[WriteLog] Great Circle /Beam Heading Problem Solved

[Mike]

Hello,

Same problem here, but the location values return to zero every time WL is 
restarted.

What should the WL.ini entry(s) be for the great circle location values to 
be retained?

At 16:14 6/5/05, Larry L Lindblom wrote:
>For the past 5 weeks I've struggle with getting the beam heading to
>display correctly.  Just over a month ago all of a sudden G3 was at 8
>degrees and only 40 miles away from my QTH.  Other headings and distances
>were equally strange.  Oddity was that when I used pack spots the azimuth
>values were correct (G3 44 degrees, etc)
>
>I immediately check my location in Great Circle setup and it was OK.
>Next, I dug through the archives of the WriteLog reflector and found
>W5XDs Oct 26, 2002 post about running comreg.exe and also using REGEDIT
>to delete the key named GreatCircle in the registry from My
>Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\W5XD\WriteLog.  However neither of
>those solved the problem and G3 along with the rest of the world was an
>hour or less drive from my home.
>
>Then today for no particular reason I looked at the layout values under
>Great Circle setup.  They were all set at zero.  How they all got set to
>that value is a mystery.  But giving them positive numeric values from
>6-1 suddenly made G3 a much long trip and at the correct heading, ditto
>for everything else I tried. I know from the on screen text that positive
>values display the information and negative values turn the display of
>those items off.  I guess now I've learned that a zero value displays the
>information but it is inaccurate information.
>
>Anyway the problem is resolved and maybe this will help someone else if
>they suddenly find the rest of the world is 100 or less mile from their
>driveway;-)
>
>73 W0ETC, Larry
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         73,
         Mike, K4GMH