[Dx4win] Updated dx4win.awd dx4win.tcp
Hi all, I just looked over the DX4Win awards file that Hamad has been working on, and it looks like he's done a very good job. But, I noted that the two big lighthouse awards were missing. The Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS), and the World Lighthouses On The Air (WLOTA). The ARLHS list is big, 10,000+, and unless you're chasing lights you probably don't want it. But, if you do, you can find it, the WLOTA, the Canadian Islands Award (CIsA), and the Islands of Scotland Award (IOSA) on my web page, along with instructions on how to update the DX4Win.awd file. I try to keep these files up-to-date, and you can check for the date that I last updated them. I'm due to update both the USIA and CIsA files by the end of August. My web page is at: http://home.neo.rr.com/tsarah/www/w8tts.html 73 - Ted - W8TTS Hamad 9K2HN wrote: Hi, I have worked hard to update dx4win.awd which contain all the custom award data, I updated JCC JCG award and the Russian Island Award, also done some updates to the dx4win.tcp. If you are interested go to http://www.9k2hn.com and you will find it next to the DX4WIN link in the bottom of the page. what you have to do is backup your current files (dx4win.tcp dx4win.awd) then unzip the file in your save directory and when it asks you to over wright say yes and restart you DX4WIN and every thing will be fine. let me know if you face any problems. de 9k2hn Hamad ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- Outgoing mail not scanned because I'd lie about it if I was a virus sending this anyway. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 9 07:45:05 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Reisert AD1C) Date: Tue Aug 9 07:45:45 2005 Subject: [Dx4win] Updated dx4win.awd dx4win.tcp In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Hamad and Ted. I added links to your pages from my DX4WIN page: http://www.ad1c.us/dx4win/ 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us
[Dx4win] Groups
Sorry, I meant the Group Definitions. The Group numbers are in the individual QSO records. It's the Group Definitions that are missing. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: At 06:26 PM 1/25/2005, Ted Sarah - W8TTS wrote: Can someone tell me where the Group numbers are stored. Somehow they have disappeared. Went back to 6.0.3 and they were also gone from there. They may still be in 6.0.2, but won't be able to check until tomorrow. I must not have copied something correctly from 6.02 to 6.03. Stored in your log (.DXL) file. 73 - Jim AD1C From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 26 08:35:17 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Reisert AD1C) Date: Wed Jan 26 08:41:53 2005 Subject: [Dx4win] Editing the country file gives you no special privileges Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today while working on the country file, AX0MT on Macquarie came and went on 40 meter SSB. That would have been a new band country for me, but I didn't know. There was no red bar across my DX spots window because AX0MT wasn't in the country file yet! Special prefix for Australia Day. I hope some of you worked this rare one. Just because I'm working on this stuff doesn't necessarily give me any advantage :-( 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.us
[Dx4win] Groups
Can someone tell me where the Group numbers are stored. Somehow they have disappeared. Went back to 6.0.3 and they were also gone from there. They may still be in 6.0.2, but won't be able to check until tomorrow. I must not have copied something correctly from 6.02 to 6.03. 73 - Ted - W8TTS
[Dx4win] DX4Win and FT1000MP
Hi Wanda, Mine is setup like this... Type: Yaesu FT1000MP Address: 00 Baudrate: 4800 Both default boxes are checked COM Port: COM1 Poll rate: 500 ms MAX: 5 DTR High is checked RTS High is NOT checked Hope this helps. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Wanda_Jak wrote: Hello, I am just configuring my DX4Win software to connect to the radio and TNC modem. Could someone tell me which parameters should be used in a case of FT1000MP? I know the baud rate should be 4800, and the COM field is also correct. However, the radio does not work. What about the 'address field at 'File/preferences/radio'? Hopre for your help. yl Wanda SP7IWA ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win This message has been processed by Firetrust Benign. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 24 06:35:22 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx) Date: Wed Nov 24 06:41:45 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] Re: DX4WIN and Linux In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not sure why you feel it is off-topic here, Philippe, but I'd love to hear if you have any success. If I could get WRITElog and DX4WIN running on LINUX I would retire these WIN machines in 72 hours. 73, Byron At 04:01 AM 11/24/2004, Philippe wrote: I tried last year with Fedora Core 1 and Wine. Dx4Win 6.03 is apparently checking I/O at start and then issue an error and quit. I remember having tried older versions without this behavior but was not successful even if it loads OK (don't remember excaly why but probably beacause of fonts display, but not sure :-) I completely switched to Linux last year and I still keep a Windows machine only for Dx4Win. I will try again probably with Fedora Core 3 and again Wine and maybe also QEmu but I don't know when (FYI : I 'm trying only with Open Source emulators, no Win4Lin, VMWare, ...) If and when I will have positive results I will surely post on the list. I'm still dreaming about a Dx4Win Linux version ;-) As this is mostly off topic here, I will not post anymore about Linux, only via private mail.
