[Dx4win] LOTW vs DX4WIN Auditing
Are there any utilities out there that will produce a report of the differences between LOTW and DX4WIN results? I'd love to get out of this labor-intensive activity of going through and seeing which Mailed QSL's are unconfirmed on LOTW, and which Confirmed or Submitted QSLs aren't reflected on LOTW. And, of course, the LOTW credits that somehow aren't in DX4WIN. This printing-two-copies-and-mark-them-with-ink is a bit of a pain. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 18 05:26:48 2006 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PY5EG) Date: Sat Feb 18 05:28:40 2006 Subject: [Dx4win] NEW COMPUTERS USB INTERFACE Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Friends: I'm a frequent user of DX4WIN and Writelog interfaced by old lap tops with COM ports ,sending CW by LPT1. Some of those lap tops are in the end of its lives. I have the intention to use newest version of lap tops, and all of them with USB ports and some without a parallel port LPT. I'm sure that several of you already faced this problem before and I kindly ask your opinion on what is the best existent solution for it. Thanks in advance Oms PY5EG -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antiv?rus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo.
[Dx4win] Multiple Telnet Sessions
Is there any method for getting DX4WIN to permit more than one Telnet session? 73, Byron
[Dx4win] Backups of Logs
Maybe we could all agree to use BitTorrent and put our logs on a drive where we would automagically be the backup for each other? Maybe that's a little too cooperative? 73, Byron
[Dx4win] DX4WIN under Linux
Related to our interest in running DX4WIN under Linux, there was this new awareness annoucement, and current releases claim to run native windows DLLs if you have them. Not sure everyone has tried that, or if 6.04 inclusion of a driver interferes with that option. If so, maybe we can get a 6.04L without that embedded driver? 04/06/2005 Wine-Probe Initiative http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2005/04/0120.htmlArchive News David G?mbel announced: A while ago we were debating an initiative named Wine-Probe[1] (which would roughly equal Wine-tasting in english) on wine-devel that was in the making between Wirtschaftsf??rderung Region Stuttgart GmbH and us (ITOMIG). Its goal is to make local software vendors aware of the potential business opportunity in a Wine-based port or a Wine/Linux version of their software. It's also designed to be beneficial for the Wine project as a whole, e.g. by providing AppDB entries and success stories. This is to let you know that we've officially launched the initiative by today. It has already made it into several (german speaking) news sites[2], so I'd say things look promising. We're looking forward to the interest and feedback we'll get in the weeks to come. * [1] http://www.winehq.com/site?issue=254#WINEprobe%20Initiativehttp://www.winehq.com/site?issue=254#WINEprobe%20Initiative * [2] http://www.golem.de/0504/37335.html (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golem.de%2F0504%2F37335.htmllangpair=de%7Cenhl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8prev=%2Flanguage_toolsGoogle translation )br * http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2005/7996.htmlhttp://www.pro-linux.de/news/2005/7996.html (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pro-linux.de%2Fnews%2F2005%2F7996.htmllangpair=de%7Cenhl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8prev=%2Flanguage_toolsGoogle translation )br * http://www.pc-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=37335http://www.pc-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=37335 (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pc-magazin.de%2Fcommon%2Fnws%2Feinemeldung.php%3Fid%3D37335langpair=de%7Cenhl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8prev=%2Flanguage_toolsGoogle translation )
[Dx4win] LPT Keying under 6.04
LPT keying seems to work under Windows 2000 without userport or directio. Is this as expected? Any issues? 73, Byron
[Dx4win] Linux/WINE Survey
Good news on 5; what seems wrong with 6? At 06:40 PM 3/16/2005, Jeff Steinkamp wrote: I was finally able to get my Linux installation running today and version 6.04 does not run under the latest version of wine. I did find that version 5.03, my last version does run and if you have the sound card installed correctly under Linux, it appears that PSK will sort of function. Running wine under a Fedora Core 3 installation. Jeff Steinkamp - N7YG Tucson, AZ SCUD Missile Coordinates N32-13-52 W110-52-15 http://home.earthlink.net/~jksteinkamp http://n7yg.webhop.org ___ It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial costs and blamed it on the high cost of living. - Original Message - From: ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 04:41 Subject: [Dx4win] Linux/WINE Survey Is anyone successful in using the Linux Windows emulator to run DX4WIN 6.04 or any earlier version? Thanks! 73, Byron ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] Linux/WINE Survey
Is anyone successful in using the Linux Windows emulator to run DX4WIN 6.04 or any earlier version? Thanks! 73, Byron
[Dx4win] QSL Comments
I think this is a great idea. I've always wondered why the only things you can put on the label are groupname and the first word of the Callsign Notes field. Why not field the QSO Notes entry, too? Thanks, David. At 04:01 AM 2/18/2005, David Tingler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have suggested a new QSL Comments feature to Paul a couple of times and I don't know if my email is getting through. I thought if I posted here there might be some interest. This feature would allow QSO specific comments to be entered along with the QSO and then printed at the bottom of the label in the Group Name area. This could be frequency, QRP power, County or other contact specific information.
