N6TR responded to W8TM:
>> > Then I used a text editor (Wordpad on my Win98SE machine) to paste
>> the brief resulting entries over those in the current October 15
>> version of cty.dat. These two changes shrank cty.dat from 110 KB to
>> 60 KB. When I loaded the modified cty.dat into TRLog, it started and
>> appears to run OK. Of course, it no longer knows specific data for
>> China and Asiatic Russia zones and/or individual stations, so I will
>> have to keep that in mind when working those two countries. It thinks
>> that all of China is zone 24, and all of Asiatic Russia is zone 17.
> Are you sure? The program has code in it to take care of zones for BY
> and UA9 (and
> some other countries). I haven't tested this however, so if this is
> what you saw,
> then I won't argue with you.
I seem to recall SR/SS times were not so helpful for places with a bit
of longitudinal spread (like YB) & perhaps CQ zones for B were also
fixed in the program. Oh, some QTFs were seriously bollixed. SR/SS
times for places with bollixed QTFs were also (understandably)
bollixed. I think it was an absurd QTF or SR/SS time that started it
all - Bs were made right by coding them, some duff lat/longs (not from
CTY.DAT?) were corrected & in the course of doing all that we also
twigged on the YBs. Was a long, long time ago.
73, ex-VR2BG/p.
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