[Dxbase] Frequency

Sat May 28 15:18:52 EDT 2005

Once again, Jack to the rescue - and on a long holiday weekend to boot! As
I surmised, the frequency read problem goes away when not connected to a DX
cluster and reappears when connected. I checked the help file about the
pacing and eoc values and decided to change just the pacing value to see the
effect. The help file says a pacing of 50 is about right for Icoms, but my
radios.ini file had a value of just 5 for the IC-756Pro. I increased it to
10 and still had errors. Then adjusted it up to 50 and the frequency
readout was consistently correct with the cluster connected, but the
feedback from the radio to the log seemed slow. Adjusted the pacing value
back down to 25 and this seems to be hitting a sweet spot. No more
frequency readout errors and the radio response time is acceptable. Oh
yeah, I adjusted the baud rate for DXB and the IC756Pro back up to 19200.
Everything seems to work, even couple of trial spot sends! Thanks for the
great support Jack!
73,
Gary AL9A
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack" <jack at dxbase.com>
To: "Gary Senesac AL9A" <al9a at pobox.mtaonline.net>; "Z DX Base"
<dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: May 28, 2005 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Frequency
> Gary,
>> You might try adjusting the pacing and EOC values in radios.ini for the
> selection you are using. Maybe make them just a tad larger. Sounds like
> your radio is responding slowly and perhaps the data is getting truncated
or
> otherwise garbled somehow. Increasing these may help.
>> Jack
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Senesac AL9A" <al9a at pobox.mtaonline.net>
> To: "Z DX Base" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 12:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Frequency
>>> > Just about to create a new message about a similar problem, though DX
> > Atlas
> > (V2.2 here) is not involved. Having just recently acquired DSL
capability
> > I
> > have finally been able to utilize DX spotting clusters with DXB. I'm
> > using
> > VE7CC's AR User software and the spotting action seems to be what I have
> > expected. However, I am seeing one action I did not expect. The
> > frequency
> > entered into the log from the rig is intermittently wrong. On some
QSO's
> > the correct frequency is entered, on others it is all over the map. I
get
> > long strings of what appears to be random numbers, sometimes with a
> > leading
> > negative sign. How do you get a negative frequency? Some times the
> > frequency numbers are correct, but the decimal point is way off;
14185.50
> > comes out as 14185000.00 or some such number.
> >
> > I had a long run into EU this afternoon on 17M and the problem was
> > constant.
> > After going QRT I had to scroll to the top of the run, copy the correct
> > frequency into the clipboard and manually edit each bad frequency by
> > pasting
> > the correct frequency into the bad log entry. I couldn't use Find &
> > Replace
> > as the bad frequencies were all over the map. While a pain, this is
> > fixable
> > while doing a run because I know what frequency is correct. When
> > searching
> > & pouncing it can be a problem if the bad frequency isn't caught and
> > corrected right away. If I QSY to a new band or mode, how do I remember
> > which frequency, band or mode was used to make the contact? I've also
> > noticed that when attempting to send a spot, the spot frequency will
> > sometimes be off the mark as well, even if I have verified that the
> > correct
> > frequency has been populated into the log.
> >
> > Rig here is also an Icom 756Pro. PC is Pentium III laptop running ME.
> > I'm
> > sure there is some kind of communication conflict between the computer
and
> > the radio. I've tried adjusting the baud rate down from 19200 to 9600
> > with
> > no effect. Has anyone else ever noticed this behavior when connected to
a
> > DX cluster? Would a higher DSL speed help? - running 128K now. I
haven't
> > tried it yet, but I'm fairly confident that if I disconnect from the
> > cluster
> > the frequency problem will go away. Not a viable solution!
> > Gary AL9A
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "JV" <kt4u at adelphia.net>
> > To: "Z DX Base" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: May 27, 2005 3:36 PM
> > Subject: [Dxbase] Frequency
> >
> >
> >> Ran into a strange problem last night. I had monitor 1 set to
DXBase
> >> 2005 and Monitor 2 to DX Atlas 2.25. After I had logged serval QSOs, I
> >> happen to look at the frequency that was logged. All QSOs were
363416.56
> > and
> >> the band was 75. I closed DX Atlas and the frequencies were logged OK.
> > Open
> >> DX Atlas back up and got the same problem. Anyone have this happen to
> >> them
> >> and if so, what's the cure. Using 2.4 MHz and XP pro. Rig is an IC-756
> > pro.
> >> JV
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