[Dx4win] Pt 2 Print log for DXCC with Multi QSO's on QSL
I use Excel and add a counter field that tells me how many times a callsign appears in my list. I hold two printouts, one sorted by band/mode and one sorted by callsign. Then I can tell which band/modes I need from a given card. This worked well for 1000+ cards. 73, Byron At 04:01 AM 2/17/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is it remotely possible for a computer program to know if your confirmations are on the same card?
[Dx4win] Re: Dx4win] DX Cluster Drop
There isn't a solution readily available, since this is typically an ISP inactivity timeout. I've sometimes found that using a DXcluster node on a different ISP helps. Opening the packet window and hitting ENTER helps, or running Tardis with really aggressive time sync settings. 73, Byron At 04:01 AM 1/17/2005, John, KC9JS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got the same problem. Does anyone on the reflector have a solution? -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 7:38 PM This could be old news, but my TCP/IP connection drops out after only a few minutes online with the DX Cluster. I am looking for the adjustment, if any to keep this from happening.
[Dx4win] Change Rig parameters?
John: Allowed Value Tables - what I great new concept! I'll bet anything that it catches on! chuckle Not sure why the software we buy doesn't use the same standards that the commercial industry has understood for years. sigh But I second your motion on this one! 73, Byron At 04:01 AM 1/2/2005, J. F. Samuels wrote: I've found it easier and more accurate to let it default to RTTY and just type, PSK31 in the Notes for this QSO field. I think, as a former programmer, that I would like to see dynamic fields, such as Mode, be loaded from a user-maintained table. And, the frequencies associated with setting a mode could be there as well. 3500 3570 CW 3570 3374 PSK31 3574 3580 PACTOR 3580 3628 RTTY A very Happy New Year to all the DX4WINners! John, K2CIB
[Dx4win] New Year Resolution
Speak this pledge aloud: I resolve to edit my reflector postings to the best of my ability, removing unneeded footers and headers so that everyone who gets the reflector's messages doesn't need to page through all the excess mess and store it on their own computers, thereby in my small way making the world a little better place. This I resolve. Thanks!
[Dx4win] Bug - Logbook Field Upload
Happy New Year! I reported a bug in (v6.03) the Logbook view this weekend. It seems that my use of Uploazd Confirm as a field in my Logbook view gets set to and populated with the Upload Date when I start DX4WIN. If I go into the Report Editor and simply click OK, it gets set properly to the Upload Confirm again. Anyone else? 73, Byron
[Dx4win] report printing/landscape
This has been true since 6.03 was released. I completed a bug report and posted the finding here as soon as I loaded the new release. The workaround that I've used is to output to Adobe Acrobat and use Adobe to print - I know few people have the authoring Acrobat installed, but I was lucky enough to be able to use this workaround. You might find some other intermediate form that works for you. (Excel, SunOffice, etc) I understand the fix is in a patch that is soon to be released. 73, Byron At 04:01 AM 1/1/2005, Steve-KF2TI wrote: I have tried to print out my 2004 logbook and normally (the older versions), I set my printer to print in landscape mode.
