[Dx4win] Trouble With Packet window to DX Spots

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:20 AM, N4DW - Dave wrote:

> Skip, your closing remark rang a bell here.  I've been critically watching
> the "Sorted By Time" spots lately, having noted that some are missing.
>
> When I looked at the setting mentioned, the "|" was missing here also.
>
> To be exact, it was missing twice as the first line and last line were
> almost identical with the exception that the last line had a " *" appended.
>
> DX DE|r:|f|c|q|tZ
> DX DE|r:|f|c|q|tZ *
>
> ???
> I've changed them both to DX|DE, but now question if both are necessary?
> ???

Both lines may be necessary.  The second line allows information after
the GMT time of the incoming spot, like spotter's state, grid or DXCC
entity.  I'm not sure which cluster software can do this, usually it's
at the end of the comment field (before GMT) but I recall there are
instances where it comes after.

I believe the '|' characters are needed because DX4WIN uses regular
expressions to parse the incoming spots.

For the record, my spotting formats are as follows:

[Packet2]
Packet_pat1=DX|DE|r:|f|c|q|tZ
Packet_pat2=f|c|d|tZ|q|<r>
Packet_pat3=r|f|c|q|<t|d>
Packet_pat4=DX|c|f|q
Packet_pat5=DX DE|r:|f|c|q|tZ *

I believe these are the default patterns, and have been propagated
forward through writing/merging my preferences from earlier versions.

73 - Jim AD1C

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