Re: [Dx4win] Reflector Digest??
Hi Karl, Click on the link below, scroll down the bottom where it says Dx4win Subscribers, enter your email address and click on unsubscribe or edit options. After logging in, you'll get to a screen where you can set your list options, the first one controls whether you get individual emails or a digest. At 07:50 PM 10/12/2008, Karl Oyster wrote: Can someone explain to me how to get the DX4WIN info via a digest instead of individual emails??? ThanksKarl, K1KO ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK http://k2dbk.com http://k2dbk.blogspot.com ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] Typo in QSL manager box
Hi Karl, I believe that if you go to the earlier (by date) QSO that you had and change the manager, it should change the manager for all QSOs that follow, until there's a newer manager entered. As an alternative, if you go to File-Databases-QSL managers, you can go to the callsign in question and just change the data there. I think that the manager is actually part of the QSO record, but is pulled from the database when displayed/printed/etc. Hope this helps. At 11:37 AM 3/8/2008, Karl Oyster, K1KO wrote: Good morning, all... I goofed in putting in a manager's callsign and didn't realize it until after it was done. Unfortunately, I have several Qs with the station in question, and the goof went into each one's manager block. Anybody know how to correct the thing and make it stick? If I correct in one QSO, or just delete the manager's call, save the changes, etc., I still get the same manager's call because it's in all the other records, too. 73, Karl, K1KO 73, David - K2DBK http://k2dbk.com http://k2dbk.blogspot.com
[Dx4win] VP6DX shows Pitcairn
The easiest thing to do is when you work them, just put VP6/D in the prefix and it will be fine for that QSO and all future QSOs. If you want to do it in advance, log a dummy qso with VP6/D in the prefix field, then go back and delete it. The prefix change will stay. At 05:19 PM 2/24/2008, David Edwards wrote: VP6DX shows Pitcairn Island insted of Ducie. What is the best way to correct this? thanks de WB1S ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK http://k2dbk.com http://k2dbk.blogspot.com
[Dx4win] Connectivity to ICOM 756 Pro II
I've had a Pro-II connected to DX4WIN for years and have never had a problem. Make sure that you have CI-V Transceive set to OFF on the Others Set menu, because that can cause issues. I personally have my rig set to a baud rate of 19200 and the CI-V address set to 64h, and of course the settings match in DX4WIN. At 06:31 PM 2/16/2008, Russell Stevens wrote: Does anyone have an ICOM 756 Pro II that works correctly with DX4WIN? We are not using the CT 17/ICOM interface but are using a USB cable/port. We know the cable is working since it works with another log program perfectly and instantaneousely. We keep trying DX4WIN but the results are unpredictable. Sometimes you get the band/frequency information and sometimes you don't. I keep trying and am waiting for a reply from technical support but thus far no luck. Thanks for any help you can give a new DX4WIN user. Russell, WB4HHN Check out my web page: http://mysite.verizon.net/resumo8i/ ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK http://k2dbk.com http://k2dbk.blogspot.com
[Dx4win] Consolas font
Hi Jim, I couldn't find that font on my system, but a quick search turned up this page on the Microsoft web site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3displaylang=en You can download the font from there, and it looks like this might be designed specifically for Visual Studio 2005, so that might explain why those of us who don't have VS don't have it on their systems. Anyway, I downloaded it, installed it, and set it up as you suggested, and I agree that it looks like it's a perfect match. Thanks! At 11:24 AM 5/13/2007, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Today I discovered the Consolas font. It seems to be built into Windows XP and has the slashed-zero. I had previously been using Courier New, 9-point, bold and the Consolas font at 10 point, non-bold is just about a perfect match for size -- I did not have to re-size my spots or packet windows. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us 73, David - K2DBK http://k2dbk.com
[Dx4win] 7.03 label font selection broken? Or wrong font type?
