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

[John Crovelli]

Tom,
 
Its only a few more keystrokes BUT when you face the issue nearly 3000 times (my W qsos) during the contest as I did this past weekend, and add into the mix some amount of sleep deprevation, it becomes a HUGE ISSUE in terms of logging accuracy.  So those 6000 or so extra keystrokes for me were not trivial.
 
I second Nigel's suggestion....make the CTY_WT_MOD.DAT the default even if its not perfect.  
 
John P40W aka W2GD
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:46:04 +0000> From: t.wylie at ntlworld.com> To: support at win-test.com> Subject: Re: [WT-support] Zone changing....not necessary!> > 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> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________> >> Support mailing list> >> Support at win-test.com> >> http://www.f5mzn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support> >>> >>> > > > > > _______________________________________________> > Support mailing list> > Support at win-test.com> > http://www.f5mzn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support> > > > > > _______________________________________________> Support mailing list> Support at win-test.com> http://www.f5mzn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
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