[Dx4win] DXCC Submission
When I do a submission, I noticed that it seems to default to mixed, leaving Confirmed QSOs in both PHO and CW summary reports. I can't get them to be Submitted. Can I do it by setting the existing list of Submitted QSOs to Credited and then faking a second submission? Naturally, I would merge the three (Mix, PHO, CW) resulting submission logs. Thanks! 73, Byron
[Dx4win] INRAD 70MHz IF Amp Yaesu FT-1000MP Front End Mod
Someone asked me about the eBay auction for the International Radio IF Amp. Here is the link again, although it is the first time I posted it here in hopes it reaches the person who asked me. Sorry for off-topic. 73, Byron http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1502item=5737577504
[Dx4win] moving log from 1 computer to
Here's what I do: 1. Create a filter on the shack computer to show only the QSOs that are AFTER the latest QSO on the other computer. Export the filter-ed QSOs to a floppy. 2. Import the exported QSOs from the floppy to the other computer. 3. Make a full copy of the other computer database. Copy it to disk on the shack computer. Open it. Immediately do Backup. Done. It gets more compilcated if you need to merge QSL Managers, etc, but there are details on the AD1C website - a highly worthwhile site. 73, Byron At 04:01 AM 12/13/2004, S. Markowski Jr. wrote: I've done this before, don't remember how, and can't find it in the manual. I have DX4Win on both my shack and laptop computers.(same version, 5.020 I need to copy and move my log file from the shack machine to the laptop, and so far haven't gotten it right. Some of the error messages(or most common is) unknown version of log or logfile. If someone knows what I'm doing wrong, please fill me in. Besides having a spare log somewhere, I take the laptop on trips, to work,etc to work on back qsl's etc. Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks and 73,
[Dx4win] Figuring Out What I Submitted?
Have you linked your DXCC to LOTW? If so, it's as easy as downloading from the site. If not, you'll need to ask for a report. At 04:01 AM 12/8/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've managed to screw up my DXCC submission, so I need to figure out what (actually, who: call/band/mode/date) I've already submitted and have had approved. Is there a way find this information and put it into a file? I can't seem to find this in the Report Editor or Log
[Dx4win] DX4WIN 6.03 DXCC Submission
Paul: I don't understand, and I apologize. If I have one QSO that qualifies me for a new DXCC SSB and a new DXCC for 17m, I think it will only output one QSO for submission. All QSOs are output as band/mode contacts. Otherwise, what would the DXCC SSB QSO be output as? 73, Byron At 01:52 PM 12/5/2004, Paul van der Eijk wrote: Brian, Looking at your log for prefix=V6 You have one QSO V63EC/P 17M CW This QSO was checked for mix, band and mode You have one entry in the submission for V6: V63CQ 10M SSB This single QSO is used for 10M AND for SSB There should be additional entries in your submission that are used twice or three times like the one above. Hope this explains the difference, -- Paul --- At 09:54 PM 12/2/2004, ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx wrote: Has anyone found issues with the DXCC award submission? I'm confused that it generates a listing of 1,207 QSOs, but the summary will say it has 1,175 submitted afterwards. Any thoughts on the missing 32? It looks like DX4WIN is simply taking the Confirmed Total and subtracting the Checked total to get the Submitted number, but the QSL listing has more. Any ideas why? I'm sure I'm being dumb or tired, but I don't get it. 73, Byron PS. And if anyone knows an easy way to get the details of your LOTW QSLs printed for cross-checking, I'd love to hear about that. ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Paul van der Eijk (KK4HD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dx4win.com
[Dx4win] DX4WIN 6.03 DXCC Submission
Has anyone found issues with the DXCC award submission? I'm confused that it generates a listing of 1,207 QSOs, but the summary will say it has 1,175 submitted afterwards. Any thoughts on the missing 32? It looks like DX4WIN is simply taking the Confirmed Total and subtracting the Checked total to get the Submitted number, but the QSL listing has more. Any ideas why? I'm sure I'm being dumb or tired, but I don't get it. 73, Byron PS. And if anyone knows an easy way to get the details of your LOTW QSLs printed for cross-checking, I'd love to hear about that.
[Dx4win] Upload Confirmed Field
You have the option to update this with your download so you don't go looking for the QSL card for a submission. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. 73, Byron At 04:01 AM 11/10/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is the purpose of the Upl Cnf field when using LOTW?
