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Re: SP Prob & LP Prob

 

+ AA6YQ comments below

Just before this was posted yesterday, I managed to work 5H1KB, Tanzania on 10 meters FT8. As per my usual routine for suspected weak signals I looked at ±Ê°ù´Ç±è³Õ¾±±ð·É¡¯²õ prediction graph. Not only was 10 meters predicted to be good, the chart had the maximum usable frequency above 6-meters. I have never heard or worked a 6-meter African station from here on the West Coast. But it was nice to see the prediction and maybe I¡¯ll work a few 6-meter African QS0s this sun Spot Cycle..

+ I have found this Maximum Usable Frequency map to be useful:



73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Re: DXKeeper Command line import support

 

+ AA6YQ comments below
Yes, I'm aware of the DXK support (and some other "gateways" like JTAlert). However, I've programmed my own "Monitor/Reporter" on top of WSJT-X? giving more
"personal" touch on the decodes from WSJT-X...
?
+ You can send a directive to a running instance of DXKeeper to import an ADIF file, using DDE or TCP. Let me know if you want the details.

? ? ? 73,
?
? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
?
Re: Filter question

 

+ AA6YQ comments below
Well, it wasn't SPSNR that was blank, it was SP and LP.
?
Here's one example --
?
W4EBB --
?
SPSNR? ? ?LPSNR? ? ?REQSNR? ? ?SP? ? ?LP? ? ?ActualSNR, ActualSNRMAX and ACTUALSNRMin are all -9999
-9999? ? ? ? ?-9999? ? ? ?-9999? ? ? ? ? ? 0? ? ? ?0
?
+ If SP is 0 and SPSNR is -9999, then SP>SPSNR isn't it?

? ? ? ?73,

? ? ? ? ? ? Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Filter question

 

Well, it wasn't SPSNR that was blank, it was SP and LP.

Here's one example --

W4EBB --

SPSNR? ? ?LPSNR? ? ?REQSNR? ? ?SP? ? ?LP? ? ?ActualSNR, ActualSNRMAX and ACTUALSNRMin are all -9999
-9999? ? ? ? ?-9999? ? ? ?-9999? ? ? ? ? ? 0? ? ? ?0

Sorry for the delay,
Earl / KD5XB


Sent with secure email.

On Thursday, April 24th, 2025 at 5:46 PM, Dave AA6YQ <aa6yq@...> wrote:

+ AA6YQ comments below
I wrote the following filter in Spot Collector:
?
(SPSNR>ReqSNR
or
LPSNR>ReqSNR)
and
<Needfilter>
and
<LotWfilter>
and
<Modefilter>
and
<Bandfilter>
and
<Agefilter>
?
I "expected" to get spots with SP or LP of over 50, and higher, and I do, but I also get some spots where SP and LP are both blank (NOT on six meters).? Did I misunderstand something?
+ If SpotCollector can't determine an accurate location for a Spot Database Entry's callsign, it cannot direct PropView to forecast a short path and long path SNR.

+ In the Spot Database Entries in which SPSNR and LPSNR were blank, what was contained in the ReqSNR field?

? ? ? ?73,

? ? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Filter question

 

+ AA6YQ comments below
I wrote the following filter in Spot Collector:
?
(SPSNR>ReqSNR
or
LPSNR>ReqSNR)
and
<Needfilter>
and
<LotWfilter>
and
<Modefilter>
and
<Bandfilter>
and
<Agefilter>
?
I "expected" to get spots with SP or LP of over 50, and higher, and I do, but I also get some spots where SP and LP are both blank (NOT on six meters).? Did I misunderstand something?
+ If SpotCollector can't determine an accurate location for a Spot Database Entry's callsign, it cannot direct PropView to forecast a short path and long path SNR.

+ In the Spot Database Entries in which SPSNR and LPSNR were blank, what was contained in the ReqSNR field?

? ? ? ?73,

? ? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Virus software blocking dx pots dot com

 

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Thanks Dave, that¡¯s what I bought, the premium version¡­ the trial version worked fine, but apparently it doesn¡¯t do more than scan?


