Fwd: Re: [Dxbase] DXBase Heading Question

Sun Mar 6 21:52:21 EST 2005

Jack -- that is indeed the issue...I discovered that the RAC Callbook has
errors in the latitude for American Samoan residents...They show the latitude
as 14 degrees North latitude and it should be South latitude. DXBase picks
this up from the CD which is on my harddrive. They also have errors with Guam
as they show the longitude as 144 W and it should be 144 East longitude... 
When I deactivate the RAC callbook, DXBase shows the correct headings as it
then uses the internal data base...
Please put on my wish list for DXBase to use its internal database all of the
time...no need to access data from Callbook CD's that I can see...unless you do
it for U.S. stations... 73 de Greg
>Date: 2005年3月06日 14:56:09 -0500
>From: Jack <jack at dxbase.com>
>Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXBase Heading Question
>To: Greg - N4CC <n4cc at direcway.com>, dxbase at mailman.qth.net
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>Original-recipient: rfc822;n4cc at direcway.com
>>Greg,
>>Maybe you are using a third-party CD address database and the lat/lon are 
>being picked up from there. We look for lat/lon info from CD if one is 
>used. If not, we use lat/lon from pri pfx database table.
>>Regards,
>Jack
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Greg - N4CC" <n4cc at direcway.com>
>To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 2:50 PM
>Subject: [Dxbase] DXBase Heading Question
>>>> When I put KH8SI in my log and look at the heading the summary window says
>> 281.7 degrees and lat is +14.27 degrees -- which is wrong? Where is the
>> program getting that information? I cannot find anything in the countries
>> data base, call sign map or alias mapping that would provide that 
>> latitude.
>> The correct latitude for KH8 is -14.3. If I put KH8AA in the log, the
>> summary window shows 257.0 degrees and lat is -14.3 -- as you would 
>> expect.
>> If I put AH8A in, I again get the 281.7 degree heading and +14.27 degree
>> latitude... Any ideas?
>> 73 de Greg-N4CC
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