[Dx4win] LOTW Stats versus DX4WIN
I notice that my LOTW stats don't match my DX4WIN stats. I have previously downloaded my upload results, but now I struggle in preparing a major submission. Since the LOTW doesn't seem to support rtf downloads and the report is sorted by country name in LOTW, does anyone have a good suggestion for preparing a submission? Right now, I'm thinking I just let DX4WIN generate my worst-case 1,000+ QSL submission, export that and delete the rows that represent a LOTW pending QSL. Then use LOTW to submit for the pending and the added count of what DX4WIN says. Then, let ARRL sort things out on their end. Not cheap, but removes the risk of card losss, etc, from my end. I don't see any way to change Upload Confirmed to Submitted so I can do a multi-QSO change, and I can't get the related filtering to work in updating large numbers of QSOs. Any suggestions? 73, Byron
[Dx4win] QSL Label Editing Bug v6.03
If I attempt to change the font on a standard QSL label while my log is open, the thread zero (0) process of DX4WIN jumps up to peg my CPU and never comes back. This happens when I click the button to close the window (OK, Cancel, etc). If I have the database closed when I edit the label everything works fine. It hurts when I do this. So, don't do it. Yeah, I know, but shouldn't the software stop some other way than pegging the meter? 73, Byron
[Dx4win] SWL Labels
I received several responses to my note regarding the use of the Print SWL Labels capability in DX4WIN. Some instructed me on how to use it. Thanks, but I didn't find anything wrong with what I was doing. But I really do appreciate the effort to help. Others asked what I was trying to accomplish. Let me describe again what is happening: I have never operated RTTY. And when I attempt to Print SWL Labels about two dozen labels show up in Preview, but randomly they have their MODE set to RTTY. When I check the logbook for that date and time (no callsign shown other than the SWL) there are QSO's but the mode isn't RTTY. So, I'm trying to locate the SWL entries so I can correct the MODE and print the labels. Oh, and make sure everything else on the label is correct. 73, Byron
[Dx4win] SWL Reports
Can anyone tell me where the SWL report records are stored? I'd like to be able to use DX4WIN to print the labels, but I can't get it to output the proper mode. 73, Byron
[Dx4win] LOTW Upload Confirm/Submit/Awarded
While I suspect this is going to be a nightmare for a short time, does anyone know a trick for getting the ARRL LOTW Awarded information into your DX4WIN database? I completed the roundtrip to get my ADI download and import it using duplicate QSO sets Upload Confirmed which is great, but those are also Awarded and I can't seem to use filters (10m, Upload Conf = Y) to do a mass QSO update. So it seems like I need to do a Submission, which will be a mess since I would need to manually set every QSL that was previous done (prior to DX4WIN and LOTW, too). It feels like I have years of work ahead of me to get LOTW and DX4WIN in-sync, since DX4WIN will need me to specify the specific QSO that was submitted and awarded and that detail doesn't seem to be readily available electronically. Ideas? 73, Byron
[Dx4win] Auditing your QSL Status
When you ask about easy ways to check your QSL status, it becomes obvious that easy is a relative term. Right now, I am pursuing several awards, and I'm using the group/groupname feature to make this a little more cost effective for me. Rather than use groups for location, equipment, etc, I set them to awards of interest. 0. All QSOs in File, a surpressed groupname string. 