On Apr 24, 2025, at 7:27 PM, Dave AA6YQ <aa6yq@...> wrote:

?
+ AA6YQ comments below
Malwarebytes¡­.maybe it will go thru on my phone
+ In



+ the entry for Malwarebytes says

", when configured for continuous monitoring, has been reported to cause significant slowdowns, however, one-time scans are not problematic; see the?Additional Notes?below."

+ The Additional Notes contain this report from Bill G4WJS (now SK):

"The Malwarebytes premium version protects Internet service ports by monitoring traffic, if it sees traffic going to a local server that it does not know about it grabs that port and sits on it so no other applications can run a service on that port. It can be very confusing as the first packet of information will be delivered then the service trying to use the port then gets blocked by the Malwarebytes service that hijacks the port. This can be hard to trace using normal system tools as the hijacked port is held by a Windows service process that cannot be easily attributed to Malwarebytes.

To diagnose this, use the 'netstat -abn' command from an Administrator command prompt and check the output for the port the non-working service application is expected to be listening on. If the listening process is shown as svchost.exe then a Windows service is using the port. The final step is to move the non-working service to another free port and if that too then appears to be in use by a svchost.exe process then Malwarebytes is probably the culprit."

+ I only recommend the use Malwarebytes for one-time scans.

? ? ? ? ? 73,

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Display more memories

 

+ AA6YQ comments below
Dave's Commander manual says (and maybe this can help you):

To help keep track of each memory's purpose,? you can record notes that pop up whenever the mouse cursor hovers over the memory's Sel button. To record such notes,? depress the Ctrl key while clicking the Sel button; Commander will display a Memory Notes Editor window that allows you to capture notes:

  • notes may not contain the angle bracket characters < or > .

  • clicking the Notes Editor's Insert Timestamp button appends a the current UTC date and time to the notes

You can direct Commander to display each memory's notes in place of its frequency, mode, and filter -- simply click the command button captioned ~ in the upper right corner of the memory bank panel. To return to a display of memory frequency, mode, and filter, click the ~ button again.

+ Spot on, Tony. All of those capabilities are described here:



? ? ? 73,

? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Virus software blocking dx pots dot com

 

+ AA6YQ comments below
Malwarebytes¡­.maybe it will go thru on my phone
+ In



+ the entry for Malwarebytes says

", when configured for continuous monitoring, has been reported to cause significant slowdowns, however, one-time scans are not problematic; see the?Additional Notes?below."

+ The Additional Notes contain this report from Bill G4WJS (now SK):

"The Malwarebytes premium version protects Internet service ports by monitoring traffic, if it sees traffic going to a local server that it does not know about it grabs that port and sits on it so no other applications can run a service on that port. It can be very confusing as the first packet of information will be delivered then the service trying to use the port then gets blocked by the Malwarebytes service that hijacks the port. This can be hard to trace using normal system tools as the hijacked port is held by a Windows service process that cannot be easily attributed to Malwarebytes.

To diagnose this, use the 'netstat -abn' command from an Administrator command prompt and check the output for the port the non-working service application is expected to be listening on. If the listening process is shown as svchost.exe then a Windows service is using the port. The final step is to move the non-working service to another free port and if that too then appears to be in use by a svchost.exe process then Malwarebytes is probably the culprit."

+ I only recommend the use Malwarebytes for one-time scans.

? ? ? ? ? 73,

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dave, AA6YQ
Re: discrepancy between LOTW and DXKeeper QSO totals

 

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Thanks Dave.?

Right click. I knew there was an easier way.......

Mike

On 4/24/2025 4:43 PM, Dave AA6YQ wrote:

+ AA6YQ comments below
I was trying to recover a LOTW confirmation on a single contact.
+ Right-click the QSO in the Log Page Display, and select "Update from LoTW" from the pop-up menu.
I did the CTRL sync QSO's and LOTW is reporting over 100k qso's. DXK log says 76k.
Is the 100k that LOTW? states include other calls I have used such as DXpeditions?? I am unsure where I would have made 30k qsos that got uploaded to LOTW without using DXK.