At 12:18 PM 5/13/2007, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: A couple more questions: - how do I make unconfirmed QSOs print PSE QSL and confirmed QSOs print TKS QSL on the label? There are three blank lines under Greeting in the Rep/lab preferences, but they are otherwise unidentified. On the first line, mine says: @@ 73 de K2DBK The @@ gets changed to Tnx QSL/Pse QSL automagically, and the takes the info on from the Notes for this call, so if I were to send you a reqeust for a QSL and I had Jim in the Notes for this call field, it would say: Pse QSL Jim 73 de K2DBK or Tnx QSL Jim 73 de K2DBK as appropriate. I don't recall what the 2nd line is for (mine's blank), but the third line gets printed for SWL cards, so mine says: Thanks SWL report de K2DBK - how do I get rid of the Verified and printed by DX4WIN tag line on the bottom? Uncheck the box in the label editor that says Commercial. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK http://k2dbk.com
[Dx4win] Help, please
Hi Karl, If you click on Edit on the print labels screen (or choose File-Database-Labels and click edit), you'll find a checkbox labelled Commercial. Just uncheck that and you should be set. At 10:19 PM 5/4/2007, Karl Oyster, K1KO wrote: I know there's a way to eliminate the commercial (printed by DX4WIN) on the bottom of QSL labels, but try as I might, I can't find it. Can someone point me in the right direction Thanks and 73, Karl, K1KO 73, David - K2DBK http://k2dbk.com
[Dx4win] Date Range?
The other thing is that if you have QSO Date set to Range in Preferences (Preferences-QSO-QSO Date), then when you press F8 to do a search, after you enter one date, when you press Enter to start the search, you'll get prompted for the 2nd date. If you have the QSO Date field set to either Exact or Greater Equal (one of which is the default, I think; I changed mine long ago), you won't get prompted for a second date. Hope this help. 73, David, K2DBK At 10:05 AM 12/30/2006, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: At 09:55 AM 12/30/2006, W5LT wrote: There is a feature in DX4WIN filers that is supposed to filter QSOs over a range of dates. It is not clear how you implement the two dates in the filter window. There is only one date field. Can someone clarify for me? Hi Bob, It's a Group Selection. Filter - Selection Click on the Add button, change the name, enter the start/end dates, click the Date Filter box, then Update, then OK. 73 - Jim AD1C
[Dx4win] Re: Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files(Alan Zack)
Indeed. For instance, my zip code is 07675, which is listed officially as Westwood, NJ (where the main post office is located). However, I live in River Vale, and the zip code also covers Old Tappan. As it happens, the point where FN20, FN21, FN30, and FN31 meet is within this area, so you certainly can't tell your grid square from the zip code. A friend of mine gave out his grid wrong for a year or two because he took the value shown on qrz.com as correct. He got a new GPS one day, found that it would do direct readout in Maidenhead coordinates (grid squares), and discovered he was wrong. Oops. At 01:29 PM 11/23/2006, Garry Shapiro wrote: I believe the nominal zip is based upon the location of the post office corresponding to the zip code. So, if your zip code area is bigger than a postage stamp, there can be quite a discrepancy between the stated location and the actual location. Garry, NI6T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gregory Brown Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 7:04 AM To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Dx4win] Re: Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files(Alan Zack) Great point, and one that needs repeating! The QRZ grid info is automatically generated from, apparently, your stations's zip code (or town name?). In most cases, there are several small grids within each, so there is a good chance that the grid reported in QRZ is wrong unless people have calculated it themselves and changed the info. I imagine that there are many people out there that are reporting their own grids (over the air) that they just grabbed from QRZ.COM without confirming them, so you can't even be sure if what they send is correct! Since QRZ.COM is now the defacto reference for such things, everyone should make it a point to go there and update their info. Personally, I think that the grid square info on QRZ should default to blank and only report a grid square if we add it manually. If you can't depend on the accuracy of the data, why have it there at all?? Sorry, that's the scientist in me talking! Greg KT0K -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:03 AM To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Dx4win Digest, Vol 31, Issue 27 Send Dx4win mailing list submissions to dx4win@mailman.qth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Dx4win digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files (Alan Zack) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:03:14 -0800 From: Alan