The volunteers who write the Propagation Forecaset Bulletin cannot be expected to remember or even understand the rules that I use when parsing through the files to extract the data and insert it into the database.  For this reason there will be occasional parsing errors that show up, and this is not unusual or unexpected.  Between 1995 and 2002 there were about 370 bulletins released and I only know of 7 of them that would not parse correctly.  I think that Tad Cook and his volunteers did an admirable job of adhereing to rules that they didn't even know about.

This page will document each of the parse errors that I am aware of and how to get around the error.  You can get the appropriate bulletins from the ARRL web site  Be sure to save them as a "Plain Text" file or they will not work properly.

Version 3.11 of the software added provisions to automatically download the bulletin files from the ARRL FTP site and save them to your local computer after the bulletin data was inserted.  Due to an oversight on my part if there was an error parsing the data the file was not saved.  Version 3.12 will fix that problem, and should be released by the middle of January, 2002.

Also note that the format of the files that are saved uses a Unix line feed format at the end of each line.  The standard Windows editor NOTEPAD.EXE may not display the files properly.  If it does not, use a different editor such as WordPad and they should format properly.  Once again, be certain to save the files as "Plain Text" (or MS-DOS text with linefeeds) or the software may not be able to read them properly.