[Dx4win] Sunrise/Set Window Question

[Nelson Moyer]

I rechecked the coordinate entries and found that the longitude setting was
East instead of West. The change took care of the problem. I missed that
detail the first time I checked. Thanks.

Nelson

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Reisert AD1C [mailto:jjreisert at alum.mit.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 4:10 PM
To: Nelson Moyer; dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Sunrise/Set Window Question

At 03:46 PM 7/15/2006, Nelson Moyer wrote:

>The first time I tried to use the Sunrise/sunset window, I noticed that the
>headings are reversed for DXCC entities, e.g. HS comes up with a short path
>heading of 163º and a long path heading of 343º, just exactly backwards! My
>local coordinates are entered correctly,  grid square EN41fp. How do I go
>about fixing this anomaly?

Hi Nelson,

This is the first I've heard of this 
problem.  There are three bearings in the sunrise/sunset window:

         Heading - this is the "short path" heading
         Long path - this is the "long path" heading
         Reciprocal - this is the heading from HS to your QTH

Are you sure you are reading the screen 
correctly?  Does it affect other entities or just HS?

Check the first screen of your preferences - are 
you latitude (including North) and Longitude 
(including West) entered correctly?

Try moving DX4WIN.CTY file to a safe place, and 
download the one from http://dx4win.ad1c.us/ and see if the same thing
happens.

73 - Jim AD1C


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