On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Tom Hammond K8BKM wrote:
> In the DX4WIN QSO window, in the upper right-hand corner is a display-only
> field that shows a logged station's Country|IOTA|GridSquare, Heading, and
> Distance. I would like to know if this information is saved as part of the
> QSO record, or if it's calculated on the fly.
On the fly.
> Is the distance calculation an internal algorithm that displays the value
> only, or is the data available to report on?
It's internal. Furthermore, the information you would need to
calculate distance to/from your location, i.e. latitude/longitude of
DXCC entity, state, Grid or IOTA, is internal to the program as well
(embedded within the country file). There's no way to extract that
information.
> If the answer is no (distance is not stored) then if I export my log data
> along with a grid square, does anyone know of a macro or external function
> that I could call from Excel to calculate to populate a distance column?
No but you could Google it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=distance+vucc+excel
It would only be useful with grid squares, unless you have tables of
geographic coordinates for the above-mentioned locations, and
understand the DX4WIN priority for deciding which set of coordinates
to use:
1. Grid
2. IOTA
3. State
4. Entity ("Prefix")
73 - Jim AD1C
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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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