This release 

- stores a Spot Database Entry's QSX frequency in the correct format in non-US locales (tnx to Salvatore (I4FYV)

- monitors automatic propagation prediction and restarts it if necessary

- corrects a defect in the  BandModeProgress field used when pursuing the "Quixote Quest" (all 10,200 combinations of DXCC entity, band, and mode); to correct this field in existing Spot Database Entries, click the Recompute button on the Configuration window's "Spot Database" tab (tnx to Brian N8WRL)

- if the MSWinsock component cannot be installed, displays instructions that will enable it to be installed

- responds to left-clicking a Spot Database Entry by populating the textbox in DXKeeper's Filter panel with the Entry's callsign and by directing Pathfinder to perform a lookup (tnx to Don WB6BEE and Joe W4TV)

- in the WSJT-X panel on the Configuration window's "Spot Sources" tab, which controls direct interoperation with WSJT-X

--- provides the option to highlight the words 73 and RR73 in the WSJT-X Band Activity window with a specified font color

--- provides the option to automatically direct DXKeeper (version 17.1.4 or later) to upload QSOs logged via WSJT-x to your QRZ Logbook

- informs the user if Spot Database compaction is active when a QSO to log is received from WSJT-X; the QSO will be logged when compaction is complete

- in the "Size Control" panel on the Configuration window's "Spot Database" tab, provides a new option to prune the spot database to a specified maximum number of Entries

- when the Test buttons in the "Announced callsign phonetically" and "Sound Files" panels on the Configuration window's "Audio Alarm" tab are clicked, informs the user if the necessary folder or file does not exist (tnx to Brian N8WRL)

- recognizes and extracts both 4-digit and 5-digit POTA tags in spot notes (tnx to Dennis WB0WAO)

- checks grid square specifiers in spot notes - like CM87<>FN42 and CM87<TEP>FN42 - and interprets them correctly even if the spotting station has reversed the grid squares (tnx to Joe W4TV)

- updates the ConfigurationDatabase.htm, ConfigurationGeneral.htm, index.htm, SourceConnection.htm, SpotDatabase.htm, and WebBrowser.htm, WSJTXInteraction.htm documentation files

Notes:

1. Update your firewall and anti-malware applications to consider the new versions of SpotCollector.exe to be "safe" 

   a.  0/14 Jotti scanners detected malware in SpotCollector.exe or SC_WSJTX.exe

   b.  0/72 VirusTotal scanners detected malware in SpotCollector.exe; 2/72 VirusTotal scanners detected malware in SC_WSJTX.exe

   c. SpotCollector.exe and SC_WSJTX.exe have been submitted to "Microsoft Security Intelligence" and found free of malware. 

2. If this upgrade doesn't work correctly, see the "After an Upgrade" section of

   http://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/ApplicationStoppedWorking

3. After upgrading, to revert to the previous version of SpotCollector, see

   http://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/RevertApplicationVersion


SpotCollector 9.5.2 is available via the DXLab Launcher, and via 

http://www.dxlabsuite.com/download.htm


      73,

               Dave, AA6YQ