Zack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files To: Lee Hallin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed DX4WIN does this automatically for me using data from QRZ.com. When I log a USA station DX4WIN automatically goes to QRZ.com and looks up the station info for me and places it in the F3 Window. For example, on Veterans Day I worked some special events stations including K0AIR. As soon as I typed K0AIR into the Callsign window the following info appeared in my F3 window: K0AIR Strategic Air Command Memorial ARC Paul W Schleck P.O.Box 1292 Bellevue, NE 68005 Coord: 95.908W 41.149N Grid: EN21bd County = Sarpy USA If I am pleased with this info I press the UPDATE QSO button in the F3 window and this info is logged. The only time I have discovered a problem is in the CQP where people leave their home QTH and activate a county other than their home county. As noted, there is no guarantee that the QRZ.COM info is 100 percent correct as to county and grid info. As for myself, I did change my grid from the one assigned to my PO Box QRZ.COM address to the actual grid down the road from my PO Box to my actual street address. ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Frequency Logging
Under QSO, select Contest Mode and put $$ in the Text to add to Note field. You do not have to have contest mode enabled for that to work. At 06:22 PM 11/25/2005, Stan Staten wrote: Can some one remind me of the stuff to put in the Notes field to have it log exact frequency? It is likely in the docs, but I couldn't find it so I am taking the lazy approach and asking. Thanks Stan 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] n1mm
I just export from N1MM as ADIF and import ADIF into DX4WIN. Works fine. At 02:33 PM 9/10/2005, Mike Fulcher wrote: Has anyone created import filters for N1MM into DX4WIN? Mike KC7V ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] CW keying change in 7.01?
I recently converted from version 6.03 to 7.01. I noticed what seems to be a change (perhaps a bug) with CW keying. It seems that under this version, when I use the built-in keyer, PTT is behind triggered as well, which was not the case previously. System is Windows XP Pro, I have COM2 set up with PTT delay set to 0, DTR used for CW keying, and RTS for PTT. I know that setting PTT delay to a non-zero value is supposed to cause PTT to fire before CW keying, but that's not the case here. The net effect is that it makes the radio (Icom 756 Pro II) act like it's not in QSK mode (which it definitely is; using an external key confirms that there's nothing wrong with the radio itself). (I can hear PTT being keyed as I'm using a Rigblaster plus, and you can hear the relay click shut just before keying starts, and open when finished. This was not the behavior in previous versions.) I did a couple of tests to make sure that I wasn't missing anything: I turned PTT keying via RTS off, and the behavior returned to the old way. (Unfortunately, I need PTT to use PSK, so that's not a permanent fix.) I turned PTT keying back on, then turned CW keying via DTR off. When sending CW, PTT is engaged, but no CW is sent. I tried setting the PTT delay to a non-zero value, saved, then set it back to zero (figuring something was stuck somehow, but that didn't seem to change anything. None of my hardware has changed since I moved from 6.03, and indeed testing with that version shows correct behavior. I have migrated all my settings over, including the radio .RIG file, and have verified that all the settings are correct. Has anyone else seen this particular issue? Have I found a bug? 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] (no subject)
Gary: The P is Priority of the spot, and generally Black on White means I've worked this country/mode/band before but not this station.. For a better explanation, while in the spot window, press F1, and it will tell you all about this. (And in a better way than I can!) At 08:41 PM 1/24/2005, gary wrote: I am new at DX4WIN and it is great but will hv little questions from time to time. Two this time: What does the number under the p in the spot window mean??? Also in the spot window, what does the BLACK with white letters mean??? Black is not on the colors for DX spots chart in the HELP window. Tnx Gary K6JAJ 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] ADIF Import of LOTW
I can see this being useful as an option, with settings like: -Imported data does not replace existing data -Imported data completely overwrites existing data -Imported data only overwrites missing data -User is asked on a per-item/per-QSO basis You listening Paul? :-) At 04:34 PM 1/22/2005, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: At 02:45 PM 1/22/2005, J. F. Samuels wrote: I expected that importing the LOTW records would update fields such as State, County and Grid when they are blank. Did I do something wrong? Is there a preference? It does not do that. Ask Paul if you desire this feature - some may not want it. 73 - Jim AD1C 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Checking Spots without adding to QSO window?