[Dx4win] DX4Win and FT1000MP
That's one of the reasons that my new computer was built with multiple com ports and usb ports. 73 - Ted - W8TTS John, KC9JS wrote: I have my Yaesu FT-1000MP MKV and DX4win set up the same way; however, I'm using a USB to RS232 adapter. Everything works fine but slow. When I did use the one (1) com port I do have on my computer instead of the adapter response was much, much faster. 73, John, KC9JS Twin Lakes, Wisconsin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Sarah - W8TTS Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 5:33 AM To: Wanda_Jak Cc: Dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX4Win and FT1000MP Hi Wanda, Mine is setup like this... Type: Yaesu FT1000MP Address: 00 Baudrate: 4800 Both default boxes are checked COM Port: COM1 Poll rate: 500 ms MAX: 5 DTR High is checked RTS High is NOT checked Hope this helps. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Wanda_Jak wrote: Hello, I am just configuring my DX4Win software to connect to the radio and TNC modem. Could someone tell me which parameters should be used in a case of FT1000MP? I know the baud rate should be 4800, and the COM field is also correct. However, the radio does not work. What about the 'address field at 'File/preferences/radio'? Hopre for your help. yl Wanda SP7IWA ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win This message has been processed by Firetrust Benign. ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win This message has been processed by Firetrust Benign. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 24 10:06:36 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bud Governale) Date: Wed Nov 24 10:13:03 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] QSL Manager Addresses Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I lost all QSL manager addresses after updating to release 9 of DX4WIN country files. I followed the procedure for exporting/importing QSL manager data and all QSL managers were successfully preserved but are blank for addresses. How can I get them back so that I can print out labels for stored up unsent QSL's and preserve known good addresses? I suspect a missing step in the Country File update procedure is to also export/save/import QSL manager addresses. 73, Bud W3LL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Dx4win] Setting the Uplaod flag
Back before DX4Win had the ability to track and do the LoTW upload, I
did my whole log manually. Now, I'm trying to go through and set the
Upload flag to Y so that I can then set the Upload Date. But, when I
follow the instructions posted by AD1C
(http://www.ad1c.com/dx4win/#LoTW) I get 3,291 QSO's changed. Now, if I
go back and do a select on those with the Upload Flag still set to N I
get 8,908. No matter what I do, short of changing them all manually, I
can not get the flag on those QSO's set to Y.
Anyone have any ideas how I can set these flags to Y?
73 - Ted - W8TTS
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 8 18:23:44 2004
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: Mon Nov 8 18:27:33 2004
Subject: [Dx4win] LoTW - what is the upload date? and when does it get
filled-in?
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Larry,
Sounds like you missed one step (and this would have been without a filter,
as it involved your entire log the first time, but it also works with and is
necessary even with a filter set):
Labels -- Set upload flags
That will set the upload date. The reason that's important to you is that
later you can filter on that field to find any entries that have not yet
been uploaded by doing an F9 search and entering 01/01/1901 in that field.
You can still go back and do that now. You just don't have to upload the
file to LoTW (obviously).
73,
Steve
In a message dated 11/8/2004 2:56:29 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK - so I have figured out: the LoTW ADIF extract from DX4win, the ARRL
certificates, signing the ADIF file, uploading the file, downloading the
matching QSO confirmation results, and importing the results into DX4WIN as
upload confirmed QSOs.
I uploaded 15,761 QSOs to LoTW. I got 1,962 upload confirmed QSOs in
response. All seems good, except the upload date is still blank. Is the
upload date supposed to be filled in when I created the DX4WIN extract ADIF
file, or does it get filled in when I import the upload confirmed QSOs?
In other words - it DX4WIN's upload date tracking when I _sent_ the QSOs
to ARRL's big database, or when I _receive_ a confirmation that one of mine
got a match? And... what action on my part actually enters the date? {please
don't suggest that I have to hand-enter 1,961 dates... ;-}
-larry
K8UT
[Dx4win] AVES
If you look at a map of the continents for the HAM world. Aves is in NA. It's located south of Montserrat and west of Dominica. There was a time when it's ownership was disputed between the United States, and Venezuela. 73 - Ted - W8TTS On 8/1/2004 10:13:34 AM, John Kjos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I was wondering if the Iota listing and Continent listing for AVES in the Country Database are correct? It lists the continent as North America and the Iota as NA020. Thanks- John EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MY WEBSITE: http://www.w9rpm.com BLUFF COUNTRY DX CLUB: http://www.qsl.net/w9idx/ Free Ham Radio Classified Ads: http://swap.QTH.com ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 3 09:58:58 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john paul) Date: Tue Aug 3 10:20:10 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] Dade County Fl Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using the new upgrade to 6.03 and was entering counties into my log and DADE county Fl is not listed. Anyone else run up on this problem in their program? JohnPaul/AB4PP Raleigh, NC From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 3 10:34:10 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Mellinger WA0SXV) Date: Tue Aug 3 10:36:17 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] Dade County Fl In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Miami-Dade. 73, Mike WA0SXV -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john paul Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 07:59 To: dx4win; Jim Reisert AD1C Subject: [Dx4win] Dade County Fl I am using the new upgrade to 6.03 and was entering counties into my log and DADE county Fl is not listed. Anyone else run up on this problem in their program? JohnPaul/AB4PP Raleigh, NC
