[Dx4win] Create VUCC Map from DX4WIN Award Listing
Hi Folks, I started to work on this utility again (as I've been fairly active on 6 meters lately, picking up new grids since moving to CO): Create VUCC Map from DX4WIN Award Listing http://dx4win.ad1c.us/vucc.htm I believe John W9RPM may have asked about this in the not-too-distant past. John has worked all 488 continental US grid squares and I think is one QSL away from completing the Fred Fish Memorial Award (http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Fred%20Fish.pdf). I made some changes today so the utility works with DX4WIN8 (DX4WIN7 still works). The utility also now treats submitted/approved credits as confirmed. I'm also going to improve the title bar so you know what fields are being displayed. Including the full name in each grid square of the output prevents it from fitting on a single page. Unfortunately, it's still a command-line program, that I'll release sometime this weekend. I'll create a Windows interface in the next release (after this one, no timetable). With the Windows interface, there will be a button so you can see the output immediately in your web browser of choice (then print it). Here are some ideas I've come up with, though I don't know how to implement some of them: 1. Overlay the grid data on top of a real map (don't know how to do this) 2. Print the field names in the background of each field (don't know how yet) 3. Rotate the page as landscape, so instead of 3x4 it's 4x3 (this means text has to rotate also, which may not be supported in HTML) 4. Color-code the field backgrounds (maybe add a legend). Is there any value in this? 5. Larger output, i.e. print more fields on a 11x17 printer (everyone has one of these, right)? Does anyone else have other ideas that I don't have time to work on? :-) 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] Keying MMTTY
I'm trying to get DX4WIN to key MMTTY on my IC-7000. When clicking on a DX4WIN macro RTTY button, I can hear the tones playing but the Icom IC-7000 is not being keyed. I have the path to the MMTTY executable set in the DX4WIN RTTY preference window. I can open the MMTTY program and send RTTY FSK directly from MMTTY. This indicates that the two transistor FSK keying cable (PTT and FSK) is functioning properly thru its com port. If DX4WIN is open at the same time then the MMTTY program cannot open its com port. I have to close DX4WIN to use MMTTY as a stand alone program. I can send CW properly in DX4WIN thru the FSK keying cable com port. I don't understand why DX4WIN cannot key MMTTY. What am I doing wrong? 73, Bud W3LL w...@arrl.net __ 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] Keying MMTTY
Bud, have you read the MMTTY application note: http://dx4win.ad1c.us/ If you have MMTTY working stand-alone, you're half-way there. Make sure the COM port you are using for PTT/FSK isn't being used by anything else (check your preferences). 73 - Jim AD1C On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Bud Governale, W3LL w...@arrl.net wrote: I'm trying to get DX4WIN to key MMTTY on my IC-7000. When clicking on a DX4WIN macro RTTY button, I can hear the tones playing but the Icom IC-7000 is not being keyed. I have the path to the MMTTY executable set in the DX4WIN RTTY preference window. I can open the MMTTY program and send RTTY FSK directly from MMTTY. This indicates that the two transistor FSK keying cable (PTT and FSK) is functioning properly thru its com port. If DX4WIN is open at the same time then the MMTTY program cannot open its com port. I have to close DX4WIN to use MMTTY as a stand alone program. I can send CW properly in DX4WIN thru the FSK keying cable com port. I don't understand why DX4WIN cannot key MMTTY. What am I doing wrong? 73, Bud W3LL w...@arrl.net -- 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
