[Dxbase] DXbase2007 BUG Report -- Joe wa6axe

Tue Apr 17 18:57:07 EDT 2012

Another thing I don't do well late at night beside typing is thinking!  It 
just occurred to me this morning that if you happen to notice a bad beam 
heading/distance calc because of the macro bug in DXB the easy work around 
is to type the country prefix into the little box in the Summary window 
yourself.  When fed the prefix only, without any associated longitude and 
latitude info from the CDROM, DXB will correctly calculate the beam heading 
and distance info.  The trick comes in recognizing the bad data so you can 
get to the correct data.

73,
Gary AL9A

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a at mtaonline.net>
To: "Joe WA6AXE" <wa6axe at hotmail.com>
Cc: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: April 17, 2012 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXbase2007 BUG Report -- Joe wa6axe

> Duh, your're right Joe!  Meant to say when Jack created the macro.  I 
> shouldn't do emails late at night. :)
>
> 73,
> Gary AL9A
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Joe WA6AXE
>  To: al9a at mtaonline.net
>  Sent: April 17, 2012 10:04 AM
>  Subject: RE: [Dxbase] DXbase2007 BUG Report -- Joe wa6axe
>
>
>  Gary,
>
>  This bug has been with DXbase for many years - way before Neal bought 
> DXbase ...
>
>  Joe
>
>
>  > From: al9a at mtaonline.net
>  > To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
>  > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:20:49 -0800
>  > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXbase2007 BUG Report -- Joe wa6axe
>  >
>  > Joe,
>  >
>  > Nice catch. I can't believe I've been using DXB all these years and 
> never
>  > noticed this. I'm betting the most DX stations listed in RAC don't have
>  > associated longitude and latitude coordinates and then DXB calculates 
> the
>  > correct bearing and distance. I'm puzzled though as to why Neal created 
> a
>  > macro opposite from the standard being used by CDROM data bases. Sure 
> hope
>  > Neal gets that one straightened out in V10.
>  >
>  > 73,
>  > Gary AL9A
>  >
>  >
>  > ----- Original Message ----- 
>  > From: "Joe WA6AXE" <wa6axe at hotmail.com>
>  > To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>; <dxbase at yahoogroups.com>
>  > Sent: April 16, 2012 2:58 PM
>  > Subject: [Dxbase] DXbase2007 BUG Report -- Joe wa6axe
>  >
>  >
>  > >
>  > > ALL:
>  > >
>  > > We know that this is not going to happen anytime soon - as we are 
> awaiting
>  > > word from
>  > > Neal (in the future) simply about DXbase 10 ver 0.1 --- but, I wanted 
> to
>  > > get the word out
>  > > to everyone else that might be using a CDROM look-up (such as RAC or 
> QRZ,
>  > > etc etc) -- about
>  > > this BUG that Marco (I0MOM) exchanged emails with me about and we got 
> his
>  > > problem nailed-down-to
>  > > the RAC/CDROM look-ups ...
>  > >
>  > > Here is the problem ...
>  > >
>  > > (1) The "Normal" sign convention (for LONGITUDE) that is used by all 
> of
>  > > the CDROM Callbook makers is that
>  > > the EAST is a PLUS ( + ) Longitude -- and -- WEST is MINUS ( - ) 
> Longitude
>  > > .. But, DXbase has always had a
>  > > SIGNING CONVENTION that is Reversed from this "Normal" -- 
>  > >
>  > > (2) Therefore ... IF any DXbase user has the CDROM Lookups TURNED-ON
>  > > (Activated) -- then pse
>  > > be aware that if the DX Station's coordinates are included in the 
> CDROM
>  > > Record entry -- then your
>  > > Bearing and Distance will NOT BE CORRECT ...
>  > >
>  > > ALL of the INFO you will see on BEARING and DISTANCE is related to 
> Marco
>  > > (I0MOM) QTH:
>  > >
>  > > Here are some screen-shots to show the GOOD entry (without CDROM 
> LookUPS
>  > > turned on):
>  > >
>  > > http://www.navycthistory.com/wa6axe/GOOD.gif
>  > >
>  > > and now the BAD entry (I now turned-ON the CDROM LOOKUPS):
>  > >
>  > > http://www.navycthistory.com/wa6axe/BAD.gif
>  > >
>  > > and -- here is a screen-shot of the RAC (CDROM) entry for AH0D .. see 
> the
>  > > coordinates ....
>  > >
>  > > http://www.navycthistory.com/wa6axe/RAC.gif
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Again - I know that this will not be take care of (BUG) anytime 
> soon -- 
>  > > but, I wanted to give
>  > > ALL a heads-up on this .. just in case you also run into this ---  
> and, one
>  > > other thing -- once
>  > > there is a BAD Bearing/Distance - because of the CDROM -- your 
> SUMMARY
>  > > window's
>  > > entries from then on out will be OFF and will be locked into the 
> erroneous
>  > > data ...
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Just FYI for now ...
>  > >
>  > > 73 Joe wa6axe
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
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