 2 lists? Because they are not necessarily the same lists (typos, errors).
From those 2 lists you can make an activation log for the claimed chases. Normally the activator remembers the chasers when confronted with a partial list. They can then delete the fake activation log and upload the re-manufactured log. Job done.
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Many thanks Andy. Very well written even I can understand now what happens.
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Interesting, Paul, what were those computers that you were familiar with?
On my side it was the IBM 1130 with Assembly language (very popular for debugging and patching …) and Fortran (with subroutines in assembly language).
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Many thanks, Thats great! 73 Albert HB9BCK
Sorry Heinz, I have never used a computer other than to access a few internet sites such as QRZ.com, DX Cluster, WWFF, Pota, Radio Arcala, RSGB and of course, SOTA.
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Ok Paul, when you wrote “too old to understand how modern computers work”, I thought you had only used computers in your younger years, like me, hi.
73 cu, Heinz
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Paul is the older computer.
Before we had micro computers, a computer was a person.
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Would you be okay with turning this around and saying a person was also a “computer” before, hi.
By the way, my very first “computer”, bought in 1972, was an HP-35 pocket calculator, a wonderful tool to support the grey cells and also a welcome replacement for the worn-out logarithm bible …
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…and slide rule
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Yes, of course, you are right, this also marked the end of the long and great era of slide rules and slide disks - what a technological change, even in retrospect.
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Apart from the NiCd pack dying, I’ll bet if you still have your HP-35 it will still be working.
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Yes, Andy, I consider that to be entirely possible.
Unfortunately, from a collector’s perspective, after 10 years I have parted with the HP-35 in favor of the smaller/lighter HP-11C for myself and family members. All of these HP-11Cs with matching soft cases show no signs of age even after more than 40 years. And changing the battery couldn’t be easier (3x 1.5 V button cells).
Today, such a product might be called sustainable, hi.
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I keep thinking of buying an HP16C (Programmers calc) Heinz. I wanted one 40 years but had to make do with a Casio unit instead when I was a young man just starting out in work. I have the solar powered one from 1983 that still works and also another Casio that still works and has the original 1988 vintage 2032 Lithium cell in it !
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