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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Good question, well asked. <br>
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      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)?<br>
      <br>
      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. <br>
      <br>
      Dirk G1TLH<br>
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      On 23/01/2022 07:25, Iain Philipps via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD">Question:<br>
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            Who set this “de facto standard”, exactly?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD">73
            de WR3D<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""
              lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""
            lang="EN-US"> Dxspider-support
            [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk">mailto:dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk</a>] <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>
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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"><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"><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"><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"
                moz-do-not-send="true">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  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>
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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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                      lang="EN-US">Rob Harrison</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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                    lang="EN-US">Green Lane House, Whixall, Shropshire,
                    SY13 2PT.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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