[Dx4win] A peculiar situation
Earlier in the year, I worked a few stations in the ARRL DX Phone contest. Rather than set up a contest logger for a minor effort, but to ID these QSO's, I entered ARRL PH in the Notes for this QSO box. Months later, I was surprised to notice that ARRL PH had replicated itself in a whole bunch of QSO's outside the contest. Figuring I had somehow not ended that practice, selected all the affected QSO's using F8, and manually deleted that phrase from all. Imagine my surprise today to note that every QSO since, when called up, has that tag. I again manually removed them, but would like to know what is causing this so I can end its occurrence. I am using 7.03 at the moment. Garry, NI6T __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] A peculiar situation
Go File menu then Contest mode, and see what is in the Text to add to QSO note box -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Garry Shapiro Sent: Friday, 16 October 2009 8:21 p.m. To: DX4WIN Reflector Subject: [Dx4win] A peculiar situation Earlier in the year, I worked a few stations in the ARRL DX Phone contest. Rather than set up a contest logger for a minor effort, but to ID these QSO's, I entered ARRL PH in the Notes for this QSO box. Months later, I was surprised to notice that ARRL PH had replicated itself in a whole bunch of QSO's outside the contest. Figuring I had somehow not ended that practice, selected all the affected QSO's using F8, and manually deleted that phrase from all. Imagine my surprise today to note that every QSO since, when called up, has that tag. I again manually removed them, but would like to know what is causing this so I can end its occurrence. I am using 7.03 at the moment. Garry, NI6T __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] A peculiar situation
John: Bingo...except that, in 7.03 at least, Contest is under the QSO menu in the QSO entry window. I apparently had chosen Contest mode--not normally used here--and you correctly showed that I had entered ARRL PH in that box. Problem solved, and thank you. Garry, NI6T John Shaw wrote: Go File menu then Contest mode, and see what is in the Text to add to QSO note box -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Garry Shapiro Sent: Friday, 16 October 2009 8:21 p.m. To: DX4WIN Reflector Subject: [Dx4win] A peculiar situation Earlier in the year, I worked a few stations in the ARRL DX Phone contest. Rather than set up a contest logger for a minor effort, but to ID these QSO's, I entered ARRL PH in the Notes for this QSO box. Months later, I was surprised to notice that ARRL PH had replicated itself in a whole bunch of QSO's outside the contest. Figuring I had somehow not ended that practice, selected all the affected QSO's using F8, and manually deleted that phrase from all. Imagine my surprise today to note that every QSO since, when called up, has that tag. I again manually removed them, but would like to know what is causing this so I can end its occurrence. I am using 7.03 at the moment. Garry, NI6T __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] A peculiar situation
Garry your right it is QSO menu, my muck up but you got there. :) 73 John ZL1BYZ. _ __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Connecting FT-2000 to v8.02?
My thanks to everyone that has replied on this issue; it's now working great. 73 de Paul, VE7BZ __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] Headings
Can you confirm beam headings in DX4Win express as true north? Thanks de Ron __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Headings
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Ron Stone n...@comcast.net wrote: Can you confirm beam headings in DX4Win express as true north? As opposed to ??? What do you think is wrong (and give a specific example)? 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Headings
In Rhode Island, true north is 16 degrees east of magnetic north. When orienting a yagi or other directional antenna a correction needs to be made when using a magnetic compass to find North. Jerry, K6JRY - Original Message - From: Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu To: Ron Stone n...@comcast.net Cc: DX4WIN Reflector dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Headings On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Ron Stone n...@comcast.net wrote: Can you confirm beam headings in DX4Win express as true north? As opposed to ??? What do you think is wrong (and give a specific example)? 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Connecting FT-2000 to v8.02?
I thought you might like to know what the fix was that allowed me to successfully connect my FT-2000 to DX4WIN v8.02. In addition to the list members that responded to my query, I also received help from Paul - the DX4WIN author. The fix (for me) boiled down to turning ON the DTR and RTS options in DX4WIN, ensuring the default baud rate was not checked and increasing the baud rate to 9600. In addition, radio menu items 28, 29 and 30 were set to 9600, 100 and ON respectively. Of those, only the baud rate and time-out setting were changed from default. The one thing that does puzzle me is the baud rate issue. The YAESU default is apparently 4800, yet it works great at 9600 and some of you who responded suggested speeds as high as 38400. In other cases some of you only selected DTR and stated RTS was turned off -- so again I'm not sure about these values other than to say in my present configuration everything appears to be working fine. Over the last several years with my FT-1000MP MK V's I never used anything other than the default values with DX4WIN and the program ran flawlessly - in fact I even used the same DB9-to-DB9 cable that was used on the MK V's. Has something changed with the FT-2000 that requires a minor tweak in the settings? I'd like to know the answer to that question. Once again thanks to all who offered their assistance. 73 de Paul, VE7BZ __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Headings
If I had to hazard a guess it would be that the D4W bearings are great-circle bearings relative to the True geographic North Pole. To be anything else wouldn't make sense. Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC d...@k7vc.com __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Headings
In Rhode Island, true north is 16 degrees east of magnetic north. When orienting a yagi or other directional antenna a correction needs to be made when using a magnetic compass to find North. Since most HF Yagi antennas have 3dB beamwidths on the order of 55-70 degrees, a few degrees of pointing error will have essentially zero effect on signal strength. Don't spend too much time worrying about whether you're precisely aligned with true North or not. You'll never be able to tell the difference. 73... Randy, W8FN __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Headings
At 08:11 PM 10/16/2009, I wrote: If I had to hazard a guess it would be that the D4W bearings are great-circle bearings relative to the True geographic North Pole. To be anything else wouldn't make sense. The trick then becomes making sure your antenna is pointing toward the geographic North Pole when it indicates it is pointing North. As someone else mentioned, the beam width of most HF antennas is so broad you can get close enough by eye balling relative to the geography around you. If for some reason you actually require accurate headings within a few degrees (such as multi-element UHF or microwave arrays with beam widths of only a few degrees) then the determination of accurate headings becomes an interesting exercise. I am sure that D4W's headings are mathematically accurate relative to the geographic north pole. Aligning your antennas with anything close to that kind of accuracy is left as an exercise for the reader. :) Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC d...@k7vc.com __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
