Each state is included. FN32 has five states in that grid. Since we only have the 4 character grid and not the six characters we have a lot of over lap. Check out the screenshot included.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:33 AM, Joe Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > Thanks for the suggested enhancement. Before we get to more detailed review, > perhaps you can describe how you handle 4-character locators that span > include more than one US state. > > -- Joe, K1JT > >> On 11/18/2021 1:12 PM, John Korpal via wsjt-devel wrote: >> Grid Locator to State Mapping Enhancement >> The following is a description of the enhancement to WSJT-x -2.5.2 that maps >> the grid locator in the message to be mapped to the state located in that >> grid. >> Why >> The grid to state mapping helps the operator to know what state are located >> within that grid. This helps when the operator is working on WAS for that >> band. He then knows which stations he needs to focus on and which ones he >> can work later. >> How does the mapping work? >> There is a grid to state file called grid.dat. it is in the same format as >> the cty.dat file. This grid.dat file is read into two grid tables >> (gridPrefix and gridState). The first two characters of the grid locator is >> the two characters (A-Z) and is refer as the grid prefix. The second two >> characters are numbers (0-1) and are refer as the grid index. When a message >> is received with a grid locator in the message the grid prefix is used to >> perform a binary search of the gridPrefix table. This table is small >> (currenly only 25 entries) so the search is fast. This finds a one of the >> indexes for the second table the gridState table. The second index is >> obtained from the grid index of the grid locator. The gridState table >> contain string of the states that as within that grid. >> #define maxPrefix 25 //NJ0A >> #define maxIndex 100 //NJ0A >> QString gridPrefix [maxPrefix]; //NJ0A >> QString gridState [maxPrefix] [maxIndex]; //NJ0A >> int gridNumPrefix; //NJ0A >> What has changed >> The following files were added to WSJT-X-2.5.2 >> 1.grid.dat >> The following files were modified to WSJT-X-2.5.2 >> 2.CMakeList.txt >> a.Grid.dat was added >> 3.Logbook/AD1CCTY.cpp >> a.Add gridPrifix and gridState tables. >> b.Read in the grid.dat file into gridPrefix and gridState table >> c.Add member findState that will parse the grid locator to state. >> 4.Logbook/ADQCCTY.hpp >> a.Add findState to class >> 5.Widgets/displaytext.cpp >> a.In displayDecodedText make call to logbook.contries()->findStat(dxGrid) >> b.Add state to message >> 6.Configuration.ui/Configuration.cpp/Configuration.hpp >> a.Added two switches to turn on/off this feature. >> b. >> Graphical user interface, text, application, email Description automatically >> generated >> A picture containing application Description automatically generated >> I have fork the of the current wsjtx-2.5.2 into my branch (jlkorpal/wsjt). >> Your can review the changes there. Also I have build packages for MAC and >> window in my source forge account (jlkorpal) >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/jlk-wsjtx/files/ >> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/jlk-wsjtx/files/>. Another ham (K6FA) and >> I have been running the enhancement for close to two years and have seen no >> issue today. >> I wanted to run this by the group before request a merge. >> John (NJ0A) >> _______________________________________________ >> wsjt-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
