[TRLog] ARRL Field Day and DX

[Bruce Ferry]

The shortened CTY.DAT solution works great. Gives back quite a bit of
available memory too. Only catch is you left out "G" in your example.
After I fixed that, it works just fine. You do need to do the "ADD
DOMESTIC COUNTRY = DX" and add "Dx = DX" in the .DOM file. After that it
works fine.

Udo DL2ZAV wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> [Bruce Ferry, 5 Jun 2002:]
> > Region 2 DX isn't any different from other DX. The exchange is the
> > same no matter what region you are in. The only difference is that all
> > region 2 stations can ENTER the contest.
> >
> 
> to kk1l: see below
> 
> > I'm not willing to try a new release of TR on field day. We've been
> > burned (with CT) once before and it's not worth the risk. To this end,
> > I have a "solution" that seems to work:
> >
> >  1. Add 'Dx = DX' to the .DOM file (I made a new one ARRLFD.DOM)
> >  2. Add each country as a domestic country (ADD DOMESTIC COUNTRY = xx)
> >
> > I know number 2 is pretty extensive and I did check what impact is has
> > on available memory. It takes up about 7K of additional memory which
> > should not be a problem to most setups. I wrote a simple program to
> > build an INPUT CONFIG file so the actual field day CFG file is
> > relatively short.
> >
> 
> As deleting is less extensive than adding (over 300 domestic
> countries?), why not use a modified CTY.DAT in your working
> directory (takes precedence over the one in C:\LOG) that puts the
> rest of the world into one big country named DX (FD does not care
> about DX countries).
> 
> i. e.
> 
> - remove all non-domestic countries from that special cty.dat, just
> leave K, VE, KL7, KH6, KP2, KP4 (and those I forgot)
> 
> - add a country like this:
> 
> DX:                       06:  10:  NA:   19.40:    99.10:     6.0:  DX:
> 
> A,B,C,D,E,F,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,
> 7,8,9;
> 
> (take care about that semicolon at the end or TR will hang up!)
> (and yes, you do lose beam heading and sunset info, but do you
> need it in this case?)
> 
> - save cty.dat into fieldday working directory
> 
> - add a line   ADD DOMESTIC COUNTRY = DX  to your FD.CFG
> 
> - enter class plus dx as received into exchange window.
> 
> -----------------
> 
> to kk1l:
> Bruce is right. DX is DX, anywhere. Probably
> ClassDomesticOrDXQTHExchange is unique to the field day. So I
> think you just have to modify this procedure that for DX it accepts
> Class plus anything (including nothing) and puts class plus "DX"
> (not country designator) in the log.
> 
> --
> 73, Udo
> dl2zav@darc.de
> 
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Bruce Ferry, AK8B