[Trlog] Country file (zone) issues from 2008 CQWw CW

[Gary Reichow]

Thanks for the response Tree but something doesn't add up. I did enter KH6DX and it came up as Zone 31. 3Y0X came up as Bouvet until I took the '=' sign out. It came up as Peter I after the '=' sign was removed. Same for 4U9ITU. It didn't come up as Geneva until the '=' sign was removed.

Any idea why TR would not initialize using the 'old' format?

Tks - Gary (KN0V) 

--- On Mon, 12/1/08, Tree <tree at kkn.net> wrote:

> From: Tree <tree at kkn.net>
> Subject: Re: [Trlog] Country file (zone) issues from 2008 CQWw CW
> To: "Gary Reichow" <kn0v at yahoo.com>
> Cc: trlog at contesting.com
> Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 10:59 AM
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 06:55:50AM -0800, Gary Reichow
> wrote:
> 
> >    I do have one question. I run TR 6.58. What's
> the deal with the '=' signs in front of the calls in
> CTY.DAT (CTY-1815)? No problem with the call, but the zone
> was not displayed until I removed the '=' signs. I
> only saw this with TO3R and TO4X. I tried the 'old'
> format and TR would not initialize. Do I need to edit the
> '=' signs out?
> 
> This is part of the new spec that the latest TR version
> adopts.  Jim is putting
> those in as a way to make only those calls match up - as
> opposed to any call
> that contains those letters.
> 
> For example, you should see an entry for KH6DX putting him
> in zone 3.  However,
> you wouldn't want do this for KH6DXA.
> 
> Tree