[Dx4win] Announce DX Question...another issue

[Joe Giacobello]

I have observed that if one sends a spot and the spotted station's 
frequency is below the first KHz of the band bottom, the spot is not 
displayed on the cluster.  If I skew the station's frequency so it reads 
out at 1.0 KHZ or higher above band bottom, the spot is displayed.  At 
least I have observed this quirk on 40M CW using both an Orion and 
FTKMP.  I haven't checked it on other bands or the top edge of the 
band.  I wonder if anyone else has noticed this?

73, Joe
K2XX

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:

> 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
>
>