[WT-support] CTY-1814 Contest Country Files - 14 November 2008

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

I forgot one item in the release notes:

# For Win-Test, removed duplicate UA4W, etc. prefixes from
cty_wt_mod.dat (so they get the correct distance/bearing)

73 - Jim AD1C

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> The Contest Country (CTY) Files were updated on 14 November 2008.
>
>    http://www.country-files.com/cty/
>
> Please follow the Installation link to find instructions for your
> particular software.
>
> There are two important changes in this release:
>
> 1.  There is a new way to tell which version of the country files you
>    have loaded.  If you try to log the callsign "VERSION", a
>    different country will come up for each release of the country
>    file.  This country will be listed in the release notes (see
>    below).  For DX Cluster users, you can use the SH/H VERSION or
>    SH/SUN VERSION command to determine which country file is loaded.
>
> 2.  The ZIP archive now includes two new files: old/cty.dat and old/wl_cty.dat
>    These files don't have '=' front of full callsigns, to maintain
>    compatibility with older software like CT9.
>
>
> Here are the rest of the release notes:
>
> 14 November 2008 (CTY-1814)
> VER20081114, Version entity is Kingman Reef, KH5K
>
>    * E51QQQ is North Cook Is., E5/n
>    * N7NG is in ITU zone 6
>    * R70B is Asiatic Russia, UA9

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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us