[Dx4win] LoTW problems
I think I may have a handle on this. It appears that it has something to do with the way that QSL Method is set. Everything below was done with no filters set. To start with, I have QSL Methods set as follows: 216 to QSL Service 1,419 to Buro 1,032 to Direct 405 to 208 to Other 8,933 to Ignore Which adds up to the 12,213 QLOs in my log. When I do the Label|Set Upload Flags, I get 3,268 QSLs changed Now, if I do a QSO|Multiple QSOs Operations|Set QSL Method, and set everything to Buro, I get Changed 8,299 QSOs, and a break down as follows: 128 to QSL Service 9,718 to Buro 912 to Direct 318 to 165 to Other 909 to Ignore or, a total of 12,150 QSOs with a QSL Method. Where the other 63 are, I have no idea. Now, this time when I do the Label|Set Upload Flags, I get 11,290 QSLs changed. That's 923 less QSOs than my log contains. Why those didn't get changed, I have no idea. But, it appears that setting the Upload Flag has something to do with QSL Method. I hope that this will give Paul an idea when he gets back from Dayton. 73 - Ted - W8TTS
[Dx4win] LoTW problems
Upload and download isn't the problem. It's properly setting the flag to do the upload. See my posting about what I found with QSL Method. It's really strange. 73 - Ted - W8TTS WC7N wrote: Don that is what I did under 6.02. When 6.03 hit the market I merged all of those entries into 6.03 without any problems. Also I have now unloaded logs and downloaded confirmed QSO's from LoTW with out any problems. Just is working great for me. Rod WC7N - Original Message - From: Donald Eriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Sarah - W8TTS [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Rick Murphy K1MU [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LoTW problems Yes, Ted, the steps outlined by Paul worked here for the Samplelog. This brings up a question I have: Do you folks that have done this to their log set up a special log just for LoTW downloads? I'm real nervous about downloading into my present clean log. Of course we all know it's foolproof and it won't foul up right? Oh yeah. Sure sounds to me, after reading all these threads, that we need to wait till after Dayton and maybe get some real instructions in the User's Guide and Help file. Meanwhile, I may experiment, but not on my original log!! Don W6FFH - Original Message - From: Ted Sarah - W8TTS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rick Murphy K1MU [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LoTW problems Hi Rick, There was a thread going about this. And, a number of us were having a problem doing it. We weren't getting the same results Paul was getting. And, with Paul and Steve at Dayton, the thread has kind of stopped until he returns. But here is what he said to do... Paul van der Eijk wrote: 1. Open samplelog.dxl 2. File | Info; 5538 QSOs 3. QSO | Filter Select upload = Y; no QSOs found 4. Labels | Set upload flags; I get 5538 QSOs 5. Labels | Export for LOTW (no filter or selection active) 6. Takes no time it seems :) 7. File new log (I'm not saving the modified log) 8. File import (ADIF) I read 5538 QSOs Now, when a couple of us did this with the sample log, we got the same results he did. But, when we did it against our own logs we didn't get what we expected. For example, I have 12,000+ QSOs in my log, and only got 3,280 QSOs changed, not the 12,213 that I expected. I even tried doing a filter before hand, and got the same results. Guess we have to wait for Paul and Steve to come back from Dayton. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Rick Murphy K1MU wrote: OK, I'm kinda confused about what to do when importing from LoTW. I've uploaded my log from 6.02, so what I need to do now is two things: 1. Mark the QSOs in my current log as uploaded. 2. Download from LoTW so the confirmations there are marked properly. The help file is less than helpful. There's no LoTW in the index, and the Export for LOTW topic starts with Export all QSOs marked for upload to an ADIF file. The ADIF file i.e. it ends in the middle of a sentence. For download, do I generate an ADIF report from LoTW for just QSLs, or for all QSOs? Do I import this using an ADIF import, into my current log? How do I mark what I've already uploaded so they don't get uploaded again? -Rick ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 15 19:01:55 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Reisert AD1C) Date: Sat May 15 19:04:23 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] Port driver In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 02:53 PM 5/15/2004, Larry Moore wrote: After downloading and installing 603 I get a error message Port driver not found! Check appendix: Files for the correct drivers. I looked in the drivers folder in Dx4win and both drivers are listed. Does anyone know what the procedure is to get the program to load these drivers ? I'm using Win/98 on this computer. Did you have administrator privs. when you installed DX4WIN? -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC
[Dx4win] Country IOTA Problem?
It appears that the Country and IOTA Windows aren't being filled in for incoming packet spots. The IOTA Window appears to work fine when going through the log using the PageUp and PageDown keys, but the Country Window isn't. Did I miss something in the upgrade? -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS
[Dx4win] Country IOTA Problem? OOPS!
My goof. I had COUNTY instead of COUNTRY. I think the IOTA one may be working too. SRI. Ted - W8TTS It appears that the Country and IOTA Windows aren't being filled in for incoming packet spots. The IOTA Window appears to work fine when going through the log using the PageUp and PageDown keys, but the Country Window isn't. Did I miss something in the upgrade? -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] Award Definitions
I have a few select ones that I built. See my web page: http://home.neo.rr.com/tsarah//www/w8tts.html 73 - Ted - W8TTS Joe Young wrote: I am looking for a source of pre-defined award filesother than those that come with DX4WIN. (an expanded version of DX4WIN.AWD). Thank you and 73 de Joe, W6RLL ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] LOTW Test
