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January 23, 2009
NEW NA RELEASE 10.69 NOW
AVAILABLE
A new version of the NA contest
logging program is now available
from the
Radio Bookstore or the DATOM Online web site.
For those who notice such things, the
last general release of NA was version 10.66 back in March
2008. Since then, there have been a couple of limited
releases as we worked to debug problems or develop new
features. 10.69 has been used in several contests from the
K8CC station and is quite stable.
The primary reason for 10.69 is to support rule changes for
the CQ 160M contest, where DX stations now send their CQ
zone in their exchange rather than a poorly defined country
abbreviation. Prior NA versions can be used under these new
rules by simply typing in the received zone, but 10.69 adds
convenience because it inserts the CQ zone automatically for
non-domestic (W/VWE) stations.
Changes in Revision 10.69
- Updated Cabrillo file formatting
to revision 3.0, and changed the Log File Information
screen to more accurately support the Cabrillo
descriptions for entry categories.
- Revised CQ 160 Contest to default
received exchange for DX QSOs to their CQ zone to
support new rules for 2009.
Changes in Revision 10.68
- Corrected RS-232 command protocol
error with setting radio frequency
for FT817/857.
- CW sending would not work
correctly in mixed mode with RTTY enabled.
- Band selection window would not
allow de-selecting unused bands.
- In contests with list+DX
multipliers, the Alt-M multiplier window would not show
the DX mults.
- In CQWW, when checking zone-QSOs
with F10, QSOs would be shown with the country of the
zone multiplier instead.
- In CQWW, the QSOs Per Multiplier
breakdown for zones were inaccurate.
- Fixed crash with the Bandchanges
Per Hour breakdown and made the breakdown always appear
along with the QSOs Per Hour breakdown (used to only
appear in contests with limits on multi-op bandchanges).
- Added report in .BRK file for the
number of CQs called and the number of times stations
were called during the contest.
- Added capability to set the
non-active VFO with the minus key on Yaesu FT817/857
radios.
Changes in Revision 10.67
- When using SO2R, the default RST
on the alternate radio would always be
599 regardless of the mode.
- Callsigns with non-standard
portables needed to be matched on the full callsign to
correctly identify the country (example: 9M6/N1UR =
Spratly,
not East Malaysia).
- Added option to send QSO numbers
by band-mode, in addition to the current option to send
QSO numbers by band.
- Reallocated two characters from
the end of the "Address2" field on the Information Sheet
to the "Club" field accommodate the name "Society Of
Midwest Contesters".
73,
DATOM Engineering
Dave Pruett, K8CC
Tom Pruett, WB8VMN |
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