1. New DXCC 2. New DXCC CW 3. New DXCC SSB 4. New DXCC 160m ...etc... I use twenty numbers now, including Our Recent QSO, ur Special Event Station and New IOTA. That I could easily expand if I cared to track each band/mode discretely but I don't. Also, I've standardized my QSL Method values, so that I can search on USA Managers (using QSLsvc) and make the foreign QSL Method either Direct or BURO. Then I went through a DXCC report, clicking on the ones that I need. By using F! in the QSL/Group field, I was able to go through a few thousand QSOs in not-too-long a time. When the QSL arrives, before I set the confirmed flag, I be sure to cancel any conflicting new ones by setting their group to zero or the appropriate alternative. For example, if I had it set to New DXCC 17m and a 17m SSB arrives, any 17m SSB go to zero, but 17m CW goes to New DXCC band/mode. Periodically, I can check what I'm looking for for each band, or mode, or whatever I've set the group number to. This makes logging the received cards a little more work, but it really helps me keep on top of what I need and where the cards are. I hope this helps or gives you some ideas to try. I'd love to hear any others. 73, Byron
[Dx4win] DX4WIN 6.03 Remote telnet Permission
Not surprising if you provide remote access permission by individual software package. DX4WIN 6.03 isn't the same executable that 6.02 was, so you need to give permission again. 73, Byron At 01:21 PM 5/31/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with the packet cluster I was having was attributed to firewall software. What was strange was the firewall allowed me to run the packet cluster on a previous version of dx4win and also on outside programs like dxtelnet, but it would not allow me to access the packet cluster nodes on dx4win version 6.03 for some reason. It would just not allow it. So I shut down the firewall temporarily till I find a solution. But all is working now and once again wish to thank everyone who contributed toward solving this frustrating dilemma. 73's to all. john-n3drk
[Dx4win] BUG? Date/Timestamp on QSLs
I guess it COULD, but I'm not aware of any setting for that in DX4WIN. Is that new? At 10:40 PM 5/30/2004, Alan C. Zack wrote: Could it have anything to do with the difference between Zulu (GMT, etc.) time and your local time? Is your DX4WIN set to Zulu time? 2100 your local time (9:00 p.m.) would be the next day in Zulu time if you are in the USA. ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx wrote: At 9:00 PM EDT on 05/29/2004 I printed 100 QSLs. When I approved the printouts, cleared the print flags and set the QSL date, all QSLs were dated 05/30/2004.
[Dx4win] BUG? DX4WIN makes QSL UTC adjustment
Well, not a real problem, as long as you know it's wrong, since I mail things locally, not in someplace UTC. At 04:58 PM 5/30/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:00 PM EDT on 05/29/2004 I printed 100 QSLs. When I approved the printouts, cleared the print flags and set the QSL date, all QSLs were dated 05/30/2004. I saw this the first time I printed under 603 but thought I'd imagined it. Not this time, though. Byron, Print Date is UTC time (i.e. 0100z on the 30th). DX4WIN only knows UTC time. Is this a real problem?
[Dx4win] BUG? Report Output Overrides Landscape?
My workaround is to use Adobe Acrobat as my printer, and then print it on my printer from Adobe, which probably isn't an option for most folks. But Adobe forces a wider margin, so some of the right end of the report can be lost. At 04:58 PM 5/30/2004, AD1C wrote: Am I missing something? Under 6.03, all my reports come out under portrait orientation, even though I have the printer set to landscape. Byron, I just tried it using an HP 4050 laser printer. Got Portrait when I had selected Landscape. Sounds like a bug. 73 - Jim AD1C
[Dx4win] BUG? Elbidurcular manifests qwarkus
Fallen off the meds tonight, Malcolm? At 09:53 PM 5/30/2004, Malcolm Ringel wrote: Good grief guys .I mean sheesh ! Get a grip somewhere/somehow. Good luck to all and may your seemingly endless problems resolve in some comprehensible manner so that you can get back to ham radio, should that still be of any interest to you. As always, 73 to most.
[Dx4win] Printing in Landscape Orientation
Am I missing something? Under 6.03, all my reports come out under portrait orientation, even though I have the printer set to landscape.
