On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:33 AM Dick Grolleman PA3FQA wrote: > Windows 10 decided to do an update yesterday. After that DX4win wasn't > working any more. Lots of errors missing file and so on. > So I did a new install of DX4WIN and all works again, I do have my log ok. > The inly thing that goes wrong is that 3D2 Fiji is suddenly at 187 degrees > and only 7791 km away. > > 3D2/R Rotuma is still at 14 degrees and over 15000km away, what is right. > > What is wrong with the mapping of Fiji?
Dick, the IOTA for Fiji has had the wrong latitude/longitude for some time. I fixed this in the most recent country file release on April 18. The issue came to light recently when R207RRC operated from IOTA AS-207, which also had the same problem. I noticed it because the sunrise/sunset times did not make any sense. These four IOTA all had the same problem and were fixed: IOTA AS-027 IOTA AS-092 IOTA AS-207 IOTA OC-016 (Fiji) The IOTA database defines a latitude/longitude "box" inside of which the IOTA lies. In these four cases, the left-hand side of the box was to the WEST of the International Date Line, and the right-hand side of the box was to the EAST of the International Date Line. This caused the calculation of the center of the box to put it near 0 degrees longitude instead of near 180 degrees longitude. As it turns out, the IOTA Web Site at https://www.iota-world.org/ also had the same problem with their sunrise/sunset calculations. I notified them and it was fixed within a day. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html