Hi Dennis,

I have been adding several user defined fields and I noticed that USERFIELDS in many records now has only part of the user defined field data, i.e., |LOTWRDATE:20260804| would appear in USERFIELDS as |LOTWRDATE:20260 so its being cuttoff. I see where when this occurs the date in the logform for LOTWRDATE is blank. I know I have exceeded the 244 character limit for USERFIELDS but thought USERFIELDS(2) would pick up the entire pipe not just extend the characters from USERFIELDS. How can I fix this ??

Thanks,
Brad K8ZM


Update: So I filtered the log to show only USERFIELDS > 240 characters and got 13 QSO records. I could delete a user defined field or two but curious how USERFIELDS and USERFIELDS2 actually work. If you add more userdefined fields to a record where the 244 character limit gets exceeded by less than the # of characters in the pipe, does the entire pipe get moved to USERFIELDS2 or does the userdefined field just get split between USERFIELDS and USERFIELDS2 ?? Say I add userdefined field JUNK and it can contain 10 characters ( JUNK:0123456789 ). If that QSO record has 240 characters in USERFIELDS will JUNK get split between both USERFIELDS ( |JUNK goes into USERFIELDS and :0123456789| goes into USERFIELDS2 ) or does the entire pipe |JUNK:0123456789| get put to only USERFIELDS2 ??.

Sorry, I may have asked something like this years ago but can't find all the threads.