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

[Dirk Koopman]

As a special treat. I believe that I have 'fixed' it, in that a colon 
will always be there.

However, as a consequence and because I have just 39 characters to place 
"|DX de EA2ABZ: 10489690.0  EA5FZJ      | <comment>" before the comment, 
And since, generally, long spotter calls and long QRGs and long spotted 
calls never occur at the same time, it should be possible to never cause 
the comment field to move to the right. A very long spotter(8 characters 
+':') and 10GHz+ QRG will offset the rest of those 39 characters by one 
or two spaces. But nearly always, one gets a long spotter and an HF QRG, 
or VHF+ spot QRG and a normal spotter call and I can trade space so that 
the decimal point and the spot stays aligned.

Not that I am OCD, not at all. Absolutely not, no. (I'm glad that I have 
been able to clear that up).
*
BUT - And this is the serious part:

NO PROGRAM (LOGGING OR OTHERWISE) SHOULD BE PARSING "Human oriented" 
SPOT LINES.

*There has been a perfectly good machine readable version of a spot 
available for logging and other purposes *since the end of **_2004_**!*
_
_Just send 'set/ve7cc' after logging in.
__*
*73 Dirk G1TLH
**
On 23/01/2022 05:25, Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support wrote:
> 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 rely on the colon being there and some of them are no longer maintained.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 <mailto: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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