[Skimmertalk] "Oddity" in RBN Aggregator 5.2 (Bj?rn Ekelund)

[Björn Ekelund]

Thanks Dick,

that was fast!

I'm currently on business a business trip but I logged in remotely at home
and tested it and it does indeed solve the "issue".

Thanks!

73,

Björn SM7IUN/0


Den sön 10 feb. 2019 kl 22:12 skrev W3OA <w3oa at roadrunner.com>:

> Hello Björn -
>
> I've put a beta version of the next Aggregator release (5.3b2) in my
> Dropbox at https://www.dropbox.com/s/iveqnb2ods9tssg/Aggregator.exe?dl=0
>
> Please give it a try and let me know if it fixes the problem.
>
> 73 - Dick, W3OA
>
> On 2/10/2019 7:17 AM, Björn Ekelund wrote:
> > Since I'm not quite sure where to turn I write a post her.
> >
> > Apart from uploading my spots to RBN via aggregator, I also upload to my
> > friend OH6BG's web site voacap.com.
> >
> > After getting complaints on "illegal" frequency format from Jari on my
> FT8
> > spots I was able to nail it down
> > to what seems to be that RBN Aggregator applies Windows' locale to the
> > frequency information.
> > Which in most of Europe means decimal comma.
> >
> > Here is a screen shot:
> > https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiOyF6ZvAY04guEJ3P8BSDdTSE5onA
> >
> > It seems RBN is immune to this, but voacap.com is not.
> >
> > CW Skimmer spots are alwasy using decimal point.
> >
> > I personally think RBN Aggregator should treat the two equally and always
> > use decimal point, regardless of Windows locale.
> >
> > Or is there a setting I have simply missed?
> >
> > Björn SM7IUN
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