Hi Jack. Yes, Bill helped me. Well, I went back to the HELP files. Amazing. I was doing something wrong again. GOWIN is working fine. I was assuming that the "QSL INFO" window would show me the manager info. Found out from the help files that to find the manager using GOWIN, you use the "DXINFO" window and hit the AUX tab. I might owe you another beer at Dayton if this keeps up.
So, CW was fixed by changing the LPT1 port in the bios setup from ECP to NORMAL. Fixed the HOSTS issue by cut and paste. Not going to worry about DXTelnet. Sounds like too much trouble after reading the instructions. Plenty to choose from in the HOSTS file. GOWIN is working. Tnx everyone for the help. Tony N2TK -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 21:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dxbase (E-mail) Subject: Re: [DXBase] 2003 - questions Tony, I think Bill addressed most of your questions, but here are a few more comments. 1. There is a section in the help file that tells you step by step how to set up your address CD data on your hard drive. You must set it up exactly as described or it will not work. Check out External Program Interfaces, Address CDs, CDs on your hard drive. Also check out the user options for Directory and also Log tabs. Everything is there. 2. There is no standard address for a LPT port. DXbase installs registry entries and uses a typical address for each port, but your machine may be different. The CW section of the help files describes all this. You should check the registry entry for your LPT and if the address of your actual port is different, you must change the entry that we used. Be sure you are not using same LPT for CW that you have for printing etc... If you intend to operate "serious" CW, we suggest looking at an external CW board such as the one available from makers of WriteLog. DXbase can interface with this and it sends perfect CW without any of the potential jerkiness that comes from Windows. Bill, yes, the internal CW interface seems to give the most trouble in terms of setup. For the most part, this is just the nature of the beast when you try to violate the Windows Operating System standards. And, it gets more and more difficult with each new release of Windows. Toggling leads outside of the standard Windows Architecture just isn't meant to be. Thus the need for special drivers like we use, but then with that comes a certain amount of user action required ( remember the infamous "some assembly required" ) to make our entries agree with their hardware... etc... I really believe that we will one day just remove the internal CW module and for those who want keyboard CW, they will have to purchase an external board and DXbase will interface with that transparently. That's really the way the architecture is intended to be and that's why those interfaces works easily with nearly no problem setting it up. But time will tell. 3. You can use DX Telnet with DXbase. Fab has created a document with instructions for how to do this and you can access it from the news page of our web site on the right hand side. However, unless you have some special need, there really isn't any reason to use DX Telnet with DXbase. You can connect to any of the telnet sites from DXbase and you can add new ones. The default shipped with DXbase contains about 100 sites already from which you can pick in the internet user option tab. 4. To use GoWin, you have to be using the Windows version of GoWin. If you have that, then all you need to do is set the user options in DXbase to show the path to your GoWin folder. In DXbase, wherever an input is present for a folder or file name ( path ), you'll see a button to the right of the field with three dots on it. Use this button and the drop down box to select the path. Hope this and other answers give you all you need. Cheers Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "N2TK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dxbase (E-mail)" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 4:38 PM Subject: [DXBase] 2003 - questions > Just upgraded from DXBase 5 to 2003. Imported 33000 Q's and everything looks > fine with that. Have some questions. Can someone help me, please: > - CW keying. Can't seem to get it to work. I am using WIN98SE and a parallel > port. It worked fine with DXBase5. In the "Options" "CW" tab, I have > selected DXB98LPT1 and checked "Activate Internal DXBase keyer" . When I > click on any of the message folders nothing happens. > - DXTelnet. I am a registered user. Can I set it up so it is easy to log > onto from DXBase like I presently do by selecting "New Internet Cluster" > under the "Windows" pull-down? > - Is there a way to click on a called out call on either the packet screen > or internet screen and have the radio go to that frequency? I can use Alt-Q > to manually change the freq on the TS-950SDX. > - I have the RAC CD loaded on my hard drive. How do I set up DXBase so I can > easily go there for an address? > - I subscribe to GOWIN. How do I set it up to check for QSL managers? Under > the "AUX MGR" screen I list it's path, but nothing happens. > > Tnx for the help. I'm a greenie with this program, yet. > > Tony > N2TK > > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