One thing that I noted with some of Joe's errors, is that the call contained the letter O instead of the number 0. That's why IMO they ere kicked out. They are close to each other on the keyboard and look alike in some fonts, so it's an easy mistake. Ted W8TTS WC7N wrote: Joe I submitted mine last night with very few problems. I did resort my log so it showed only date,time,call, and band. Also first time around it hiccupped on PSK until I changed those to PSK-31. In fact , just checked, and it showed a confirmed QSO with you on RTTY. Rod WC7N - Original Message - From: Joe - WL7M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 8:54 AM Subject: [Dx4win] LOTW Test I just submitted my log to the ARRL LOTW, and ended up with these errors. About half of my log went through OK before hitting the maximum number of allowed errors. Looks like there needs to be a few automatic corrections in DX4WIN which happen should you elect to submit your log to the LOTW. I'm sure there will be an option forthcoming - perhaps after the beta testing is over - that will make that happen. 73, Joe WL7M 2003-05-16 23:42:59 LOTW_QSO: Processing file: wl7m-ADIF.tq8 2003-05-16 23:42:59 LOTW_QSO: Certificate found for WL7M - ALASKA (6) 2003-05-16 23:43:32 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 306: Invalid Call Sign in tCONTACT record 2003-05-16 23:43:32 LOTW_QSO: QSO: WL7M RSOF 1999-12-12 01:15:00Z 10m SSB 2003-05-16 23:43:32 LOTW_QSO: Record 306 ignored due to errors 2003-05-16 23:45:26 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 1818: MODE: Invalid value in field (PSK) 2003-05-16 23:45:26 LOTW_QSO: Record 1818 ignored due to errors 2003-05-16 23:45:26 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 1819: MODE: Invalid value in field (PSK) 2003-05-16 23:45:26 LOTW_QSO: Record 1819 ignored due to errors 2003-05-16 23:47:09 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 2783: MODE: Invalid value in field (PSK) 2003-05-16 23:47:09 LOTW_QSO: Record 2783 ignored due to errors 2003-05-16 23:47:39 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 3060: Invalid Call Sign in tCONTACT record 2003-05-16 23:47:39 LOTW_QSO: QSO: WL7M WOETC 2001-09-30 21:31:00Z 15m RTTY 2003-05-16 23:47:39 LOTW_QSO: Record 3060 ignored due to errors 2003-05-16 23:49:02 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 3835: MODE: Invalid value in field (PSK) 2003-05-16 23:49:02 LOTW_QSO: Record 3835 ignored due to errors 2003-05-16 23:49:53 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 4307: MODE: Invalid value in field (PSK) 2003-05-16 23:49:53 LOTW_QSO: Record 4307 ignored due to errors 2003-05-16 23:49:56 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 4335: Invalid Call Sign in tCONTACT record 2003-05-16 23:49:56 LOTW_QSO: QSO: WL7M WOFY 2001-12-01 18:48:00Z 6m SSB 2003-05-16 23:49:56 LOTW_QSO: Record 4335 ignored due to errors 2003-05-16 23:50:06 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 4429: Invalid Call Sign in tCONTACT record 2003-05-16 23:50:06 LOTW_QSO: QSO: WL7M KMOT 2001-12-02 21:55:00Z 6m SSB 2003-05-16 23:50:06 LOTW_QSO: Record 4429 ignored due to errors 2003-05-16 23:50:07 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 4436: Invalid Call Sign in tCONTACT record 2003-05-16 23:50:07 LOTW_QSO: QSO: WL7M NOEXX 2001-12-02 22:00:00Z 6m SSB 2003-05-16 23:50:07 LOTW_QSO: Record 4436 ignored due to errors 2003-05-16 23:50:07 LOTW_QSO: Processing aborted: Maximum error count reached ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] LOTW Test
One thing that the guy at LOTW told me was, they really want input from anyone that beta tests. So, what ever kind of problems that you run across, send them a detailed email to the address on the LOTW home page: http://p1k.arrl.org/lotw/default To get signed up, go to: www.arrl.org/lotw So far I haven't found it very user friendly. Yes, it's only beta. But, I have a couple of friends that use computers for logging, and are as computer literate as a brick. I would hate to have to try and explain how to use LOTW to them. Hopefully, by the time they are ready to release a full version, they will have it so there is only one step to get a certificate and one to upload a log. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Joe - WL7M wrote: Was going to say something silly like DX4WIN (or any other logging program) wouldn't allow a callsign with out a numeric elementthen I found out it will. I never checked to find out. There, I believe, is where I went wrong - Ted - you're undoubtedly right. 73, Joe WL7M At 10:25 AM 5/17/2003, you wrote: One thing that I noted with some of Joe's errors, is that the call contained the letter O instead of the number 0. That's why IMO they ere kicked out. They are close to each other on the keyboard and look alike in some fonts, so it's an easy mistake. Ted W8TTS ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) #115 Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA) Lighthouse Islands awards files for DX4WIN others: http://w8tts.com/www/w8tts.html Worked All Great Lakes Lighthouse/Lightships (WAGLLL) Award http://w8tts.com/www/WAGLLL_Award_Rules.html Just South of the North Coast Keep the Flame!
[Dx4win] Controlling computer time
Try AboutTime. Don't know if it will work with XP, but well worth a try. http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/index.html 73 - Ted - W8TTS Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: At 09:17 AM 3/15/2003 -0800, Dick Flanagan W6OLD wrote: As far as I can tell, the automatic XP time synchronization is fixed at once each week with no means of reducing the time interval. Too bad D4 won't work. It seems like a much more flexible application. There is some obscure registry setting you can modify to change this, but I've never tried it. I'm happy with Tardis. It tells you the clock drift (mine is -1.8 seconds/day) which is something that the Microsoft applet won't do. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) #115 Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA) Lighthouse Islands awards files for DX4WIN others: http://w8tts.com/www/w8tts.html Worked All Great Lakes Lighthouse/Lightships (WAGLLL) Award http://w8tts.com/www/WAGLLL_Award_Rules.html Just South of the North Coast Keep the Flame!
