[Dx4win] File Merge Problem: Gibberish in Call Notes

[Paul van der Eijk]

Joe,

You most likely have a QSO in your log with an empty callsign
that has this funny note in it. Locate that bad QSO and delete it.

I have no good clue how one can enter such a QSO, but it seems possible.

Paul


At 01:01 PM 1/24/02 -0500, Joe Giacobello, K2XX wrote:
>Dear List Members:
>
>I recently used my laptop to log some QSOs as HS0ZCK during a recent
>trip  to Thailand.  When I got home, I merged these QSOs as a new group
>with my K2XX file on my shack desktop computer using the DX4WIN file
>merge commands.  Ever since I did the merge, I have gibberish in the
>"Notes for this Call" area of the QSO window.  The gibberish is:
>/stonDWF8C, and the "D" is in red with the rest in black.  It appears
>whenever I hit F9 to log a QSO in real time and disappears when I start
>to enter a call into the QSO window.
>
>I tried merging the HS0 log into my K2XX backup file and the same
>gibberish appeared in the same place.  However, since I didn't save the
>merged files in this case, the gibberish problem can be reversed by
>simply deleting the merged HS0 QSOs.  In the case of my main K2XX file,
>where I did save the HS0 QSOs, the gibberish problem cannot be reversed
>by deleting the HS0 merged files.
>
>Does anyone have an idea of what's going on here and how I can correct
>the problem?  (BTW, both computers are using version 5.03 of DX4WIN.)
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>
>73, Joe
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Paul van der Eijk (KK4HD)
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