[Dx4win] Beam heading problem

Mel ve2dc at videotron.ca
Sun May 16 17:02:50 EDT 2010


Terrible idea! The grid at gives useful information... the prefix is 
virtually useless in NA. BTW, it uses Prefix / State / Grid depending on 
what's available.

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> Simplest way is to disable it on your cluster node.  Sometimes more
> (wrong) information is better than no information.
> 
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Dusty Chapman <k3wc at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> I just figured out why I get false beam headings occasionally.  There
>> doesn't seem to be anything in my manual about this.  If you look at the
>> beam heading for a station that is spotted on 6 meters and there are grid
>> squares in the "Remarks" of the spot AND the last grid square is that of the
>> spotter rather than the station spotted, the beam heading is then to the
>> direction of the spotter.  Is there a way to not have the grid square be the
>> determining factor for giving a beam heading?  I would guess the program
>> uses prefixes for spots that don't show grid squares.
>> Thanks,
>> Dusty - K3WC
> 


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