I believe I can create a blank new log and then import from LOTW and find out?
+ Direct LoTW to download those 100K QSO to an ADIF file. Then you can import them into a new DXKeeper log to analyze them
BTW inspecting 100k qsos takes a very long time.
+ CTRL-Sync-LoTW-QSOs doesn't just inspect each QSO, it searches your entire log looking for each QSO reported by LoTW and then updates the QSO it locates.

? ? ? ?73,

? ? ? ? ? ? Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Virus software blocking dx pots dot com

 

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Malwarebytes¡­.maybe it will go thru on my phone


On Apr 24, 2025, at 5:34 PM, Dave AA6YQ <aa6yq@...> wrote:

?
+ AA6YQ comments below
Software that Dave recently recommended ( I cannot type it, because if I do, my email sender rejects it)
+ Please post the name of the software here - phonetically.

? ? ?73,

? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
Re: discrepancy between LOTW and DXKeeper QSO totals

 

+ AA6YQ comments below
I was trying to recover a LOTW confirmation on a single contact.
+ Right-click the QSO in the Log Page Display, and select "Update from LoTW" from the pop-up menu.
I did the CTRL sync QSO's and LOTW is reporting over 100k qso's. DXK log says 76k.
Is the 100k that LOTW? states include other calls I have used such as DXpeditions?? I am unsure where I would have made 30k qsos that got uploaded to LOTW without using DXK.

I believe I can create a blank new log and then import from LOTW and find out?
+ Direct LoTW to download those 100K QSO to an ADIF file. Then you can import them into a new DXKeeper log to analyze them
BTW inspecting 100k qsos takes a very long time.
+ CTRL-Sync-LoTW-QSOs doesn't just inspect each QSO, it searches your entire log looking for each QSO reported by LoTW and then updates the QSO it locates.

? ? ? ?73,

? ? ? ? ? ? Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Virus software blocking dx pots dot com

 

+ AA6YQ comments below
Software that Dave recently recommended ( I cannot type it, because if I do, my email sender rejects it)
+ Please post the name of the software here - phonetically.

? ? ?73,

? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Virus software blocking dx pots dot com

 

Anyone that does not ger an https address ought to be blocked. It is for our own good.

Outlook LT Gil W0MN
Hierro Candente Batir de Repente
44.08226 N 92.51265 W EN34rb

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W4TV via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2025 3:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DXLab] Virus software blocking dx pots dot com


Obviously, that software is (has become) unreliable and should be removed from any/all systems.

73,

... Joe, W4TV

On 2025-04-24 4:20 PM, Jamie WW3S wrote:
Software that Dave recently recommended ( I cannot type it, because if
I do, my email sender rejects it) is blocking dxpots.com due to a Trojan.
I hav tried excluding it, I have added dxspots.com as an exclusion, I
have added the ip address, I have added Spotcollector, and it
continues to say the website is blocked, I am not familiar enough with
the new piece of software to know what the next step is, any ideas?








--
W0MN EN34rb 44.08226 N 92.51265 W

Hierro candente, batir de repente

HP Laptop
Re: Virus software blocking dx pots dot com

 

Obviously, that software is (has become) unreliable and should be
removed from any/all systems.

73,

... Joe, W4TV

On 2025-04-24 4:20 PM, Jamie WW3S wrote:
Software that Dave recently recommended ( I cannot type it, because if I do, my email sender rejects it) is blocking dxpots.com due to a Trojan. I hav tried excluding it, I have added dxspots.com as an exclusion, I have added the ip address, I have added Spotcollector, and it continues to say the website is blocked, I am not familiar enough with the new piece of software to know what the next step is, any ideas?
Filter question

 

I wrote the following filter in Spot Collector:

(SPSNR>ReqSNR
or
LPSNR>ReqSNR)
and
<Needfilter>
and
<LotWfilter>
and
<Modefilter>
and
<Bandfilter>
and
<Agefilter>

I "expected" to get spots with SP or LP of over 50, and higher, and I do, but I also get some spots where SP and LP are both blank (NOT on six meters).? Did I misunderstand something?

