[DXLog.net - Support] Support Digest, Vol 47, Issue 11
Mats Strandberg
sm6lrr at gmail.com
Thu Apr 27 12:10:07 CEST 2017
Great Chris!
Also plan to work Helvetia Contest with your excellent software!
73 Mats
2017-04-27 13:00 GMT+03:00 <support-request at dxlog.net>:
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> 1. Strange spots from 3V/KF5EVY (Mats Strandberg)
> 2. Re: Strange spots from 3V/KF5EVY (9A5K)
> 3. Re: Strange spots from 3V/KF5EVY (Fabian Kurz)
> 4. Re: Strange spots from 3V/KF5EVY (9A5K)
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> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:10:47 +0300
> From: Mats Strandberg <sm6lrr at gmail.com>
> To: support at dxlog.net
> Subject: [DXLog.net - Support] Strange spots from 3V/KF5EVY
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> Hello!
>
> Anyone experiencing strange spots from one of RBN skimmers, namely
> 3V/KF5EVY?
>
> This skimmer adds a digit in front of the callsigns. It means that the
> cluster inside DXlog is always showing double spots for each call which is
> spotted by 3V/KF5EVY. Also, when clicking on his spots, the call sign does
> not appear in the log, but only that didgit in front.
>
> I contacted Ash and asked him what is going on... According to him, nothing
> is changed from the output of the skimmer. Also N4ZC, Pete, is involved in
> the discussion.
>
> Anyone else that it experiencing this problem the last few days?? A week
> ago, all his spots were ok (like all other spots). Anyone that has the
> same problem with Win-Test, N1MM or other software - or is this related to
> some issue with DXlog?
>
> 73 de Mats RM2D
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:18:58 +0200
> From: 9A5K <9a5k at 9a5k.com>
> To: Mats Strandberg <sm6lrr at gmail.com>
> Cc: "support at dxlog.net" <support at dxlog.net>
> Subject: Re: [DXLog.net - Support] Strange spots from 3V/KF5EVY
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> Hi Mats.
>
> I will check in rbn archive to see what is going on with it.
> Didn't notice that before. Planning to release new version because of
> Helvetia contest changes for upcoming weekend,
> so maybe we can fix this if needed too.
> But let me check with rbn and I will reproduce spots flow from archive.
>
> 73,
> Chris - 9A5K
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Mats Strandberg <sm6lrr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > Anyone experiencing strange spots from one of RBN skimmers, namely
> > 3V/KF5EVY?
> >
> > This skimmer adds a digit in front of the callsigns. It means that the
> > cluster inside DXlog is always showing double spots for each call which
> is
> > spotted by 3V/KF5EVY. Also, when clicking on his spots, the call sign
> does
> > not appear in the log, but only that didgit in front.
> >
> > I contacted Ash and asked him what is going on... According to him,
> nothing
> > is changed from the output of the skimmer. Also N4ZC, Pete, is involved
> in
> > the discussion.
> >
> > Anyone else that it experiencing this problem the last few days?? A week
> > ago, all his spots were ok (like all other spots). Anyone that has the
> > same problem with Win-Test, N1MM or other software - or is this related
> to
> > some issue with DXlog?
> >
> > 73 de Mats RM2D
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Support at dxlog.net
> > http://www.dxlog.net/mailman/listinfo/support
> >
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:36:17 +0200
> From: Fabian Kurz <fabian at fkurz.net>
> To: support at dxlog.net
> Subject: Re: [DXLog.net - Support] Strange spots from 3V/KF5EVY
> Message-ID: <20170427073617.GA28077 at zabka.fkurz.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Hi Mats,
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:10:47AM +0300, Mats Strandberg wrote:
> > Anyone experiencing strange spots from one of RBN skimmers, namely
> > 3V/KF5EVY?
> >
> > This skimmer adds a digit in front of the callsigns. It means that the
> > cluster inside DXlog is always showing double spots for each call which
> is
> > spotted by 3V/KF5EVY. Also, when clicking on his spots, the call sign
> does
> > not appear in the log, but only that didgit in front.
