On Dec. 4 I had a QSO with UA0FAI on RTTY using AXETTY. Everything went fine and the contact was logged into DXB without a problem. However, today when I attempted to create a tq8 file for upload to LOTW I got an error message that UA0FIA (slashed zero in the call sign) was an invalid amateur call. This puzzled me as I have worked Gennady before on SSB and CW and those contacts uploaded without a problem.
I went into the adi file itself and tried to find UA0FAI and got the message not found. I then searched on the suffix FAI and found the call. In looking at the info I noticed some errors in the adi file. The length of the <PFX> field was 2, UA, not 3, UA0. Also the <DXBPFX> field was 6, UA0FAI, the full call instead of just the 3 position prefix. After studying this a bit I decided that the problem was the slashed zero in the call. I edited all the slashed zeros to unslashed zeros and corrected the lengths of the two prefix fields and the associated data and saved the file. This time when I used TQSL to create a tq8 file the process went without incident and the tq8 file uploaded to LOTW. I just checked the Settings/General Setup tab in AXETTY and unchecked the use slashed zero font option. The question though is why would this be a problem between AXETTY and DXB? Has anyone else ever run into this before? BTW, I am not using a slashed font in DXB so maybe this is the problem? Perhaps Joe could shed some light on the subject. 73, Gary AL9A ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
