[WriteLog] WL_CTY File

Wed Nov 18 20:25:08 EST 2015

Chuck,

Yes, I have been using WL for 10 years or so. In the past I would just do a CTY update before every contest and ASSUMED everything went as planned. I didn’t know about the check VERSION to see if I had the latest CTY file. But then I would notice certain calls wouldn’t be recognized or would be logged incorrectly. A good example is during the CQWWDX SSB I worked TO8M, TO2A and some others that WL did not recognize. I would have to stop and use the EDIT QSO window to tell WL what country the call belongs to. And it doesn’t remember it. If I work the same call on another band then I have to use EDIT QSO to assign the correct prefix to the call again: (TO8M=FM, TO2A=FY, etc). With CT once you told the program what country a call belonged to it would remember it the next time you logged them on a new band. It appears just having the latest WL_CTY file in the ProgramData/WL folder isn’t enough, it has to be processed by the READCTY32 program and other files have to be converted also like the DXCCDOS.DAT, DXCCWAE.DAT, etc. 

Using the ReadCTY32 to download and convert the WL_DAT file I did get the correct results on one PC, the one the XYL uses, not my contest PC. I am still fighting with the contest PC trying to get the correct results. Both use WIN 8.1.

Still fighting

GL & 73

From: Chuck Dietz [mailto:w5prchuck at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 5:31 AM
To: Alan Zack
Cc: Gary AL9A; Steve Woodruff; Jim Reisert AD1C; Writelog Reflector
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WL_CTY File

If it makes you feel any better, I'm in the same boat.  I have given up on trying to update the CTY file. The log checking software will correctly score the log.
For me, this has been going on for years, through several versions of windows, now up to Win 10.  It should update annually, when you update and do a full install.

Chuck, W5PR

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Alan Zack <k7acz at cox.net> wrote:
Gentlemen,

First, thank you for your help and patience in attempting to help me to get
my WL_CTY file to work with WL.

You all had excellent suggestions and I have tried them all. Believe me I
have put probably over 100 hours playing with this on two different PC's. I
know I am missing something somewhere but I don't know what.

Here is what I have done so far:

Removed all WL_CTY files from anywhere I could find them. I searched my WL
Program Date folder, WL Program Files (x86) folder, WL Documents folder.

I then UNINSTALLED WL and restarted the PC

Then I installed wl1130cFullhNs19sEsl.exe (Full installation of WL 11.30
recently purchased)
Then I installed  <http://writelog.com/Downloads/wl1130cmsiupg.exe>
wl1130cmsiupg.exe

This should have put me into the latest version of WL.

Then I started experimenting:

Steve suggested I do the simple automatic WL_CTY update by using FILE> Web
update data files, Download, click OK.
This gives me SAUDI ARABIA when I type VERSION into the callsign window. BUT
when I open Program Data/WL, and find WL_CTY and open it with Notepad and
search for VERSION it comes out as Uzbekistan.

Next Gary suggested I close WL and open the READCTY32 program. I did the
download and the convert functions. Received the ALL DONE msg, closed
READCTY32 and opened WL. Again, when I typed VERSION into the callsign
window it still comes up SAUDI ARABIA. So I closed WL, went back to the WL
Program Data folder, opened WL_CTY and searched for VERSION and found
SPRATLY ISLANDS. From checking Jim, AD1C's website I knew his latest file is
2512-27-OCT-2015 and SPRATLY ISLANDS is the VERSION entity.

I also tried to do the update from Jim's County Files.com page with the same
results.

So I know I have the latest WL_CTY file in my WL Program Data folder. Why
can't WL find it when I open my log and start a new log and type in VERSION?
It always comes up as SAUDI ARABIA.

I have done this over and over again, uninstalling WL, reinstalling it,
restarting the PC, sometimes restarting the PC after every attempt to
download the latest WL_CTY file, with the same results.

I must have a WL_CTY file somewhere with SAUDI ARABIA as the VERSION but I
don't know where.

I am using WIN 8.1 and the only way I know how to search for a file is to
bring up the little looking glass search charm as they call it and type in
WL_CTY in the search box. But it doesn't show me any WL_CTY files. I know I
have at least one in the WL Program Data folder but it doesn't find it.
Maybe because the files in the Program Data folder are hidden files? In the
property box I unclicked the HIDDEN function but my searches still do not
find any WL_CTY files.

I am curious over what are all the other _CTY files are about such as
NA_CTY, SA_CTY, etc. Could one of them be causing the problem? I haven't
messed with them as I am afraid I might make natters worse,

TIA for any insights you might be able to provide. I hope to have my CTY
file working for the CQWWDX CW coming up.

73
Alan, K7ACZ

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