[TRLog] Fw: Help new TR user!

v31jp@logical123.net v31jp@logical123.net
Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:26:00 +0100


You can send yourself a message via packet and in the test,
you put in the proper DX Spot text like below.
Then you can read and re-read the message to test your setup.
You can put in several simulated spots.

Udo DL2ZAV wrote:
> 
> > Try to erase bandmap.bin restart.bin and start the program again.
> > I am, from time to time, experiencing spots just stopping to appear on the
> > band map and the cure is to restart the software.
> 
> I can confirm this, happens to me from time to time, don't know why. Sorry
> that this does not help in your case.
> 
> > still have the problem.  I don't know how TRLog recognizes a DX Spot for
> > purposes of putting it on the bandmap.  Maybe the format of the spots from
> > this particular packet cluster is not what TRLog is expecting?  On the
> other
> > hand, the spots appear in the packet log OK.
> >
> 
> To check if it is the format the cluster sends, try this:
> - connect to a friend on packet
> -have him type this:
> <RETURN>
> dx de jim: 14033 cn8ww <RETURN>
> 
> This is rather case insensitive. If TR beeps and reads "JIM says cn8ww is on
> 14033", then there is something wrong whith the dx spots from the cluster
> (control characters somewhere in there?).
> 
> Also, try setting PACKET ADD LF = TRUE - even if this creates additional
> blank lines in the packet window, maybe there's a ctl-J where a ctl-M should
> be, or vice versa.
> 
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> 
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