[Dx4win] Controlling computer time
Nope. You can, like most programs, set up About Time to start at boot up time. Just add it to your startup folder. Duane A Calvin wrote: Well, About Time is still an excellent freebie, though you have to manually use it, I think: http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/index.html And while you're there, check out why is the sky dark at night for a very interesting physics lesson - it's at: http://www.arachnoid.com/sky/index.html 73, Duane
SV: [Dx4win] DX Spots Window
You will note that the DX4WIN.PUT file comes and goes. It is only there when there are spots in the DX spot window. If you exit DX4Win without clearing the spots the .PUT file remains with spots. If you clear the spots and don't exit DX4Win the .PUT file remains. If you clear the spots and then exit DX4Win the file is renamed to DX4WIN.~UP, thereby effectively deleting it. You can delete the ~UT file and the .PUT file will be recreated the next time a spot is placed in the DX spot window. At least that's the way it works here. BTW, I use the DX-Telnet interface. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Jan Eliasson, SM7NDX wrote: Hello! I have the same problem with lost spots from internet. Just found that I don?t have any dxwin.put file. Simply copied the file from 6.01 to my 6.02 catalog and it works. 73 de SM7N - SM7NDX, Jan -- Jan och Margareta Eliasson [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swipnet.se/sm7ndx ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] DX Spots Window
I just went in and unchecked the Backup DX spots box. And, it went back to clearing, i.e. deleting the .PUT file, with spots still in it when I exited DX4Win and restarted. Ted - W8TTS Roger Borowski wrote: Mel and others, Jim-AD1C informed me that checking the Backup DX spots box doesn't have anything to do with this problem and the spots should be saved, regardless of this box being checked, when you exit DX4WIN. That wasn't happening for me, and apparently for some others. It started working after I checked the box, but I don't know if unchecking the box now would cause them to stop being saved as I have reverted back to using V5.02 due to other yet unresolved issues in V6.02. that make it more difficult to use with Kenwood radios as well as those who have CW keying and PSK31 PTT on different COM ports. 73, -=Rog-K9RB=- - Original Message - From: Mel Martin (VE2DC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Roger Borowski' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win@mailman.qth.net; 'Erik Hyllander' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:55 AM Subject: RE: [Dx4win] DX Spots Window I DON'T have backup spots checked... And they are still there next time I start DX4Win... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Borowski Sent: February 20, 2003 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win@mailman.qth.net; Erik Hyllander Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX Spots Window In Preferences | Packet1 | make sure you have the options box labeled Backup DX spots checked. That will save the spots up to the number in the Preferences | Packet2 | scrollback capacity for DX spots box. 73, -=Rog-K9RB=- Sure wish the separate COM port selection for PSK31 PTT and CW keying are restored as well as fixing the Kenwood VFO B non=activation for split frequency spots..The upgrade took me two features backwards.Both worked great before V.6.xx..Wayne.Help please! - Original Message - From: Erik Hyllander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:40 AM Subject: [Dx4win] DX Spots Window Hello, last Feb. 15 I posted the following message: Another observation is that all spots from internet are lost after exit from DX4WIN. When I use my normal set-up to the local DC-cluster via 144 MHz spots remain. Now the two cases are identical i.e. spots are lost when opening DX4WIN again, v 6.02. I have the impression that it was ok in the beginning, there are spots saved from from Feb. 9 and 10. This has nothing to do with checking 'Leave all windows in original position' in Preferences/Screen.I think it is of value to save earlier spots in this window to check where a station has been operating etc. Paul, please put it back in the next version, it works ok in v 5.03. Now, I got the idea to reinstall 6.02 and found that it didn't help. In DX4WIN.put there are a bunch of spots from start and they remain but all spots added, coming from internet or local 144 MHz link, are gone after restarting DX4WIN. I got one answer from AD1C/Jim who has not this problem. Are there no others but me having the problem? Using W98SE. Erik Erik Hyllander, SM0LZT e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] alt.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) #115 Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA) Lighthouse Islands awards files for DX4WIN others: http://w8tts.com/www/w8tts.html Worked All Great Lakes Lighthouse/Lightships (WAGLLL) Award http://w8tts.com/www/WAGLLL_Award_Rules.html Just South of the North Coast Keep the Flame!
[Dx4win] DX Spots Window
It appears that every time a spot is received the backup runs. Or, at least that what it looks like it's doing. Mel Martin wrote: I must confess I am unclear on what checking the box backup spots is supposed to do... as they seem to be backed up unconditionally when I close DX4Win... perhaps Jim or Paul can clarify this... It almost seems that DX4Win is not saving your spot file on closing DX4Win. Ted... Did you check and see if when the backup box is checked that spots arriving between the last backup interval and closing DX4Win are saved? - Original Message - From: Ted Sarah - W8TTS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Roger Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win@mailman.qth.net; 'Erik Hyllander' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 08:16 Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX Spots Window I just went in and unchecked the Backup DX spots box. And, it went back to clearing, i.e. deleting the .PUT file, with spots still in it when I exited DX4Win and restarted. Ted - W8TTS Roger Borowski wrote: Mel and others, Jim-AD1C informed me that checking the Backup DX spots box doesn't have anything to do with this problem and the spots should be saved, regardless of this box being checked, when you exit DX4WIN. That wasn't happening for me, and apparently for some others. It started working after I checked the box, but I don't know if unchecking the box now would cause them to stop being saved as I have reverted back to using V5.02 due to other yet unresolved issues in V6.02. that make it more difficult to use with Kenwood radios as well as those who have CW keying and PSK31 PTT on different COM ports. 73, -=Rog-K9RB=- - Original Message - From: Mel Martin (VE2DC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Roger Borowski' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win@mailman.qth.net; 'Erik Hyllander' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:55 AM Subject: RE: [Dx4win] DX Spots Window I DON'T have backup spots checked... And they are still there next time I start DX4Win... