[Xlog-discussion] Re: XLOG 0.8

[Joop Stakenborg]

Martin Kratoska wrote:
> Hi Joop,

Hello Martin,

> tried out the XLOG 0.8. Very good start indeed, congrats on a nice piece of
> software. There are some ideas for improvement, only a major thing - if the
> XLOG is meant as general logger I'm afraid that use of the "standard" .cty
> file is not very good idea, the logger would became unable to offer
> reasonable stats.

Yes, this is true. I already have seen several problems with the cty data.

> I can contribute to the project with my country tables (probably the most
> accurate tables available, I'm creating and maintaining it for some 10
> years). There would be some changes in the country recognition algorithm:
> - the program must respond to the dates AND compare ithe date with QSO date
> (probably you remember the times of VP6 as Barbados but now it is Pitcairn,
> there are many such changes of prefix assignation)
> - the DXCC status should be determined using an unique identifier (where
> many prefixes should be assigned to this identifier).

That would be great! Xlog started out with a simple DXCC table with the 
first couple of releases. Starting with version 0.8 I have used cty.dat 
with some additions in a file called xlog.dat, but I already have seem a 
couple of errors. If we would have reliable country tables, which could 
actually add log statistics to xlog and some kind of award checking...

> Without these changes you would be probably unable to produce a simple WAZ
> stats - UA0Y is zone 23, UA0Z is 19 etc. but entering either UA0 or UA9
> improper zones are assigned by default . The "standard" .cty file is very
> coarse and good for a contest logger only if you entering "actual ones"
> only.
>
> BTW I assisted Tony, VE6YP, with his YPLOG. Take a look at this logger if
> you find a minute. Missing YPLOG equivalent for Linux/Open source. Any
> ideas? Can I help?

Okay, I will have a look at YPLOG, if it is installable under wine (no 
windows here). We could add your country tables to a future release, 
version 1.0 would be a good target, since version 0.9 will focus on 
porting to the GTK+ version 2 libraries.

If you know a bit of programming, you could also send me a patch against 
xlog :-)

> 73 Martin, OK1RR
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Thanks,
Joop PA4TU