This morning, Bob K8IA pointed out to me that WriteLog was not
recognizing prefixes beginning with B1 (like B1Z) as China. I have
never worked one from my modest station here in Colorado, so I never
noticed the problem myself. I'm surprised that no one else has ever
reported the problem before.
The software that writes the country files for WF1B and WriteLog has
some special tests to avoid writing certain duplicate (unnecessary)
prefixes to the country file. WF1B handled B1 (BY1) correctly, but
WriteLog did not. The fix was to copy the correct test condition from
the WF1B section of the code to the WriteLog section of the code, and
B1 now shows up in the country file:
< 3U3,3U4,3U5,3U6,3U7,3U8,3U9,B0,B2,B3,B4,B5,B6,B7,B8,B9,BA,BA0,BA2,BA3,BA4,
< BZ9,XS,XS0,XS2,XS3,XS4,XS5,XS6,XS7,XS8,XS9,=BA4DL/0(23);
---
< 3U3,3U4,3U5,3U6,3U7,3U8,3U9,B0,B2,B3,B4,B5,B6,B7,B8,B9,BA,BA0,BA2,BA3,BA4,
> BZ9,XS,XS0,XS2,XS3,XS4,XS5,XS6,XS7,XS8,XS9,B1,=BA4DL/0(23);
I won't explain why it's listed after XS9 instead of before B2, that's
a much longer discussion.
This fix will be in the next country file release, certainly before
the ARRL 10m contest.
I apologize to anyone affected by this problem.
73 - Jim AD1C
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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, https://ad1c.us
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