Left-click on the spot, then right-click and select Listen. It's 2 mouse clicks (one left, one right), but better than 1 click then control-L. (For what it's worth, I wouldn't mind seeing something like double-right click to do this, or perhaps even using a click on the mouse wheel (if available). Better still (as long as I'm wishing), it'd be nice to make any of the right-click window functions assignable to a mouse click (left,middle, right). At 08:43 PM 1/19/2005, Tom Walsh wrote: Is there any way to just click on a spot and have DX4WIN tune the radio to the spot without also adding information into the QSO Window? A double click on the spot both adds the spot to the QSO window and tunes the radio. But if you choose not to work the spot (or can't hear it), you must manually delete the QSO. This is both time consuming and pretty inefficient. Wouldn't it make sense to just be able to first check spots without having to always manually delete them from the window each time you go to a new spot? I am unaware though how to do this in the current version. Can it be done?
[Dx4win] Band-specific custom awards
This morning, I figured that I'd be nice and answer the one (!) guy that I heard running in the 10-10 contest to give him the points. However, after entering his call (and yes, I was on 10m), I went down to the custom awards field to select the 10-10 award (so I could log his 10-10#), but it wasn't there. I checked the instructions for the custom awards file, and it occurred to me with the addition of support for 60m that the bands fields would be off (for ALL the awards...ugh). Anyway, I edited the .AWD file so that the 10-10 award entry now looks like this: [1010] ;Info K1AS awdname=TenTen bands=NYNN pictmsk=999 which added an N before the Y to account for the 60 meter band. It still isn't coming up (I did stop and restart DX4WIN). I'm pretty sure that I counted the right number of bands: 160,80,60,40,30,20,17,15,12,10,don't care after this NN N N N N N N N Y Can anyone shed any light on this? For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that this is the first time I've even tried to use custom awards since moving to 6.03. 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Freq. Selection on 6 meters
You need to edit the Radio information that shows what the highest frequency available is. To do this, go to File-Databases-Radio, and in the Edit Radio screen (it should be the one you're using), change the high frequency as appropriate. (Mine says 52,600 Khz). Remember to save changes, and you should be all set. At 05:13 PM 7/3/2004, Eric Lowell wrote: I don't have DX4WIN running on this computer, but it seems like I remember setting my access to expert in preferences and then modifying the radio file to solve this for my TS570. Good luck, Eric (W1EL) - Original Message - From: Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DX4WIN Dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: [Dx4win] Freq. Selection on 6 meters Hi to all, For some time now I have noticed that when I click on a spot in the spot by time window that I get a bad freq. message from DX4WIN. I am running a Icom 756. This only happens when operating on 6 meters. When selecting a spot on any other band all is OK. When operating on 6 meters I also notice that the correct freq. is recorded in the Notes for this QSO. The program seems to read the right freq. from the radio but does not accept as a good freq, therefore it does not change the freq. on the radio. Anybody had this experience or have a few words of wisdom? 73...Don...W4TO ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Fw: Antigen found VIRUS= W32/MyDoom-A (Sophos) virus
It's likely that this isn't due to anything you did. Many of the current viruses spoof the return address, so when they get caught by mail anti-virus software, it returns to the wrong place. (In other words, you might have never sent the email in question, but the software thinks that you did, so it tells you.) Unfortunately, you can't do much about this beyond what you're already doing (keeping your software updated). At 05:04 PM 1/30/2004, Dick White wrote: During the past week trying to solve my DX4WIN problem, I received this mail. I have no idea as to what e-mail it is referring to. I up date my Norton Antivirus every day and scan. I should not have sent out a virus. It appears that a virus has picked up my old e-mail address and is using it.. I would recommend that everyone check for a virus. 73Dick KS0M - Original Message - From: Antigen_GTW_MAIL2 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:43 PM Subject: Antigen found VIRUS= W32/MyDoom-A (Sophos) virus Antigen for Exchange found document.zip-document.pif infected with VIRUS= W32/MyDoom-A (Sophos) worm. The message is currently Purged. The message, hello, was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was discovered in SMTP Messages\Inbound And Outbound located at Beazer/GTW/GTW-MAIL2. 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Help