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Borowski Sent: February 20, 2003 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win@mailman.qth.net; Erik Hyllander Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX Spots Window In Preferences | Packet1 | make sure you have the options box labeled Backup DX spots checked. That will save the spots up to the number in the Preferences | Packet2 | scrollback capacity for DX spots box. 73, -=Rog-K9RB=- Sure wish the separate COM port selection for PSK31 PTT and CW keying are restored as well as fixing the Kenwood VFO B non=activation for split frequency spots..The upgrade took me two features backwards.Both worked great before V.6.xx..Wayne.Help please! - Original Message - From: Erik Hyllander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:40 AM Subject: [Dx4win] DX Spots Window Hello, last Feb. 15 I posted the following message: Another observation is that all spots from internet are lost after exit from DX4WIN. When I use my normal set-up to the local DC-cluster via 144 MHz spots remain. Now the two cases are identical i.e. spots are lost when opening DX4WIN again, v 6.02. I have the impression that it was ok in the beginning, there are spots saved from from Feb. 9 and 10. This has nothing to do with checking 'Leave all windows in original position' in Preferences/Screen.I think it is of value to save earlier spots in this window to check where a station has been operating etc. Paul, please put it back in the next version, it works ok in v 5.03. Now, I got the idea to reinstall 6.02 and found that it didn't help. In DX4WIN.put there are a bunch of spots from start and they remain but all spots added, coming from internet or local 144 MHz link, are gone after restarting DX4WIN. I got one answer from AD1C/Jim who has not this problem. Are there no others but me having the problem? Using W98SE. Erik Erik Hyllander, SM0LZT e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] alt.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse
[Dx4win] Terminal Program for DX Clusters
Good Morning Bruce, I've been a very happy user of DX-Telnet for a long time. It's a very flexible program with lots of goodies, that aren't hard to get up and running, including a startup routine that starts DX-Telnet, a handshake program, and then DX4Win. It's very stable, the last update was almost a year ago. Take a look at: http://www.qsl.net/wd4ngb/telnet.htm It's not shareware, but there is a one time registration fee. And, the author is VERY helpful. The usual disclaimer, I have no financial interest in either DX4Win or DX-Telnet. Just a happy user. 73 - Ted - W8TTS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning: Which terminal program would you recommend for use with DX4WIN. Telnet is out of the Question but DX packet spots are OK in my Area. Any Ideas would be appreciated. Shareware would be better! 73 Bruce N9BX --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html --- ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) #115 Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA) Lighthouse Islands awards files for DX4WIN others: http://w8tts.com/www/w8tts.html Worked All Great Lakes Lighthouse/Lightships (WAGLLL) Award http://w8tts.com/www/WAGLLL_Award_Rules.html Just South of the North Coast Keep the Flame!
[Dx4win] v6.02 - New Countries (up to 335)?
Hi Gary, From the ARRL DXCC web site: There are 335 current entities on the DXCC list, with 326 current required for the DXCC Honor Roll. There are 58 deleted entities. 4WDemocratic Republic of East Timor OC ITU=54 CQ=28 FK/C Chesterfield Is. OC ITU=56 CQ=30 73 - Ted - W8TTS Gary McConville wrote: The country count on my v6.02 shows 335, up from 333 on v5.03. Are 4W1 (East Timor - UNTAET) and FK/C (Chesterfield Islands) legit??? Gary - WB4SQ --- Jim Reisert AD1C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not yet. Yugoslavia has changed names (loose affiliation of Serbia and Montenegro), but no changes to the DXCC list yet. At 05:40 AM 2/6/2003 -0800, Gary McConville wrote: Did I miss something about the two new countries on DXCC? -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) #115 Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA) Lighthouse Islands awards files for DX4WIN others: http://w8tts.com/www/w8tts.html Worked All Great Lakes Lighthouse/Lightships (WAGLLL) Award http://w8tts.com/www/WAGLLL_Award_Rules.html Just South of the North Coast Keep the Flame!
[Dx4win] Packet Window
If I remember correctly, in the 5.x version if I made the send part (bottom) of the Packet Window smaller it stayed that way when I exited and restarted DX4Win. But, in the 6.x version, I have to resize it every time. Anyone else seeing this? 73 - Ted - W8TTS
[Dx4win] Packet Window
Interesting. I've been working on the awards file, so have been ending and starting the program over and over. And, every time with 6.02 the spots have been cleared. Have I missed setting an option some place? 73 - Ted - W8TTS Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Not here. Works the same as 5.03. At 08:43 AM 2/9/2003 -0500, you wrote: Something else that I noted, is that now if you exit the program and restart, the DX spots window is cleared. 5.x didn't do this. I would prefer to see the spots remain in that window unless cleared. There are times when you close and restart the programs, i.e. a hard computer lock, oops I clicked on the [x], etc., and want to see the spots that were there remain when I restart. 73 - Ted - W8TTS -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC
[Dx4win] Packet Window
Interesting. I didn't have that checked in the 5.x version, but I just tried it in the 6.x version, and now the spots stay in the DX Spots window. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Jaime P.Ullívarri wrote: Hi Ted, Just mark : PREFERENCES=PACKET1=BACKUP DX SPOTS. And the spots will remain. 73, Jaime EA6NB. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Sarah - W8TTS Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 13:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: DX4Win Reflector Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Packet Window Something else that I noted, is that now if you exit the program and restart, the DX spots window is cleared. 5.x didn't do this. I would prefer to see the spots remain in that window unless cleared. There are times when you close and restart the programs, i.e. a hard computer lock, oops I clicked on the [x], etc., and want to see the spots that were there remain when I restart. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Dave Hawes wrote: Yes, that is the way it used to work. In fact, the size of the send window is also lost if you click on Maximize and then Restore. I liked it the old way, and wonder if there is some new functionality that is tied to this behavior. If not, perhaps it can be either restored to the previous behavior, which I prefer over the current way. 73 - Dave N3RD On 9 Feb 2003 at 7:07, Ted Sarah - W8TTS wrote: If I remember correctly, in the 5.x version if I made the send part (bottom) of the Packet Window smaller it stayed that way when I exited and restarted DX4Win. But, in the 6.x version, I have to resize it every time. Anyone else seeing this? 73 - Ted - W8TTS ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] Version 6
In looking at Window|Log and then right clicking on the report, the pick list has Write to File grayed out. Is this because I'm still running in DEMO mode? -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS
[Dx4win] How to update files?