[Dx4win] BUG? Date/Timestamp on QSLs
At 9:00 PM EDT on 05/29/2004 I printed 100 QSLs. When I approved the printouts, cleared the print flags and set the QSL date, all QSLs were dated 05/30/2004. I saw this the first time I printed under 603 but thought I'd imagined it. Not this time, though. 73, Byron
[Dx4win] QSL Label Printing Speed
Does anyone know a trick of two for speeding up the printing of pages of QSL labels? I'm using Avery 5160's and it takes F O R E V E R to spool the print job and eventually print. It looks beautiful on my parallel port HP laser 4MP, but it is S L O W. Any trick to that? This under Windows 2000 and DX4WIN 6.02 and 6.03 I *do* download softfonts. 73, Byron
[Dx4win] QSL Filtering Question - New Ones
I'm probably a bit dense here, but how do I most simply filter QSO's so I can set label=y to QSL the contacts that I have worked but haven't yet mailed any QSL for that band/mode? I attempted to filter band=80m confirm=n but I can't figure out how to get QSLdate=NULL for the filter. 73, Byron
[Dx4win] Canvas does not allow drawing
Msg 'Canvas does not allow drawing' Q: What does the error message 'Canvas does not allow drawing' mean? A: you may have run out of resources, which means a new DC cannot be allocated. Usually this is a result of not freeing unused DCs or other objects you are attempting to draw to an device context that is not yet valid. Such as in the create constructor of a component. you are trying to draw on a canvas while your last draw-operation has not finished yet. In this case you can use Canvas.Lock or Canvas.TryLock to fix it.
[Dx4win] dxbase query
I'd like to hear from anyone, off reflector, who has recent release experience with DXbase. Thanks! 73, Byron
[Dx4win] v6.0.3 Beta Question
Does the 6.0.3 Beta support the latest command interface to the M Squared rotor controller? Byron
[Dx4win] WAZ Report is Defective.
Thanks. I hope the M2 Rotor Controller fix in in there too. 73, Byron At 09:46 PM 4/17/2004, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: At 09:22 PM 4/17/2004, ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx wrote: Any idea why the WAZ Award submission doesn't include the time field? I found out today, at the checker, that it is required on the application. Byron, I think this was one of the things that was listed as fixed in 6.03, beta coming out soon. 73 - Jim AD1C
[Dx4win] WAZ Report is Defective.
X-Originating-IP: [64.72.159.34] From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Returned mail: delivery problems encountered Date: 18 Apr 2004 1:00:36 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A message (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) was received at 18 Apr 2004 1:00:28 +. The following addresses had delivery problems: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Permanent Failure: 554_Service_unavailable;_[204.127.202.56]_blocked_using_bl.csma.biz,_reason:_http://bl.csma.biz/cgi-bin/listing.cgi?ip=204.127.202.56 Delivery last attempted at Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:00:35 - Reporting-MTA: dns; comcast.net Arrival-Date: 18 Apr 2004 1:00:28 + Final-Recipient: rfc822; dx4win@mailman.qth.net Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 554_Service_unavailable;_[204.127.202.56]_blocked_using_bl.csma.biz,_reason:_http://bl.csma.biz/cgi-bin/listing.cgi?ip=204.127.202.56 Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Permanent Failure: Other undefined Status Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:00:35 - Received: from dh664f01.arrl.net (pcp03799470pcs.malvrn01.pa.comcast.net[68.34.243.167]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id 20040418010028012001acl3e (Authid: NZ3O); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:00:28 + Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.3.0 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 21:00:25 -0400 To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net From: ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WAZ Award Fields Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Any idea why the WAZ Award submission doesn't include the time field? I found out today, at the checker, that it is required on the application. I'm guessing I can edit the report, but should I need to? 73, Byron
[Dx4win] M2 2800 RS232 Protocol Update
Confirmed, for those if anyone interested. 73, Byron From: Wyatt Lyzenga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Byron, Yes the protocal has changed. We are currently working with the other software designers to have them update their software. We were unaware of the changes at the time the new board was built. We are working quickly to have company's like DX4WIN and WRITElog get up to speed. Regards, Wyatt - Original Message - snip One question, though: Did you change the RS232 interface protocol at all? Neither DX4WIN nor WRITElog seem to work with it now. DX4WIN can't give it three digit numbers for direction. It only takes the first two (which means it can't automate a turn beyond 35 degrees). I'm guessing the next command is ignored because there is still a character out unused. Then the next command works, up to two digitis, and so on. In WRITElog, I had less success. HYPERterm works as documented in the new manual pages. snip
[Dx4win] DX4WIN with M2 Controller
I have an M2 2800 Azimuth controller that was recently upgraded to the latest release of the main board. When I connected it back to the serial port on my PC I experienced the following: 1. When I use F11 to turn the antenna, only the first two digits of a direction greater than 99 are used. So, attempts to turn to 330 result in the antenna pointing to 33. The next push of F11 results in no response. The third push (assuming you use a different azimuth) moves it just like the first push. And so on. (It seems like maybe the M2 protocol changed?) 2. When I use HYPER terminal, I simply type 330 and things work fine. This tells me the current protocol is numberenter. Is that what DX4WIN has always used, or is this a change? TIA, 73, Byron
[Dx4win] CW Hesitation in Win98
On my Win98SE system, I needed to disable the Windows scheduler or this would occur at the least desirable moments. But, in my case, it didn't just happen at the start of the CW transmission. As others have suggested, I'd look to Windows before I looked to TT. 73, Byron At 04:04 AM 1/8/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend who had just received an Orion has found difficulties with DX4WIN as follows: 1. Sometimes when sending CW from the DX4WIN keyboard, he sees long delays (1-2 seconds) before sending commences. It never stutters once it starts, but occasionally hesitates.
