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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