Re: [Xlog-discussion] Testme: version 2.0.6beta

[Andy Stewart]

On 12/09/2012 11:21 AM, Andy Stewart wrote:
> On 12/06/2012 10:00 AM, Stephen Gilbert wrote:
> > As Andy says, it is easy just to remove the unwanted bands in the
> > Preferences, but somebody on the planet may be glad of the new bands in
> > xlog.  It took me 10 seconds to remove everything below 1.8Mhz and above
> > 144Mhz.
> >
> >
> > I have been testing the IMPORT/EXPORT and have come up a with a problem.
> > I successfully IMPORTED a 17000 QSO .adi file which I had exported from
> > CQRLOG...which all went  into xlog correctly - although the earliest QSO
> > was displayed at the top and the newest QSO at the bottom of the list -
> > I prefer the newest QSO at the top of the screen. I then EXPORTED the
> > new xlog log to a new .adi file....after  deleting the old log, and
> > re-imported the new .adi file made with xlog 2.06. However, only part of
> > the log was imported....strange.
> >
> > Is the EXPORT working properly????
> >
> > Stephen G3OAG
>
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Thank you for sending that rather large ADIF file.  I have duplicated
> the problem.  With your file, the new ADIF v2 EXPORT malfunctions.  The
> resulting exported file only has about 3500 QSOs instead of 17,196 QSOs.
>   I have not yet found the root cause.
>
> I tried this same experiment with xlog 2.0.5 and I discovered no
> problems, so something seems to be amiss with 2.0.6beta.
>
> Thanks, and 73,
>
> Andy

HI Stephen,

I found the problem, but have not yet fixed it.

In your log, some QSOs are specified with mode MFSK.

According to the ADIF specification, version 2.2.7, that is not a legal 
mode specifier.  Close to it, and legal, are MFSK8 and MFSK16.

Reference:
http://www.adif.org/adif227.htm

CQRLOG indicated that the ADIF version was 2.2.1, and the same was true 
in that version of the specification.  I claim that is may be a bug in 
CQRLOG, or perhaps an omission in the ADIF specification.

However, xlog should have acted in a different way.  It should have 
flagged an error when the file was imported in the first place, and it 
didn't.  I plan to address that deficiency.

Andy

--
Andy Stewart (KB1OIQ)
Founder:   Worcester Linux Users' Group
Founder:   Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group
President: PART of Westford, MA (WB1GOF)