[WT-support] default.dta file

[Clive Whelan]

Thanks Bob

I can see what you are saying, but without prolonging the agony, somehow 
N1MM gets around the problem, and the same file works OK in N+1 there, 
that's why I was thrown at first. Horses for courses of course.

In WT xdt is obviously the way to go, and fortunately somebody else has 
already typed out the 500 odd calls/names I need ;-)

The only downside is that the window is a tad slow to pop up whether 
there is just one or 500 calls in the file, so clearly it's an overhead. 
That would preclude executing a paddle greeting at the front end, but I 
often can't react quickly enough from the .dta file in the partial 
window anyway, so I just fake it by using the name at the end of the 
exchange!

So all's well that ends well. I just wish it were practical to print out 
the manual so I could read it "off-line" and find out about all these 
useful features. Sadly that's not the case now I'm no longer at the salt 
mine, but hey I'll live with that ;-)

73


Clive
GW3NJW

Bob Wilson, N6TV wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Clive Whelan 
> <clive.whelan at btinternet.com <mailto:clive.whelan at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm guessing therefore that the difference is in the parsing of the
>     files in WT which ignores the /<callsign>, but no doubt you will know
>     definitively.
>
>
> N+1 means "Callsigns that are no ONE character off," with the slash ( 
> / ) counting as a character.
>
> So if you enter
>
>    KH6/
>
> You'll only see KH6J, KH6U, and KH6X in the N+1 window, and every 
> callsign that contains KH6/ in the check partial window.
>
> If you enter
>
>    KH67W6PH
>
> You'll see
>
>    KH6/W6PH
>
> listed in the N+1 window, and NO callsigns listed in the Check Partial 
> window.
>
> So that's why you usually need both, and that's why putting 
> GW3NJW/Clive in your .DTA files is going to eliminate your friends 
> (CALL/Name) from ever being listed in the N+1 window.  Every "friend" 
> callsign will be TWO or more characters off, not ONE.
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Clive Whelan 
> <clive.whelan at btinternet.com <mailto:clive.whelan at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     I never normally use the partial or N+1 windows, nor e.g.
>     exchange guessing, since I just copy what I hear ( I am 100% CW btw).
>
>
> Exchange guessing is a great time saver.  You still must copy what you 
> hear to verify the information, but if it is correct, you have that 
> much less typing to do, especially for stations that you have already 
> logged on other bands.  Less typing is good.  With exchange guessing, 
> Win-Test will first look through the current log to see what you 
> entered previously.  If not found, it will try to guess the Zone based 
> on the call and zone data in the Country files (CT.DAT, 
> CT_WT_MOD.DAT), which I think is fine.  Win-Test can also pull 
> information from .DTB files (sometimes called "pre-fill files" or 
> "exchange databases"), which may not be that accurate.  If you use 
> DEFAULT.SCP, and Zone is NOT part of the exchange, exchange guessing 
> only prefills exchange data for previously logged stations, and .DTB 
> files are not used.
>
> As mentioned, The Extra Data Files Window is the right place to 
> display your Names database.  Since it uses simple ASCII files, it is 
> a lot easier to maintain than .DTA files.  It has nothing to do with 
> the Exchange Guessing option.
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
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