At 02:48 PM 1/7/2004, Paulini Kenn Cont AFRS/RSISQT wrote: I am having problems printing labels. Whenever I mark a QSO and then print the label (after saving!), I get one lable that says Method = Buro. This wastes two labels as it skips one and one has the message on it. Any ideas how to get the message to stop printing? 73 de W5KAP On the Print Labels dialog box, uncheck the Print Method Labels box. That will stop the Method=Buro label from printing, though I don't know why you'd be getting an extra label skipped. 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Downloads from LOTW ADIF
From the spec at http://www.hosenose.com/adif/adif.html CNTY C US County in the format STATE,COUNTY. For example GA,BARROW. Use CQ County list Looks like LoTW is wrong, I've cc'd them on this string of messages. At 07:37 PM 10/13/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/13/2003 3:09:51 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just downloaded my QSL's and imported them into a New Log in DX4-win 6.02. All USA stations with County information have errors on the import. I have examined the ADIF File as received from LOTW and the County Data is all correct. In 6.02 error message you appear to receive only the last 4-or-5 letters of the county name. If I request G3LZQ QSL' I receive my other registered call QSL's as well all as G3LZQ NOT the correct QSl's by call. Anyone else got same problems? John, For whatever reason (and I do not know which is correct) LoTW and DX4Win have different specs for the County info. LoTW is simply sending the county name. If you take a look at a DX4Win ADIF export, you'll see it prepends the State abbreviation to the county name, for example: LoTW cnty:9San Diego DX4Win cnty:12CA,San Diego I took a 5 QSO segment of my file received from LoTW and edited the county info to match the DX4Win spec above. It then imported without error. Obviously, somebody has to change something 73, Steve --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html --- ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] LoTW exports
Here's what's confusing you: On most Windows systems (Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP), there is usually an application associated with a file type. For example, files that end in .XLS are normally Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Double-clicking on an .XLS file will load that file into a copy of Excel and start running it. As a side effect of this, often the application's icon will get associated with the file type. Closer to home, the .DXL filetype is associated with DX4WIN so it has the DX4WIN logo associated with .DXL icons, and double-clicking on a .DXL file will start up a copy of DX4WIN using that logfile. What's apparently happened on your system is that Writelog is the application associated with ADIF files (those that end in .ADI), so double-clicking the exported file starts a copy of Writelog, and loads in that file. That's obviously not what you want to do. Fortunately, the associated file type is only what amounts to a suggestion, so you can load an ADIF file into anything that will accept it. What you want to do here (and as someone else already suggested) is not to double-click on the exported ADIF file, but to start your copy of TQSL, and tell it to sign the already-existing ADIF file. That will result in a .TQ8 file, which is what gets sent to the LoTW for processing. You can't just upload a plain ADIF file, it needs to be signed and compressed first. If that previous paragraph didn't make sense to you (especially the part about running TQSL), you should go to www.arrl.org/lotw and check out the Getting Started link, which will hopefully get you on the right track. (If you're really stuck, email me off the list and I'll try to walk you through the steps.) At 11:30 PM 10/6/2003, Donald Eriksen wrote: I did export from dx4win into a file (not WriteLog)using the ADIF exchange format, the first export option. However the Writelog logs were imported originally INTO dx4win using the WriteLog ADIF export, apparently there's something I don't understand about that process. I think dx4win is doing the right thing. Perhaps I'll have to query the WriteLog reflector and see if anyone is getting the same results, I know a lot of them are using dx4win. -- Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donald Eriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED]; K2DBK - David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LoTW exports At 10:52 PM 10/6/2003, Donald Eriksen wrote: I think I wasn't too clear as to what my problem was. I did exactly the steps outlined below, David (and others), I just saved it to a location to try out the process before going on with the LoTW upload process. What confuses me is that the file saved as a WriteLog ADI file (has the WL symbol) and when I open the file, it opens WriteLog and I get a message Invalid File Format. OK, why WriteLog? Maybe this is a stupid question, but I don't understand why you're using that format. LOTW accepts ADIF and Cabrillo and the default DX4WIN export format is ADIF. Export your log in ADIF format and it'll work. In my DX4WIN installation, it's the first export format, labelled ADIF exchange format. -Rick ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Spots question w/6.02