> >
> > I contacted Ash and asked him what is going on... According to him,
> nothing
> > is changed from the output of the skimmer. Also N4ZC, Pete, is involved
> in
> > the discussion.
> >
> > Anyone else that it experiencing this problem the last few days?? A week
> > ago, all his spots were ok (like all other spots). Anyone that has the
> > same problem with Win-Test, N1MM or other software - or is this related
> to
> > some issue with DXlog?
>
> I think the answer is quite simple; stumbled over this the other day when
> I saw weird spots on my own RBN cluster (https://foc.dj1yfk.de/):
>
> Most programs simply cut out the callsign from the spot line starting at
> character #27. Since 3V/KF5EYY is pretty long, the spots are formatted
> like this:
>
> DX de SM6FMB-#: 7011.3 DK7JI CW 11 dB 17 WPM CQ 0731Z
> DX de 3V/KF5EYY-#: 14022.5 RT3LA CW 34 dB 28 WPM CQ
> 0731Z
> DX de HA1VHF-#: 70030.10 HG7BVC CW 6 dB 16 WPM DX 0731Z
>
> Most parsers will now produce the callsign 5RT3LA (or 5 RT3LA) from the
> 3V/KF5EYY spot, depending on how they are implemented.
>
> 73
> Fabian, DJ1YFK
>
> --
> Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK Munich, Germany
> fabian at fkurz.net Go Vegan!
> https://fkurz.net/ http://lcwo.net/
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:46:25 +0200
> From: 9A5K <9a5k at 9a5k.com>
> To: Fabian Kurz <fabian at fkurz.net>
> Cc: "support at dxlog.net" <support at dxlog.net>
> Subject: Re: [DXLog.net - Support] Strange spots from 3V/KF5EVY
> Message-ID:
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>
> Exactly that.
>
> DXLog is doing it in similar way, obviously, it's time to change it a bit.
> As ":" character can be used as start point, I will change the code to use
> it for calculation of fields position in
> the rest of the line.
> This should fix the issue very quickly.
>
> 73,
> Chris - 9A5K
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Fabian Kurz <fabian at fkurz.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mats,
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:10:47AM +0300, Mats Strandberg wrote:
> > > Anyone experiencing strange spots from one of RBN skimmers, namely
> > > 3V/KF5EVY?
> > >
> > > This skimmer adds a digit in front of the callsigns. It means that the
> > > cluster inside DXlog is always showing double spots for each call which
> > is
> > > spotted by 3V/KF5EVY. Also, when clicking on his spots, the call sign
> > does
> > > not appear in the log, but only that didgit in front.
> > >
> > > I contacted Ash and asked him what is going on... According to him,
> > nothing
> > > is changed from the output of the skimmer. Also N4ZC, Pete, is involved
> > in
> > > the discussion.
> > >
> > > Anyone else that it experiencing this problem the last few days?? A
> week
> > > ago, all his spots were ok (like all other spots). Anyone that has the
> > > same problem with Win-Test, N1MM or other software - or is this related
> > to
> > > some issue with DXlog?
> >
> > I think the answer is quite simple; stumbled over this the other day when
> > I saw weird spots on my own RBN cluster (https://foc.dj1yfk.de/):
> >
> > Most programs simply cut out the callsign from the spot line starting at
> > character #27. Since 3V/KF5EYY is pretty long, the spots are formatted
> > like this:
> >
> > DX de SM6FMB-#: 7011.3 DK7JI CW 11 dB 17 WPM CQ
> 0731Z
> > DX de 3V/KF5EYY-#: 14022.5 RT3LA CW 34 dB 28 WPM CQ
> > 0731Z
> > DX de HA1VHF-#: 70030.10 HG7BVC CW 6 dB 16 WPM DX
> 0731Z
> >
> > Most parsers will now produce the callsign 5RT3LA (or 5 RT3LA) from the
> > 3V/KF5EYY spot, depending on how they are implemented.
> >
> > 73
> > Fabian, DJ1YFK
> >
> > --
> > Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK Munich, Germany
> > fabian at fkurz.net Go Vegan!
> > https://fkurz.net/ http://lcwo.net/
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Support at dxlog.net
> > http://www.dxlog.net/mailman/listinfo/support
> >
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