<div>I've been telling all along that the default country file should be the one that assigns W1 to zone 5, W8 to zone 4, W6 to zone 3, etc.</div>
<div>Non-Expert user do not know how to select the correct country files and the automatic exchange guessing.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Larry - F6FVY, let's save the users a lot of stress and make these two selectable options, a Default option!</div>
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<div>The irony of all of this is that in the CQWW Contest nobody checks the zones.</div>
<div>Only the calls are checked. So save yourselves the burden of changing the zones...</div>
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<div>73</div>
<div>José Nunes</div>
<div>CT1BOH<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Wylie</b> <<a href="mailto:t.wylie@ntlworld.com">t.wylie@ntlworld.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Well we did 5,500 QSO admittedly not all with Ws, but how<br>can any datbase be up to date? You might as well just
<br>scrap the zonal exchange then?<br><br>You only need the extra keystroke if the zone shown is not<br>correct. The vast majority are so for me its not a major<br>issue.<br><br>Tom<br>GM4FDM<br><br><br><br>John Crovelli wrote:
<br>> Tom,<br>><br>> Its only a few more keystrokes BUT when you face the issue nearly 3000<br>> times (my W qsos) during the contest as I did this past weekend, and add<br>> into the mix some amount of sleep deprevation, it becomes a HUGE ISSUE
<br>> in terms of logging accuracy. So those 6000 or so extra keystrokes for<br>> me were not trivial.<br>><br>> I second Nigel's suggestion....make the CTY_WT_MOD.DAT the default even<br>> if its not perfect.
<br>><br>> John P40W aka W2GD<br>><br>><br>> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:46:04 +0000<br>> > From: <a href="mailto:t.wylie@ntlworld.com">t.wylie@ntlworld.com</a><br>> > To: <a href="mailto:support@win-test.com">
support@win-test.com</a><br>> > Subject: Re: [WT-support] Zone changing....not necessary!<br>> ><br>> > Personally I never believe the CTY files and check each zone<br>> > as it comes in. The problem arrives mainly in the USA
<br>> > where they have made a bollox of their callsigns so that a<br>> > W6 may well be in New York etc.<br>> ><br>> > I make changes manually to the Zone if necessary as I go<br>> > along checking the zone each time. I never rely on the CTY
<br>> > files, guys move around all the time...<br>> ><br>> > Its only a couple of key strokes more.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Tom<br>> > GM4FDM<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >
<br>> > Nigel G3TXF wrote:<br>> > > Hello Win-Test users,<br>> > ><br>> > > Yes, I was also 'correcting' the incoming zone for virtually every<br>> W this<br>> > > weekend. But it was entirely my fault!
<br>> > ><br>> > > I had not realised that there was a choice of Country Files, until<br>> Boris<br>> > > T93Y kindly mentioned it on here during the Contest. [But even<br>> after reading
<br>> > > Boris' message I did not dare change the Country File myself during the<br>> > > contest for fear of messing up my log!]<br>> > ><br>> > > Wouldn't the answer be to make the CTY_WT_MOD.DAT the default
<br>> Country File?<br>> > ><br>> > > We could then forget about the other two. Uploading the latest<br>> version of<br>> > > this file from within Win-Test is just so easy.<br>> > >
<br>> > > While I am on, I'd like to say that Win-Test once again added<br>> significantly<br>> > > to the fun of the contest, even though I was giving myself extra<br>> work in<br>> > > changing so many incoming Zones, by using the wrong Country File!
<br>> > ><br>> > > 73 - Nigel G3TXF<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > > Isn't perhaps the answer to this<br>> > > problem to make the<br>> > > ----- Original Message -----
<br>> > > From: "Mikhail Bondarev" <<a href="mailto:rl3bm@rl3bm.ru">rl3bm@rl3bm.ru</a>><br>> > > To: "I4UFH HRS" <<a href="mailto:support@win-test.com">support@win-test.com
</a>><br>> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:06 PM<br>> > > Subject: Re: [WT-support] Problem with zone guessing in 3.16<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > >> Hi there!<br>
> > >> I don't had any problems using WT 3.17.0 in CQWW SSB exept some wrong<br>> > >> zone numbers for Asiatic Russia (17 instead 18 etc..), but it seem to<br>> > >> me this is a problem of a new CTY file.
<br>> > >><br>> > >> 73, Mike RL3BM<br>> > >><br>> > >>> I had the same problem with WT 3.16. But after you enter the<br>> > >>> full call, if you move over to the zone field and press Ctrl-W or
<br>> > >>> Ctrl-K to clear it, then press the space bar a couple times, WT<br>> > >>> will usually fill in the correct zone.<br>> > >>> 73,<br>> > >>> Bob, N6TV
<br>> > >><br>> > >>> On 10/30/07, 4O3A <<a href="mailto:yt6a@cg.yu">yt6a@cg.yu</a>> wrote:<br>> > >><br>> > >>> I had the same problems as Tonno. It was very frustrating to
<br>> > >>> know that you have to type correct zone almost on every W's and<br>> > >>> UAs.<br>> > >>> 73<br>> > >>> Ranko<br>> > >><br>> > >>
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