Drop a note to Guy (ON4AOI), his email address is on his web site http://users.skynet.be/ON4AOI/dx4win.shtml 73 - Ted - W8TTS David L Sharred wrote: ANd how do you get the password? I logged onto theis site, and got stopped on this point, when trying to get new IOTA files. Dave G3NKC (a registered user) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Henderson Sent: 04 January 2003 14:53 To: Ted Sarah - W8TTS Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] How to update files? Tnx Ted Bill - Original Message - From: Ted Sarah - W8TTS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bill Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 2:25 PM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] How to update files? Hi Bill, I have a few awards files on my web page http://www.w8tts.com There is also some directions on how to update the awards files. For the complete updates on various files go to Guy's (ON4AOI) web page at: http://users.skynet.be/ON4AOI/dx4win.shtml He has a very complete selection of update files. Some require passwords, which are available to registered DX4Win users. 73 - Ted - W8TTS ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) #115 Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA) Lighthouse Islands awards files for DX4WIN others: http://w8tts.com/www/w8tts.html Worked All Great Lakes Lighthouse/Lightships (WAGLLL) Award http://w8tts.com/www/WAGLLL_Award_Rules.html Just South of the North Coast Keep the Flame!
[Dx4win] Using the QRZ database from the HD
As an aside to this. I think that the RAC instal looks to see if a previous version was installed and then asks if you want it to replace the old one in the same directory. If I remember correctly that's the way the install of this last version went. My RAC is in directory C:\RAC with four sub directories under that: DATA, HELP, LABELS32, and TEXTE. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Roger Borowski wrote: Steve and all, I have QRZ installed here and working fine. Do as follows; Using the standard installation, the QRZ CD installs to C:\Program Files\QRZ Ham Radio. Then, if you don't wish to use the CD-Rom for access to data files, you need to create a directory on your C:\ drive called callbk and then copy everything from the CD-Rom sub directory callbk to the new directory on your hard drive called callbk. You can highlight all from the CD directory callbk and drag and drop it onto the hard drive directory callbk or use DOS commands copy *.* for copying, and then set Preferences in DX4WIN Ext Data to a Data Source of QRZ CDRom and the Data Directory to C:\ It should then work fine and data will be almost instantaneous also. 73 and Happy Holidays, -=Rog-K9RB=- - Original Message - From: Steve Bookout [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 12:33 PM Subject: [Dx4win] Using the QRZ database from the HD Hello all, Hope everyone had a good holiday. Paul and I spent part of ours working on version 6, FYI. A user of DX4WIN, N8XG, is trying to get the program to work with his QRZ database, which has been installed on his hard disk. He told me that he had the CD ROM do the installation (from a menu choice) to the HD, so I assume that it has been installed in the 'standard' location, as intended by QRZ If it is in the 'standard' location, can someone please tell me (us) what the path would be. I have never used or seen QRZ, so I am really in the dark. I figured it would be easier to ask those who have it working, than trying it without actually seeing what I'm suggesting. Any suggestions? His address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] 73 de Steve, NR4M - -Steve Bookout, NR4M (ex NJ4F) Rapidan Data Systems 'DX4WIN...The way logging programs should be!' Free demo at http://www.dx4win.com ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) #115 Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA) Lighthouse Islands awards files for DX4WIN others: http://w8tts.com/www/w8tts.html Worked All Great Lakes Lighthouse/Lightships (WAGLLL) Award http://w8tts.com/www/WAGLLL_Award_Rules.html Just South of the North Coast Keep the Flame!
[Dx4win] Staying Connected to TELNET
I use DX-Telnet through a cable modem (Road Runner) and don't have any problem staying connected. I did earlier, do to the way it was connected to my laptop, but that's another issue. I have the clusters that I use, set up to be pinged every 10 minutes as a keep alive. And, it works like a charm. To stop the unwanted attempted connections from various unknown urls, I use a D-Link Cable/DSL Internet Gateway between the cable modem and the PC. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Larry Alkoff wrote: On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 21:05:25 -0800, STU wrote: Is there anyone out there that has a hard time staying connected to TELNET. I have a high speed cable connection that works great for the Internet. No problems! When connecting to a DX cluster via TELNET (with DX4WIN) and the activity is somewhat slow, I seem to get disconnected. During peak times such as contests I stay connected just fine. I understand there is a so called keep alive option either in DX4WIN or some other outside source. The idea is to keep the traffic moving. If windows isn't seeing any traffic from you, (some ISP's as well.) disconnect you so others can use the IP you were on. Is there a setting in DX4WIN using the TCP/IP setting with this so called keep alive feature? Please advise. TNX, 73 STU Please respond to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have noticed that normally I lose my connection in about an hour. My experiments indicate that the reason is that somehow Telnet attracts a swarm of attempted connections from various unknown urls that overload the ability of Telnet to keep itself alive. Various methods of sending keep alive signals have made no difference. I maintain two machines - one is Linux. If I establish a Telnet connection under DX4Win and set the Linux machine to monitor connections using tcpdump which is included in most Linux distributions, I can clearly see the attempted connections building up - to as many as hundreds per second! This is a classic DOS (Denial of Service) attack. Most people would be unaware of the attack unless they are running an analysis tool like tcpdump. I've tried nearly a dozen different Telnet sites - the result has always been the same. That is why I'm looking for a good http site that does automatic refreshes. My connection is a 24 hour cablemodem (Time-Warner of Austin TX RoadRunner) and I think that kind of connection is attractive to the kind of people doing this. They can easily tell it's Time-Warner from the first few digits of the IP address. Many have complained about the difficulty of keeping their Telnet connection up. Hope this information helps others. Larry Alkoff N2LA Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] Staying Connected to TELNET
