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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">As a special treat. I believe that I
have 'fixed' it, in that a colon will always be there. <br>
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However, as a consequence and because I have just 39 characters to
place "|DX de EA2ABZ: 10489690.0 EA5FZJ | <comment>"
before the comment, And since, generally, long spotter calls and
long QRGs and long spotted calls never occur at the same time, it
should be possible to never cause the comment field to move to the
right. A very long spotter(8 characters +':') and 10GHz+ QRG will
offset the rest of those 39 characters by one or two spaces. But
nearly always, one gets a long spotter and an HF QRG, or VHF+ spot
QRG and a normal spotter call and I can trade space so that the
decimal point and the spot stays aligned.<br>
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Not that I am OCD, not at all. Absolutely not, no. (I'm glad that
I have been able to clear that up).<br>
<b><br>
BUT - And this is the serious part:<br>
<br>
NO PROGRAM (LOGGING OR OTHERWISE) SHOULD BE PARSING "Human
oriented" SPOT LINES.<br>
<br>
</b>There has been a perfectly good machine readable version of a
spot available for logging and other purposes <b>since the end of
</b><b><u>2004</u></b><b>!</b><br>
<u><br>
</u>Just send 'set/ve7cc' after logging in. <br>
<u></u><b><br>
</b>73 Dirk G1TLH<br>
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On 23/01/2022 05:25, Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
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<div>DXLog used to have exactly the same problem and we ended up
redesigning the spot parsing just because of this. </div>
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DXSpider omits the colon after the spotter's callsign if it is
longer than 7 characters. As I have pointed out to Dirk,
<div>I think this is a very unfortunate deviation from the de
facto standard formatting of spots. Many software software </div>
<div>rely on the colon being there and some of them are no
longer maintained.
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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>>:<br>
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style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><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></p>
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