[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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