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

[Dirk Koopman]

Good question, well asked.

It appears that, even though DXSpider has at least twice as many nodes 
as all the other software put together, that does not mean that I am a 
defacto standard. Not invented here (wherever that is)?

Perhaps I should stop bothering  to try to get some of consensus for 
change and just do it. No change is ever forthcoming after all.

Dirk G1TLH

On 23/01/2022 07:25, Iain Philipps via Dxspider-support wrote:
>
> 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
> *To:* The DXSpider Support list
> *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 rely on the colon being there and some of them are no longer maintained.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 <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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