Gary, You might try adjusting the pacing and EOC values in radios.ini for the selection you are using. Maybe make them just a tad larger. Sounds like your radio is responding slowly and perhaps the data is getting truncated or otherwise garbled somehow. Increasing these may help.
Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Senesac AL9A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Z DX Base" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Frequency > Just about to create a new message about a similar problem, though DX > Atlas > (V2.2 here) is not involved. Having just recently acquired DSL capability > I > have finally been able to utilize DX spotting clusters with DXB. I'm > using > VE7CC's AR User software and the spotting action seems to be what I have > expected. However, I am seeing one action I did not expect. The > frequency > entered into the log from the rig is intermittently wrong. On some QSO's > the correct frequency is entered, on others it is all over the map. I get > long strings of what appears to be random numbers, sometimes with a > leading > negative sign. How do you get a negative frequency? Some times the > frequency numbers are correct, but the decimal point is way off; 14185.50 > comes out as 14185000.00 or some such number. > > I had a long run into EU this afternoon on 17M and the problem was > constant. > After going QRT I had to scroll to the top of the run, copy the correct > frequency into the clipboard and manually edit each bad frequency by > pasting > the correct frequency into the bad log entry. I couldn't use Find & > Replace > as the bad frequencies were all over the map. While a pain, this is > fixable > while doing a run because I know what frequency is correct. When > searching > & pouncing it can be a problem if the bad frequency isn't caught and > corrected right away. If I QSY to a new band or mode, how do I remember > which frequency, band or mode was used to make the contact? I've also > noticed that when attempting to send a spot, the spot frequency will > sometimes be off the mark as well, even if I have verified that the > correct > frequency has been populated into the log. > > Rig here is also an Icom 756Pro. PC is Pentium III laptop running ME. > I'm > sure there is some kind of communication conflict between the computer and > the radio. I've tried adjusting the baud rate down from 19200 to 9600 > with > no effect. Has anyone else ever noticed this behavior when connected to a > DX cluster? Would a higher DSL speed help? - running 128K now. I haven't > tried it yet, but I'm fairly confident that if I disconnect from the > cluster > the frequency problem will go away. Not a viable solution! > Gary AL9A > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Z DX Base" <[email protected]> > Sent: May 27, 2005 3:36 PM > Subject: [Dxbase] Frequency > > >> Ran into a strange problem last night. I had monitor 1 set to DXBase >> 2005 and Monitor 2 to DX Atlas 2.25. After I had logged serval QSOs, I >> happen to look at the frequency that was logged. All QSOs were 363416.56 > and >> the band was 75. I closed DX Atlas and the frequencies were logged OK. > Open >> DX Atlas back up and got the same problem. Anyone have this happen to >> them >> and if so, what's the cure. Using 2.4 MHz and XP pro. Rig is an IC-756 > pro. >> JV >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] >