Thanks,
Earl / KD5XB

e e



Sent with secure email.

Virus software blocking dx pots dot com

 

Software that Dave recently recommended ( I cannot type it, because if I do, my email sender rejects it) is blocking dxpots.com due to a Trojan. I hav tried excluding it, I have added dxspots.com as an exclusion, I have added the ip address, I have added Spotcollector, and it continues to say the website is blocked, I am not familiar enough with the new piece of software to know what the next step is, any ideas??
Re: SP Prob & LP Prob

 

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Just before this was posted yesterday, I managed to work 5H1KB, Tanzania on 10 meters FT8.? As per my usual routine for suspected weak signals I looked at ±Ê°ù´Ç±è³Õ¾±±ð·É¡¯²õ prediction graph.? Not only was 10 meters predicted to be good, the chart had the maximum usable frequency above 6-meters.? I have never heard or worked a 6-meter African station from here on the West Coast.? But it was nice to see the prediction and maybe I¡¯ll work a few 6-meter African QS0s this sun Spot Cycle..

?

73,

Dave, w6de

?

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave AA6YQ via groups.io
Sent: 23 April, 2025 21:21
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DXLab] SP Prob & LP Prob

?

+ AA6YQ comments below

Should I be seeing SP Probability and LP Probability on 6 meters, or is this strictly 10-80 meters?

+ "when checked,??1.8.7 or later can be directed to generate Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and Probability predictions for Spot Database Entries whose frequencies are in the range of 2 Mhz to 30 Mhz."

+ That range excludes 160m and 6m; it's a limit of the VOACAP propagation prediction engine.



? ? ?73,

?

? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Dxkeeper and Spotcollector - no text displayed

 

+ AA6YQ comments below

Dxkeeper and Spotcollector - no text displayed

DXKeeper errorlog
2025-04-24 09:44:11.987 > I = 126
2025-04-24 09:44:11.987 > DXLogMain.LogGrid.Columns.Count = 126
2025-04-24 09:44:47.012 > program error -2147221164 in module DXLogModule.InitializeLogLayout, State = 2: Class not registered
2025-04-24 09:44:49.137 > program error -2147221164 in module DXLogModule.FormatLogGrid, State = 2: Class not registered

+ "Class not registered" means that your DXKeeper installation has been corrupted. To repair it,

1. make sure you have a backup of your log stored elsewhere. Don't delete anything.

2. terminate all applications except the Launcher

3. direct the Launcher to create a new Workspace, and populate it with DXKeeper's settings

4. terminate the Launcher

5. reboot Windows

6. using the Windows Control Panel's "Uninstall an program" function, direct Windows to uninstall DXKeeper

7. start the Launcher, and direct it to install DXKeeper

8. start DXKeeper; if DXKeeper's settings are missing, terminate DXKeeper, direct the Launcher to recover DXKeeper's settings from the Workspace you created in step 3, and then restart DXKeeper

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Display more memories

 

Dave's Commander manual says (and maybe this can help you):

To help keep track of each memory's purpose,? you can record notes that pop up whenever the mouse cursor hovers over the memory's Sel button. To record such notes,? depress the Ctrl key while clicking the Sel button; Commander will display a Memory Notes Editor window that allows you to capture notes:

  • notes may not contain the angle bracket characters < or > .

  • clicking the Notes Editor's Insert Timestamp button appends a the current UTC date and time to the notes

You can direct Commander to display each memory's notes in place of its frequency, mode, and filter -- simply click the command button captioned ~ in the upper right corner of the memory bank panel. To return to a display of memory frequency, mode, and filter, click the ~ button again.
73 de ON6TM,
Tony
Re: Display more memories

 

Dx commander memories are handy for me since my biological memory is awful. ?Could a small title bar be added over each memory list in dx commander? We have 10 frequency lists, but it is not obvious which is which among those that you use less often.?
73,
Tom ai4th
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