I noticed after upgrading to 6.02 that the country identifier from the spot cluster window shows up in the comments field in the spot window. It didn't do this until I went to 6.02 (I was at 5.03 I guess) and I haven't changed spot cluster and they haven't changed software. As an example, here's a spot as it came into the cluster window: DX de JA2XYO:21014.0 V51ASCQ CQ CQ CQ V5 1451Z JA and here's what it looks like in the spot window: 8 21.014.0 V51AS 14:51 CQ CQ CQ CQ V5 JA2XYO 06/07/03 Note that the V5 is in the comments field. It's not a major issue, but it's a little odd, since I don't remember seeing it before. Any idea how to make it either go away or at least let it go to the right side of the comment (as it does in the spot itself)? Thanks. 73, David - K2DBK --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- text/html (html body -- converted) The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ---
[Dx4win] LOTW
At 12:49 PM 5/18/2003, sm3dxc wrote: When I uploaded my log (in adif) I get the following answer: Your message did not appear to have a TrustQSL file attached to it. Whats=B4s wrong !! You need to upload the .TQ8 file that you get from signing the .ADI file,= =20 not the .ADI file itself. 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] LOTW Test
I had a similar problem with PSK...for some reason, while most of my PSK contacts are in the log as PSK31, a couple (probably manually entered) said PSK. I went into the log and changed those. There are still some modes that aren't supported (like PACK), so for testing, I excluded those from my upload. I found that I got very quick answers from Jon Bloom at ARRL when I sent him questions and comments at [EMAIL PROTECTED] My one overall comment to everyone is to keep in mind that this is beta software, meaning that there are some problems, and they seem to be aware of that. At 11:54 AM 5/17/2003, Joe - WL7M wrote: I just submitted my log to the ARRL LOTW, and ended up with these errors. About half of my log went through OK before hitting the maximum number of allowed errors. Looks like there needs to be a few automatic corrections in DX4WIN which happen should you elect to submit your log to the LOTW. I'm sure there will be an option forthcoming - perhaps after the beta testing is over - that will make that happen. 73, Joe WL7M 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Logbook of the World/DX4Win Translation Errors.
At 04:49 PM 5/17/2003, Terry wrote: Recently submitted some test logs to the ARRL Logbook of the World beta test. My return report indicated mode errors and eventually rejected my log submission. Extract follows! 2003-05-17 20:19:17 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 2315: MODE: Invalid value in field (PSK3) 2003-05-17 20:19:17 LOTW_QSO: Processing aborted: Maximum error count reached It appears that LoTW is looking for PSK31 which is not an available selection in DX4Win versio 6.02 or earlier. May have to expand the Mode field size to accomodate more discriptive mode entries in future versions to be compatible with LoTW. I have PSK31 available on mine.I think that in version 6 and up it moves the choices that you say that you don't work to the end of the scroll list; you might have to scroll to the bottom to find it, if you don't have it checked in your station setup as a mode that you use. (Check under File-Preferences-Station to select the modes that you work. I have my user level set to Expert, I don't know if that's a requirement in order to see this.) 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] works great! but FO0PT ??
I believe that the documentation says that they aren't really doing any validation for the beta test. At 05:34 PM 5/17/2003, N2TU wrote: All, Do you have to submit a certificate request for all the callsigns you've held?...if so, they may or may not be in the FCC database... Lou N2TU 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Additional Search Features
There's a freeware logging program called logconv (you can download it from http://www.qsl.net/ka5wss/logconv/ ) that will convert ADIF input files (which DX4WIN can generate) and many other types of input to Cabrillo and a bunch of other output types. I played around with this recently and while it doesn't do a perfect job, it gets it close enough so that for a very casual contest effort (such as some of those previously described), you'd get a log that you could submit. You'd likely have to do some relatively minor editing to the log file before sending it in, but it's certainly better than building a file by hand. At 09:56 PM 1/25/2003, Gary McConville wrote: Steve, I too am just a casual contester but would like a few cabrillo formats supported that could be modified in word/text format for the other contest parameters. DX4WIN32 fills all my logging requirements EXCEPT for the missing cabrillo output. Thanks for the clarification, Steve. Gary - WB4SQ --- Joe - WL7M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your clarification, Steve. Seems that what should be understood is that when I, as a DXer, participate in a contest, I'd just like to send in my log with as minimal fuss as possible. I've won contests for my section/state with as few as 5 QSOs. That's pretty casual. Yup - they are contest specific. Sure would be nice if there was the option to have at least a few major contests supported. My 2 centsYMMV. 