[Dx4win] Spotting Question

Mark K3MSB mark.k3msb at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 22:45:54 EDT 2010


Surprisingly,  my 40M cutoff frequency was 7140 instead of 7040 (which is
now corrected).

I have my cutoff set at 40 KHz up from the low end of 80, 40, 20, and 15.

Mark K3MSB

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Mel <ve2dc at videotron.ca> wrote:

> No, the country should have been determined correctly, but the mode may not
> have been.
>
> An ongoing problem is the spotting network does not require a mode (overdue
> given 99% of spots are probably generated by software) and it has to be
> guessed at by frequency. This is what the CW cutoff is used for in DX4Win
> setup. Forty meters is one band where the division between CW/Digital/SSB is
> uncertain. Possibly the spot was not recognized as CW. Was it above your "CW
> cutoff frequency"?
>
>
> On 2010-10-08 21:17, Mark K3MSB wrote:
>
>> I just worked MJ/DL2SBY on 40 CW.   This is a new band country for me.
>>
>> The call showed up in the Packet Window,  but was not highlighted in the
>> DX
>> Spots window.
>>
>> I have no entries in "Prefix/Zones for Spotters".   Other stations are
>> getting highlighted as I expect them.
>>
>> Is there an issue with stations that use their portable prefix before
>> their
>> actual call?   Stations that use the portable prefix after their actual
>> seem
>> to be spotted as expected.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mark K3MSB
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