[Dxspider-support] Interesting Problem with spots format and N1MM

[Iain Philipps]

Question:

Who set this “de facto standard”, exactly?

 

 

73 de WR3D

 

 

From: Dxspider-support [mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk] On Behalf Of Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support
Sent: 23 January 2022 05:25
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Cc: Björn Ekelund
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Interesting Problem with spots format and N1MM

 

DXLog used to have exactly the same problem and we ended up redesigning the spot parsing just because of this. 

 

DXSpider omits the colon after the spotter's callsign if it is longer than 7 characters. As I have pointed out to Dirk, 

I think this is a very unfortunate deviation from the de facto standard formatting of spots. Many software software 

rely on the colon being there and some of them are no longer maintained.

 

Björn SM7IUN

 

Den lör 22 jan. 2022 kl 14:28 skrev Rob Harrison via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>:

Hi,

I am trying to do the BARTG RTTY SPRINT today, but noticed that many spots are being filtered that should not be in N1MM

If you look at the attached image you will see spots greyed out ((filtered) that shouldn't be. I have noticed that every spot that N1MM deems OK has a : (colon) at the end...but spots that don't have the colon such as OH9GHV are filtered...... looks like DXspider doesn't have room for the colon.

Help

73 de Rob G4UJS

 

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