[Dx4win] USB RamDrive
I've toyed with the idea of just putting my dx4win database on the USB drive. Anyone tried this? At 01:53 PM 12/12/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to use a ZIP but have since changed over to a USB Jumpdrive. I have a small batch file that zips the entire /save directory and copies it onto the jumpdrive. I have a copy of pkzip in the save directory and an icon on the desktop that calls this batch file:
[Dx4win] Floppy Prices and Capacity
Who sells a 256MB floppy today? At 01:53 PM 12/12/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Floppies are a little cheaper than $60 each :-) I've used the batch file technique for some time with my laptop. One desktop shortcut is the batch file that coppies from my laptop drive to the USB ramdrive and a second desktop shortcut is to copy from the ramdrive to my LAN (which is actually archived). But now I'm actually experimenting with putting the original data on the USB drive to see how configurable software is and how well it performs over that USB interface. No progress to report with either WRITElog or DX4WIN yet. 73, Byron
[Dx4win] Contacts versus Conversations
Once I work them all, I hope to go back and have actual QSOs with all of them. That should take quite awhile. 73, Byron At 01:53 PM 12/12/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Working them all? Have you? If so, how about doing it QRP? :-)
[Dx4win] ADIF to CSV Conversion
I found the website directions for converting a spreadsheet to ADIF, but does anyone know of a utility that can convert ADIF to CSV for import to Excel? I'd like to convert my LOTWresults file into a clean and sortable report, without mixing it with my real log. 73, Byron
[Dx4win] LOTW Awards Interface
Since we can now batch ADIF out to the LOTW, what are the chances that a automated QSO-by-QSO upload will be provided? Also, what about the future ability to update awards shown in DX4WIN with awards to be displayed on LOTW? 73, Byron
[Dx4win] Dx4win and LoTW
Once you get past the authentication (postcards, passwords, etc) everything is pretty easy. I was impressed with how quickly I was about to upload 11,000 QSOs, but not impressed with the turnaround time in the authentication process. But that's a once-per-callsign process, so it's more than tolerable. And the multiple callsign support is much better than eQSL.cc was, since they can't associate callsigns together for awards purposes. 73, Byron At 04:02 AM 11/12/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any problems with uploading or whatever I need to be aware of before I start this?
[Dx4win] Priorities.
I'm good with this. At 04:02 AM 9/3/2003 -0400, you wrote: The priorities I suggested earlier seem to embody these requirements: 1 = never worked 2 = never worked mode 3 = never worked band 4 = unconfirmed mode 5 = unconfirmed band Does this make sense to everyone?
[Dx4win] Duplicate Spots
When I spot a station, my spot appears (without the sending station callsign) immediately and doesn't disappear when the packetcluster spot arrives. So each one of my spots appears twice if I don't work the station and log it. I don't think I ever changed any config items related to this. Byron
[Dx4win] DX4WIN on Network Share
Has anyone attempted to use DX4WIN on a network share drive? 73, Byron
[Dx4win] Re: Dx4win digest, Vol 4 #169 - 10 msgs
I thought this, too, but found that when I went with just one box checked, I got what I expected. At 04:02 AM 6/8/2003 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried numerous settings under Preferences to no avail. Changing the bands within PREFERENCES seems to have no effect on the submission listing produced.
