+ AA6YQ comments below
I have set myQTH and saved it to my workspace.? After shutting everything down and restarting with the correct workspace DX Keeper shows myQTH correctly.? The problem is DXView shows a different Latitude and Longitude for my QTH therefore making the headings 20 degrees different than they should be.? The displayed Latitude is off by ~ 9 degrees and the display Longitude off by ~2.5 degrees.? Even taking into consideration true North the headings are still incorrect.? E.g. the BA5 region of China is 0 degrees true North of my QTH yet DX View shows it at 340 degrees which is close to the heading for JA.
I have probably missed something,? How can this be fixed?
+ Ultimately, I had to review DXView's source code to remember how this works: unlike most DXLab application settings, the Latitude and Longitude in the QTH panel on the Configuration window's General tab are only saved to the Windows Registry when you click that panel's Save button, which is at the panel's extreme right.
+ Why? It's occasionally helpful to set DXView's QTH to a location other than your own, either to see what signal paths look like from a DX station's perspective, or to help a friend who lives in another part of your country with a propagation forecast. You can type in a different latitude and longitude, or you can click on the desired location on DXView's World Map and then click the QTH panel's Position button. When you're done with this exercise, you can restore your saved QTH by clicking the QTH panel's Recall button.
+This is described in the Reference documentation
+ but I've added a "Specifying Your QTH's Location" section to
+ to reduce the probability that someone else will fall into this hole.
+ Many thanks to Art VE3CT for patiently working through this with me.
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