73, Joe WL7M Hello all, You fellows need to understand that 'casual contesting' is geared toward the DX'er who is in a contest for new band and mode countries, with the focus on DX'ing, not contesting. It has nothing to do with contesting for the intent of contesting, at what ever level, but solely in support of the DX'er. Also, Cabrillo is not a 'one size fits all' thing. It is a contest specific format. Go to http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/qso-template.html and you will see what I am saying. At a minimum, there are 8 different formats. Although the date, time, mode, band info is stable, the rest of it is all over the place, depending upon the contest. It may be a different story if it was one specific file format, such as ADIF. But, even then, time permitting. If you need contest support from the contest perspective, get a program that's main purpose is contesting. I understand there are even one or two good ones which are freeware, which may be worth looking into. When I'm contesting, I use Writelog. 73 de Steve, NR4M --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.445 / Virus Database: 250 - Release Date: 1/21/2003 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/mixed text/plain (text body -- kept) text/plain (text body -- kept) The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html --- ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Search for blank field
John, Try using K as the prefix and use !* in the state field. (In other word you want to match ! (not) * (anything). At 12:54 AM 1/6/2003, J. F. Samuels wrote: I don't remember how to search for a blank state, for example -- all the K calls where I didn't fill one in. Does anyone know? 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Frequency entry in DX4WIN
I've been using $$ for quite some time but I've never seen the split frequency entered, either when using an Icom 706MkIIG or an Icom 756 Pro II. The Main VFO frequency is what's always there. Is there something else that needs to be done to get the split frequency to be entered (if split mode is in effect) as well as the main frequency? At 12:38 PM 12/7/2002, Wendell Wyly W5FL wrote: The program already keeps the exact frequency now! Simply put a $$ in the field that says text to add to qso note in the QSO/Contest Mode Window. The exact frequency including split frequencies will go into the Notes for this QSO and look like this: 21,021/21,025KHz Pretty slick and you won't have to wait for the next release. The program logic is extremely well done. 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] Frequency entry in DX4WIN
Thanks to all for the answer. I guess I should have known that. At 05:30 PM 12/7/2002, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: At 04:49 PM 12/7/2002 -0500, K2DBK - David wrote: I've been using $$ for quite some time but I've never seen the split frequency entered, either when using an Icom 706MkIIG or an Icom 756 Pro II. The Main VFO frequency is what's always there. Is there something else that needs to be done to get the split frequency to be entered (if split mode is in effect) as well as the main frequency? The ICOM command set does not allow software to tell if the radio is split or not. This has been driving software authors nuts for as many years as there has been computer control of ICOM radios. 73 - Jim AD1C 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] CW keyboard question
At 06:41 PM 12/3/2002, William Liporace - NA2NA wrote: I have seen a lot of messages, but yes DX4WIN does support serial keying I think the question is not whether DX4WIN supports serial port keying, but whether it supports the selection of a serial port different from the radio control port. Looks to me like it doesn't, and that would be a nice feature for the future. File | Preferences Radio Tab, CW Keyer and chose either DTR or RTS on radio port. This depends on the radio interface that you use and what pins are being used on the interface (look at the schematics) GL Will - Original Message - From: Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:41 PM Subject: [Dx4win] CW keyboard question After using DX4WIN for almost 10 years, I just got the urge to try the CW keyboard for the first time. To my chagrin, I find there is no choice of serial ports - it only uses the same COM port as the radio. This is the case in my version 4.07. Do the newer versions of DX4WIN support COM port selection for CW keying? Tnx, Barry -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newtown, PA Frankford Radio Club ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] 756ProII rig file