[Dx4win] Serial versus LPT Keying
Does serial port keying exhibit the same stutter that you sometimes encounter with LPT keying? I'm planning toinstall a 4-port serial card in my PC, and I'll chance over to serial keying if that eliminates the problem. (Please, no notes about removing all software expect your logging software - I know all about that. Not an option now.) 73, Byron
[Dx4win] LOTW Date Guideline Noted
Thanks, David. I'm trying this right now. 73, Byron At 01:26 PM 5/18/2003 -0400, K2DBK - David wrote: What you can do is to specify a filter before you use the export function; if you do that, you'll get asked if you want to use the filter for the export. Set up a filter for QSOs only later than 01-Jan-1998 and it should only export those QSOs. You can re-submit you log if it cut you off due to errors, you may just get some duplicate entry warnings but they are harmless. At 11:47 AM 5/18/2003, ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx wrote: I guess I missed this in the Beta guidelines, which means I need to delete several thousand QSOs from the ADIF file. That would have been good to catch before I submitted things. Error in record 12: QSO date 1990-05-13 00:08:00Z is prior to the earliest the system is presently accepting (1998-01-01 00:00:00Z)
[Dx4win] LOTW Success! Thanks for Help!
Generating the signed file seems very CPU intensive here. I'm running a workstation and it pretty much consumed everything here until that step finished. It created a 1.5 MB file. That's big. Any idea what 16 QSLs entered means? Is that matches to others in the Beta? (Seems like a low hit rate.) 73, Byron 2003-05-18 17:25:51 LOTW_QSO: Successfully processed 7815 QSO records in 118.334361 seconds 2003-05-18 17:25:51 LOTW_QSO: 9 records were duplicates 2003-05-18 17:25:51 LOTW_QSO: 16 QSL records entered 2003-05-18 17:25:51 LOTW_QSO: 1 error encountered
[Dx4win] LOTW Success! Thanks for Help!
Thanks, Joe. Similar CPU speed here with workstation bus. I wonder how I find out when more QSO confirmations occur. 73, Byron At 10:00 AM 5/18/2003 -0800, Joe - WL7M wrote: The file size was consistent with mine, given the approximate number of QSOs we both entered. My PC's CPU was at nearly 95 percent - Dell 933 MHz - while it was processing - very CPU intensive. The 16 QSL records means that you have 16 confirmed QSOs. 73, Joe WL7M At 09:35 AM 5/18/2003, you wrote: Generating the signed file seems very CPU intensive here. I'm running a workstation and it pretty much consumed everything here until that step finished. It created a 1.5 MB file. That's big. Any idea what 16 QSLs entered means? Is that matches to others in the Beta? (Seems like a low hit rate.) 73, Byron 2003-05-18 17:25:51 LOTW_QSO: Successfully processed 7815 QSO records in 118.334361 seconds 2003-05-18 17:25:51 LOTW_QSO: 9 records were duplicates 2003-05-18 17:25:51 LOTW_QSO: 16 QSL records entered 2003-05-18 17:25:51 LOTW_QSO: 1 error encountered
[Dx4win] LOTW Feedback
Last night, things must have been down. Took until Sunday morning to get my reply to the EMail submission. Today, a slightly smaller log with few errors (one) took a couple of minutes. Do rejections just take longer? At 09:23 PM 5/18/2003 -0400, Pete Smith wrote: At 08:13 PM 5/18/03 -0500, Alan Braun wrote: This straight from the mouth of the ARRL guy who is in charge of the project. And also stated on the web site for the project. No matter -- the point right now is to find out if the system can handle fairly significant volume from a number of sources simultaneously. I hope everyone will help them test this aspect with LOTS of QSOs. 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF Contest Station Database was updated 9 May 03. Are you current? www.pvrc.org/wcsd/wcsdsearch.htm
[Dx4win] SWL labels
Any known bug that causes SWL Labels to change the mode from SSB to RTTY? Shouldn't SWL labels also show the station I worked?
[Dx4win] CTY Updates
How do I locate a very-current country file for DX4WIN? Byron
[Dx4win] Digest Software
Is there software that will merge daily digests for me into a single, consolidated digest?
