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Re: [CQ-Contest] Topband: 160m Contest Robot Update

To: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Topband: 160m Contest Robot Update
From: Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com>
Reply-to: n2ic@arrl.net
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:16:05 -0700
List-post: <mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
Jim Brown wrote:
> Another issue I ran into with N1MM -- it's programmed to believe 
> that N8SS is N8S, last year's DXpedition. It would not allow me to 
> log it until I changed the call to N8S. I then edited to contact to 
> MI, but it still counted it as a 5-pointer and a new country. I had 
> to edit the Cabrillo file to correct the error. The Q is properly 
> logged in the Cabrillo file, but the claimed score was wrong (one 
> extra multiplier, three extra QSO points). 
> 
> If you had this problem, you'll know it, because N1MM doesn't let 
> you save the Q until you change it to N8S. 
> 

This happened because you were using an old version of cty.dat (or, in the case 
of N1MM and Writelog, wl_cty.dat). This does not happen if you use a recent 
version.

73,
Steve, N2IC


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