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

[Rob Harrison]

After your career in IT Dirk, you must of got used to the only constant you had was change!

73

From: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> On Behalf Of Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support
Sent: 23 January 2022 16:15
To: Iain Philipps via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
Cc: Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Interesting Problem with spots format and N1MM

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rely on the colon being there and some of them are no longer maintained.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