[DXBase] Location
Tony Cash [KD4K]
[email protected]
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:59:31 -0400
You should get the correct distance IF you are using a Callbook
that supplies Lat. and Lon. to dxbase, of the station you are logging.
Otherwise you will get the distance to the center of the US.
73 de Tony, KD4K
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----- Original Message -----
From: "FireBrick" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "Jeff Davis"
<[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: [DXBase] Location
> I get the correct bearing (and the distance looks close) to any stateside
> call found in Buckmaster whether I have States or HF-Country selected in
> fact to almost any of the drop downs EXCEPT Grids.
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>; "Jeff Davis" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 8:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [DXBase] Location
>>> > I believe you will get the correct distance and bearing to US states, if
> you select "HF-States" in
> > the top right-hand window of the Summary window.
> >
> > Tom, N0YD "Yankee Doodle"
> >
> >
> > --- Dave Shrader <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I'm usinbg a previous version, but I think the answer is the same. All
> > > USA stations have one common Longitude and one common Latitude in the
> > > central USA.
> > >
> > > Dave, W1MCE
> > >
> > > Jeff Davis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am using DXbase 2003 and just noticed a problem with the distance
> > > > info. My QTH is in Indiana and I worked a station in California.
When
> > > > I entered his callsign his distance showed up on the he Summary
screen
> > > > as 740 miles.
> > > >
> > > > I have double checked my Lat/Lon setting and that appears to be
right
> > > > (+40.12 +85.26).
> > > >
> > > > Unless California has moved closer, something seems wrong.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas what I may have improperly configured?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > --
> > > > Jeff, KE9V
> > > >
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