[WT-support] Zone changing....not necessary!

[Tom Wylie]

Personally I never believe the CTY files and check each zone 
as it comes in.    The problem arrives mainly in the USA 
where they have made a bollox of their callsigns so that a 
W6 may well be in New York  etc.

I make changes manually to the Zone if necessary as I go 
along checking the zone each time.   I never rely on the CTY 
files,  guys move around all the time...

Its only a couple of key strokes more.


Tom
GM4FDM



Nigel G3TXF wrote:
> Hello Win-Test users,
> 
> Yes, I was also 'correcting' the incoming zone for virtually every W this
> weekend. But it was entirely my fault!
> 
> I had not realised that there was a choice of Country Files, until Boris
> T93Y kindly mentioned it on here during the Contest. [But even after reading
> Boris' message I did not dare change the Country File myself during the
> contest for fear of messing up my log!]
> 
> Wouldn't the answer be to make the CTY_WT_MOD.DAT the default Country File?
> 
> We could then forget about the other two. Uploading the latest version of
> this file from within Win-Test is just so easy.
> 
> While I am on, I'd like to say that Win-Test once again added significantly
> to the fun of the contest, even though I was giving myself extra work in
> changing so many incoming Zones, by using the wrong Country File!
> 
> 73 - Nigel G3TXF
> 
> 
> 
> Isn't perhaps the answer to this
> problem to make the
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mikhail Bondarev" <rl3bm at rl3bm.ru>
> To: "I4UFH HRS" <support at win-test.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [WT-support] Problem with zone guessing in 3.16
> 
> 
>> Hi there!
>> I don't had any problems using WT 3.17.0 in CQWW SSB exept some wrong
>> zone numbers for Asiatic Russia (17 instead 18 etc..), but it seem to
>> me this is a problem of  a new CTY file.
>>
>> 73, Mike RL3BM
>>
>>> I had the same problem with WT 3.16. But after you enter    the
>>> full call, if you move over to the zone field and press Ctrl-W or
>>> Ctrl-K    to clear it, then press the space bar a couple times, WT
>>> will usually fill in    the correct zone.
>>> 73,
>>> Bob, N6TV
>>
>>> On 10/30/07, 4O3A <yt6a at cg.yu> wrote:
>>
>>> I had the same problems as Tonno. It was very      frustrating to
>>> know that you have to type correct zone almost on every W's      and
>>> UAs.
>>> 73
>>> Ranko
>>
>>
>>
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