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Seems strange that the worlds number one cluster program and worlds number one contest logging program are incompatible with each other
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<blockquote type="cite">On 23 Jan 2022, at 07:26, Iain Philipps via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk> wrote:<br>
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Who set this “de facto standard”, exactly?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 23 January 2022 05:25<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Björn Ekelund<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] Interesting Problem with spots format and N1MM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">DXLog used to have exactly the same problem and we ended up redesigning the spot parsing just because of this. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">DXSpider omits the colon after the spotter's callsign if it is longer than 7 characters. As I have pointed out to Dirk, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think this is a very unfortunate deviation from the de facto standard formatting of spots. Many software software <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rely on the colon being there and some of them are no longer maintained.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Björn SM7IUN<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Den lör 22 jan. 2022 kl 14:28 skrev Rob Harrison via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="background:white">I am trying to do the BARTG RTTY SPRINT today, but noticed that many spots are being filtered that should not be in N1MM</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">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.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Help</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">73 de Rob G4UJS</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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