Hi Larry, I think the main reason that I don't loose my cluster connections is because I use the ping (Stay Alive) option of DX-Telnet. Even on slow spot days, it pings once ever 10 minutes and keeps the connection active. I can stay connected for a VERY long time this way. 73 - Ted
[Dx4win] Staying Connected to TELNET
Hi Jim, It all depends on the filtering that you have setup on your nodes, and what kind of activity there is, and what good old Sol is up to. When the solar indexes are bad, I've seen an hour go by without a spot, I only look at North America and HF. I use W8GN, K8SMC, and others. So, yes there can be little traffic at times. 73 - Ted - W8TTS Jim Reisert wrote: Are you guys on nodes with very little traffic? I can connect to W1GQ, KE9KD and K8SMC (also N2TX before it moved) for days at a time, and I'm not actively pinging the connection. In fact, I have two computers connected to two different nodes while I'm at work all day (one wired, one wireless). The only time I lose a connection is if the remote node goes down, or something happens to my router or cable modem. Using ATT Broadband Internet. I don't filter out much besides the stuff above 2 meters. I like to see spots from all over the world. 73 - Jim AD1C = Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] Clock error
Also, take a look at AboutTime, it allows to to check more than one source of time off the web. Look at: http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/index.html 73 - Ted - W8TTS Larry Gauthier wrote: Pete, Are you saying that the clock was once accurate, but is now inaccurate? I have never had that happen. I have owned my fair share of computers with off-tolerance crystals that kept lousy time, but they kept the same lousy time all their lives. Have you changed your processor lately, or altered the BIOS setting of the PC to super-clock the CPU? That will cause wildly-inaccurate clock timing. My PC's clock is reasonably accurate, but to avoid any log-time problems I run the free utility from NIST for PC clock management. This program auto-magically synchronizes your PC clock to WWV at regular intervals (the interval set by you) You can download it from www.time.gov. -larry K8UT - Original Message - From: Pete Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:03 AM Subject: [Dx4win] Clock error Help -- the computer I use for TRLog and DX4WIN(a 200 MMX Pentium) has started losing about 12 seconds an hour in its real-time clock -- for example, I set it this morning from the Internet, and when I can back 3 hours later it was 38 seconds slow. Is this indicative of battery problems? The computer has been on throughout. I also wonder if perhaps some software that is running on the system -- maybe in background -- could be responsible. Any advice much appreciated. 73, Pete N4ZR ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) #115 Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA) Lighthouse Islands awards files for DX4WIN others: http://w8tts.com/www/w8tts.html Worked All Great Lakes Lighthouse/Lightships (WAGLLL) Award http://w8tts.com/www/WAGLLL_Award_Rules.html Just South of the North Coast Keep the Flame!
[Dx4win] Awards files
For the new users and as a reminder for the older users. If you chase lighthouses and/or islands, you can find the most current DX4Win awards files for the following: Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) Canadian Islands Awards (CISA) Islands of Scotland Awards (IOSA) U.S. Islands Awards (USIA) World Lighthouse Award (WLHA) at: http://w8tts.com/www/w8tts.html There is also instructions on how to update the DX4Win.awd file. And, I attempt to keep this as up-to-date as I can. -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) #115 Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA) Lighthouse Islands awards files for DX4WIN others: http://w8tts.com/www/w8tts.html Worked All Great Lakes Lighthouse/Lightships (WAGLLL) Award http://w8tts.com/www/WAGLLL_Award_Rules.html Just South of the North Coast Keep the Flame!
[Dx4win] Telnet via Cable Modem Timeout
Hi, I went through the same problem. Took the Linksys Router out of the picture and it cleared up. Ted - W8TTS
[Dx4win] Web Update
Is this, [EMAIL PROTECTED], the email address that you used? Ted - W8TTS Brian Wruble wrote: Some of the files require a password to open, which ON4AOI will give you on request. However, I sent him an email about a week ago asking for the current password and have as yet received no response. Please let me know if you have better luck. 73, Brian W3BW Scanned with NAV2002
[Dx4win] Web Update
Don't know then, other than he may be away. He should see these posts on the DX4Win reflector and hopefully reply directly to you. Ted Brian Wruble wrote: Yup. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Sarah - W8TTS Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Guillermo Vazquez C.; dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Web Update Is this, [EMAIL PROTECTED], the email address that you used? Ted - W8TTS Brian Wruble wrote: Some of the files require a password to open, which ON4AOI will give you on request. However, I sent him an email about a week ago asking for the current password and have as yet received no response. Please let me know if you have better luck. 73, Brian W3BW Scanned with NAV2002 ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win -- 73 - Ted - W8TTS Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS) #115 Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association (GLLKA) Lighthouse Islands awards files for DX4WIN others: http://home.neo.rr.com/tsarah/www/w8tts.html Worked All Great Lakes Lighthouse/Lightships (WAGLLL) Award http://home.neo.rr.com/tsarah/www/WAGLLL_Award_Rules.html Just South of the North Coast Keep the Flame! Scanned with NAV2002
[Dx4win] Data base maximums
Hi all, Was just wondering if there is a maximum number of entries that can be in the various DX4WIN data bases before you start running into problems? Data bases such as: LOG file, QSL Managers, and Manager Addresses. 73 - Ted - W8TTS
