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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>Question:<br><br>Who set this “de facto standard”, exactly?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>73 de WR3D<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Dxspider-support [mailto:dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support<br><b>Sent:</b> 23 January 2022 05:25<br><b>To:</b> The DXSpider Support list<br><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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><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><div><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>rely on the colon being there and some of them are no longer maintained.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Björn SM7IUN<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><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></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Hi,</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br><br><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><br><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><br><span style='background:white'>Help</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>73 de Rob G4UJS</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Rob Harrison</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00204E'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000040'>Green Lane House, Whixall, Shropshire, SY13 2PT.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'>M:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <b>07826 958358</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'>E: <u><a href="mailto:g4ujs@outlook.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:#FF9900'>g4ujs@outlook.com</span></a></u></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'>_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00204E'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00204E'>This e-mail and any attachments are not guaranteed to be free from viruses, and are for the intended addressee(s) only</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00204E'>and may contain confidential and/or privileged material, so if you are not a named or intended addressee, do not use,</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00204E'>retain or disclose such information. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green'>P</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>Consider the environment. 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