[Dxbase] [dxbase] Results of the "3" CDROM tests -- Joe wa6axe

Sun Apr 22 14:25:01 EDT 2012

Remove the path name to the CDROM location.
73,
Gary AL9A
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Colello" <colellos at earthlink.net>
To: <dxbase at yahoogroups.com>; <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: April 22, 2012 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] [dxbase] Results of the "3" CDROM tests -- Joe wa6axe
> Is there a way to "turn off" the RAC look-up. I tried turning it off in 
> Options, but it didn't seem to turn off.
>> Steve
> KA2KON
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Joe WA6AXE
> To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net ; dxbase at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 9:59 PM
> Subject: [dxbase] Results of the "3" CDROM tests -- Joe wa6axe
>>>>> ALL:
>> Dennis (K6DS) had a HamCall CDROM and provided me with his results a 
> minute ago --
>> SO - now we have the final results of ALL 3 of the CDROM's that DXbase 
> supports
>> RAC (Flying Horse) Callbook CDROM -- because each of the records on this 
> CD contains
> the COORDINATES for the DX Station -- this RAC CDROM will "NOT" give 
> the correct Beam Heading and
> Distance.
>> QRZ and HamCall Callbook CDROMs -- BOTH of these CDROMS are ALL OK and 
> WILL provide the
> proper Beam Heading and Distance --- this is possible because neither of 
> these CDROM records
> contains any coordinates info for the DX Station..
>> As long as the DXbase User (with a RAC CDROM Lookups) remembers that 
> their Beam Headings
> and Distance "WILL NOT be correct" -- the Other info from the RAC CDROM 
> will populate all ok ...
>> Just providing the results of this look-see as FYI to all users!
>> Joe wa6axe
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