[WriteLog] Great Circle /Beam Heading Problem Solved

[DJ3IW Goetz]

Hi,
ensure that the beam headings window is large enough. Initially I had
all kinds of nonsense in a too small window that turned into the right
stuff once the window was sufficiently enlarged.

73 de Goetz
dj3iw at t-online.de
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike" <k4gmh at arrl.net>
To: "Larry L Lindblom" <llindblom at juno.com>; <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Great Circle /Beam Heading Problem Solved


> 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