[Trlog] "All Sun" in beam heading window

[Jim Smith]

I do have the latest, well the penultimate latest, cty.dat.

Well, I just keyed in RZ0ZWA (2320 local time) and the beam heading 
window shows
"UA9 309 4902 km  2142z/0438z".  I haven't checked the sunrise/sunset 
times but the bearing/distance is right on for RZ0W according to DX Atlas.

And what about the "all sun"?

Another mystery to me is that, while cty.dat shows a single lat/long for 
all UA9 stations, TR, in its infinite wisdom, somehow knows that RZ0W is 
at 309 while RZ0A is at 340 deg.  I can only presume that TR uses an 
internal table of lat/long for each prefix.  Maybe I just don't know how 
to decode the cty.dat file.

73, Jim   VE7FO

Tree wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 10:20:53PM -0800, Jim Smith wrote:
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>>In a recent contest (NOT arrl 10m) I keyed in RZ0ZWA.  The beam heading 
>>window showed the heading to be 195 instead of the expected 309 and, 
>>instead of the usual distance, sunrise/sunset info the words "all sun" 
>>appeared.  This was around evening grey line time.  IIRC the 195 heading 
>>was in sunlight but 309 - 180 = 129, not 195.
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>Sounds like the program doesn't know what to do with this call - and
>ended up in some random grid near the south pole.
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>Tree
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