Greg, Thanks a million! That worked perfectly. I am curious though: Where did you find that tacking the 01 (or 02 or 03) would set the filter? I checked the manual, and the only thing I could find was that 06xx would set the radio to mode xx (which DX4WIN does a fine job of inserting). There's (apparently) no mention of specifying the filters that I could find. (I'm wondering what other tricks might be out there.) 73, David, K2DBK At 11:52 PM 7/27/2002, Gregory Brown wrote: David, I'm using an older version of DX4WIN and am using the IC-775 radio file with my IC-756 PROII, but this command should work for your setup, too. To get DX4WIN to call the wide CW filter (filter 1), change the Set Mode command string to 060001FD. This will call the wide filter for SSB, too. I like to have the radio go to wide filter when clicking a spot, because the frequencies for spots are sometimes not highly accurate. If you would rather call the medium or narrow filters (for some reason). use the command strings 060002FD and 060003FD, respectively. Greg KT0K
[Dx4win] Telnet via Cable Modem Timeout
I have the same problem, and I'm sure it's not RF-related, since sometimes when I've gotten disconnected I've been out of the shack (and not transmitting!) for some time. There are a couple of things to consider here: First, the Internet is not guaranteed to be 100% reliable to all locations (or in fact, generally speaking, to any locations) for the kinds of things we're talking about. There is a lot of infrastructure between your computer and the telnet cluster itself, and depending on a lot of things (more appropriate to an Internet Infrastructure reflector than here, so I'll skip that stuff), if any one of those little pieces shuts down you may loose your connection. The second thing is that it's possible that some clusters require some activity on the end-users part to keep the connection up. This is not just a response to a low-level connectivity check, but actual user input. The reason is that if the cluster has limited resources (memory, CPU, etc.) they might not want to keep lots of inactive users connected. I don't run a telnet cluster, but I'd be curious to hear from anyone who does as to whether they've got an inactivity timer available on the telnet connection to timeout inactive users. FWIW I have the same timeout problem as the others and it is definitly _not_ rf related because it only happens at a computer in my house which is 200 yards from the shack. The shack is not operational at that time, therefore no rf. The shack uses a two meter line which is rock solid. This would dismiss rf as the culprit for most timeout problems. 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] SWL labels
Ok Paul, thanks. I guess that makes sense. I didn't know what the SWL rules for QSL'ing were, I wanted to make sure that I didn't short-change the guy that I was sending the card to. At 05:24 PM 2/9/2002, Paul van der Eijk wrote: Depends who you ask, but I came to the conclusion that the SWL wants confirmation from you, not who you worked. The station(s) worked information helps to locate a QSO that you can use to supply the necessary info for the SWL, but the callsign does not need to be printed on the SWL label.. 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] SWL labels
I got a couple of SWL cards via the buro recently. I marked a QSO for SWL confirmation (via control-F2) and entered the SWL number. When I print (preview, actually) the label, I don't see the Callsign listed on the label. On the label, I see SWL: NL 12345 R89 (the SWL number that I entered), and then the regular contact information, but the call of the other station in the QSO (i.e., the one that I worked) isn't shown anywhere on the label. My two questions are: A) Should the other station's callsign be on the label, and B) if so, how do I get it there (other than resorting to using a pen!) Thanks 73, David - K2DBK
[Dx4win] New user with many questions
I'll take a couple of easy ones: For the KG4 calls that aren't in Gitmo, the K5K call that isn't US, and the Hawaii calls that are in KY FL (my personal favorite is the Alaska call in Louisiana): If you pull up those calls, in the Prefix field, just put in the correct real prefix. For example, for the KG4xxx calls, put in K, for K5K put in KH5K, etc. You can also fix those when entering by preceding (or following) the call with the correct Prefix, though I believe that if you put it in the Prefix field, it will be remembered for future uses of that callsign. One more I'll take a crack at: Regarding the buro cards, you do have to search, but the handy-dandy F2 key makes things much easier. If you go into File-Preferences, select the F2 Key tab. You can set the F2 key to mark the card as confirmed AND flag it for printing, and even whether to go direct, buro, etc. One handy tip someone told me is to make a scratch copy of your database, and play around with the functions on that one. If you mess something up, you can go back to the original log, save yourself another copy, and move forward from there. Good luck! At 11:06 PM 1/27/2002, William Hinkle wrote: 3. Hawaii calls that are in KY,FL? 4. KG4 calls that are in 4 land not Gitmo? 5. It told me K5K was a State Side call, how do I fix that? 7. I have about 600+ buro cards to take care of. How do I find each one of those QSO's to mark it as confirmed and to print a label? Do I have to do a filter for each one? 73, David - K2DBK
