Visual Dupesheet

Example Visual Dupesheet

The Visual Dupesheet is a quick way to determine if a station is a dupe without having to enter the callsign in the program. The calls already worked will be indexed much like a paper dupesheet that is organized by callarea and suffix. The Visual Dupesheet is especially useful for short, high speed contests like the NA Sprint.

Each VFO/Bandmap has it's own Visal Dupesheet. The VFO A sheet displays all of the contacts for the band your VFO A is set to. VFO B does the same for whatever your VFO B is set to even if you don't (or cannot) use VFO B. This has nothing to do with what your worked on which VFO.
The columns signify call areas. If a call area exceeds the number of calls that will fit it will overlap into an adjacent column with some dash lines to differentiate.
Each call area is sorted by suffix.
To see the dupe sheet for any band, set your radio to that band.
To check for a dupe, first look for the call area column, then look up the suffix, then the prefix.
If you don't want both windows open, close one, position the other where you want it and then Tool/Save Window Positions.

The next time you start the program only one window will open.

Unless you can copy RTTY in your head, you do not need the visible dupesheet for RTTY contests. Obviously RTTY calls will tell you they are dupes or not as soon as they print.
The Visual Dupesheet can hold a maximum of 300 stations per band. Going above this limit will give an error message.
There are no mouse assignments or menus in this dialog.

What is the usefulness of the Visual Dupesheet?

By Steve, N2IC

First, let me say what this feature is not: It is NOT intended to be a step towards paper (or electronic) dupe sheet submission. A paper dupe sheet is an obsolete artifact of the pre-computer logging era.

Now, I'll be perfectly honest about the utility of the Visible Dupesheet. I have been a user of TRLog for many years, as well as a fan of the NA Sprint contest. To do very well in an extremely fast-paced contest, like the NA Sprint, you have to minimize the amount of non-productive time. Any time you are not actually making a QSO is non-productive time. As you tune around a band, looking for new stations to work, you need a really fast way to determine if a station that you hear is a dupe. The fastest way to do this is to use only your brain. Some contesters have an amazing ability to keep their dupesheet completely "in their head". For the rest of us, we typically reach for the keyboard and type the call into the entry window. As soon as you do this, N1MM Logger instantly tells you whether it's a dupe. Excellent. However, some of the NA Sprint operators who use TRLog have found an even faster way to check for a dupe - using TRLog's Visible
Dupesheet feature. As you tune the band, you keep your eyes focused on the Visible Dupesheet. It becomes second nature to scan the Visible Dupesheet. When you hear a non-dupe that you want to call, you don't even have to enter the call in the Entry Window, yet. Just hit the Enter key. If he/she comes back to you, you now have time to enter his/her call and exchange.

Obviously, in a contest where you work many, many stations on each band, this feature won't work - it takes too long to scan the Visible Dupesheet when it is crowded with calls. However, this is not the case with the NA Sprint. The winners work no more than 150 stations per band, making the Visible Dupesheet an ideal way to dupe check.