docs(wiki): cover the recent work, with worked examples
Asked for the wiki to catch up, and to be explicit — examples rather than
descriptions. New page and six rewritten sections.
Recent QSOs and Filters, the page named in the request: the right-click menu is
now a table of what every entry does, and the filter builder has five worked
multi-criteria filters written out field by field, each ending in what you then
do with the result. Including the distinction that prompted it — "export
selected" takes the highlighted rows, "export filtered view" takes every QSO the
filter matched, and after building a filter it is the second one you want. Plus
the traps: ADIF date format, and "is empty" not being "equals N".
Connections (new): the page for a settings section that had none. What OpsLog
listens to and sends, which outbound row another logger actually wants — a
logger asking for "WSJT-X UDP" discards a bare ADIF record — the custom-message
triggers with their placeholder lists, three worked examples, and the port-clash
warning that produced this week's CAT-drop report.
Amplifiers and Switches: the generic HTTP relay in full — per-relay URLs, the
pattern form, {relay}, {relay-1} and {value} with what each one sends — relay
automatic control with a four-relay antenna-switch example, and the bench power
supply including why OpsLog writes only its output.
Rotators: the two new native types (SPID with the Rot1Prog/Rot2Prog choice,
DCU-1), two-rotor setups, and that Test only reads the heading on the types
where it does.
Awards: the US county database, and the difference between the automatic fill
(blanks only) and the right-click re-derive (replaces) — with the Connecticut
planning regions, which is the case that needs it.
QSL Management: QSL_VIA against QSL_SENT_VIA/QSL_RCVD_VIA, why an import shows E
on every Log4OM record, and that V counts as confirmed.
Troubleshooting: the three field reports of the last few days, by symptom.
Every [[link]] checked to resolve.
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**Rescan** re-pulls the logbook and recomputes — it picks up fresh LoTW / QRZ /
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eQSL confirmations (see [[QSL Management]]).
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## US counties (CQ USA-CA)
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A county award needs a county on every US QSO, and most logs do not have one:
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neither the callsign nor the prefix carries it, and few operators send it.
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**Settings → US counties** downloads the FCC **ULS** database — every US
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amateur licence with its address — and builds a local index of callsign →
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county + grid. It is a few hundred megabytes to fetch and takes a few minutes;
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once built it works offline and needs no key.
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With it downloaded:
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- A **new US QSO** gets its county (and grid, if you have none) filled in
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automatically — **only where the field is empty**. A value you or QRZ
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supplied is never overwritten: the ZIP-derived county is about 98 % right and
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the one you logged is usually better.
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- **Right-click → Update US county from the ULS database** re-derives the
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county of the selected contacts and **replaces** what is stored. That is the
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deliberate opposite of the automatic pass, and it is the way to correct
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counties already in the log — see the Connecticut note below. Contacts
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outside the US, and callsigns the database does not hold, are left alone.
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The entry only appears once the database is downloaded.
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### Connecticut
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Connecticut **abolished its eight counties** for statistical purposes in 2022;
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the Census Bureau replaced them with nine **planning regions**. CQ USA-CA still
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uses the old county names, so OpsLog maps a Connecticut address back to its
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legal county.
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If your database was built by an older OpsLog, the Settings panel says so and
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offers a refresh — a download date alone cannot show it, because a database
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fetched yesterday by an older version still holds the wrong Connecticut
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counties. After refreshing, use the right-click update on your CT contacts.
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