[Dx4win] Announce DX Question

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

At 10:53 AM 2/25/2006, Ed Roberts wrote:

>Receiving the spots in Dx4win works just fine. When I see the spot I 
>have just announced, using 'Announce Dx' from Dx4win it always shows 
>up in the remark column appended/following the remark without a 
>space----with the spotter column left blank. I have tried other 
>packet nodes in the past, with the same result!

I can't explain the call in the REMARKS column.

However...

DX4WIN captures the spot you send out and the one it gets back from 
the cluster, but only keeps the LATEST spot.  If your PC clock is 
fast, or your cluster clock is slow, then it will keep the spot you 
sent out, not the spot that people see on the cluster.  That 
particular spot will not have the SPOTTER callsign embedded in it, 
it's of the format:

       DX AD1C 14000.3 <comment>

i.e. it has not been reformatted by the cluster.

Does this make sense?

That's why it's important to keep your PC clock accurate, and the 
sysop of the node you connect to to keep his PC clock accurate.

73 - Jim AD1C


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