Wow! I've never noticed this and I've worked the B1 prefix at least a few
times with WriteLog. I'm not disagreeing, just surprised. I've also never
noticed it in all the log checking I've done. Is that because B1 is in the
cty.dat used in log checking? So, this only affects the WL user during the
contest and not their Raw or Final Scores from the log check software. 73,Ed
W0YK
-------- Original message --------From: Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> Date: 11/29/24 07:09 (GMT-08:00) To: WriteLog
<writelog@contesting.com> Cc: Bob Epstein K8IA <bobk8ia@aol.com> Subject:
[WriteLog] B1 prefix in WriteLog This morning, Bob K8IA pointed out to me that
WriteLog was notrecognizing prefixes beginning with B1 (like B1Z) as China. I
havenever worked one from my modest station here in Colorado, so I nevernoticed
the problem myself. I'm surprised that no one else has everreported the
problem before.The software that writes the country files for WF1B and WriteLog
hassome special tests to avoid writing certain duplicate (unnecessary)prefixes
to the country file. WF1B handled B1 (BY1) correctly, butWriteLog did not.
The fix was to copy the correct test condition fromthe WF1B section of the code
to the WriteLog section of the code, andB1 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'sa much longer discussion.This
fix will be in the next country file release, certainly beforethe ARRL 10m
contest.I apologize to anyone affected by this problem.73 - Jim AD1C-- Jim
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