Topband: 160m Contest Robot Update
Steve London
n2icarrl at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 21:16:05 EST 2007
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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