A couple bugs that bug me
Posted: Sat 23. Nov 2013, 21:15
This one I just found, and took me a little while to work around. Last night I found that some of my QSO records, though marked as sent, weren't actually in LoTW. Rather than pick through them all, I just resent all my "sent" ones, since it wasn't many (161) and had them reprocessed. Unfortunately a couple dupes were created in LoTW, and in an attempt to make sure the numbers there match the number in my log, I created dummy entries for those records in my log and set the QSL status to '-' for paper, LoTW and eQSL. This morning, every QSO defaulted to '-' for paper and I couldn't get it to revert to the default 'W' again. Based on the information from http://dl2rum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=161&p=706 I tried saving some dummy contacts, but it didn't help. Finally I set the paper QSL value to 'W', left it like that and quit the program; on next invocation, it now uses the default 'W'. So it seems that the bug is that the default status isn't from the last contact saved, but instead whatever the value was when the program was quit.
The second one has been around for a little while, and I'm finally getting around to mentioning it (I know, I'm a bad user :> ) When I start RUMlog I have many windows set to open including the ARRL and eQSL windows, as well as the DX Cluster terminal window. One of the commands sent to the cluster upon connect is 'sh/dx/50' to populate my bandmaps a bit and see what's been happening recently. The bug is that if I close the eQSL window (or possibly just the ARRL one, I haven't tried that one alone) I get a pop-up error window that says the program must shut down. And in showing just how bad a user I am right now, I can neither make the program do it, nor do I have a screenshot of the error to report what it says. So, if this isn't helpful enough I'll try to find it later - it might need there to be some data that was downloaded from eQSL in the window to affect it, and since I have nothing to pull down right now it's not happening. But next time, I promise, I'll screen cap it :>
Last, a feature question. I have a TS-2000 which works great with rig control except at higher frequencies (it seems the higher the frequency goes, the longer between updates so the band map moves much slower and is jumpy and the frequency display in RUMlog takes a while to update). One thing though, if I tell it to go to a digital part of the band and it switches to sideband (since I have "Force AFSK" checked) it always uses LSB instead of USB. All of the programs I use for digital modes expect USB mode, so I always have to hit the button on the transceiver. Is there a setting to change that from LSB to USB somewhere?
The second one has been around for a little while, and I'm finally getting around to mentioning it (I know, I'm a bad user :> ) When I start RUMlog I have many windows set to open including the ARRL and eQSL windows, as well as the DX Cluster terminal window. One of the commands sent to the cluster upon connect is 'sh/dx/50' to populate my bandmaps a bit and see what's been happening recently. The bug is that if I close the eQSL window (or possibly just the ARRL one, I haven't tried that one alone) I get a pop-up error window that says the program must shut down. And in showing just how bad a user I am right now, I can neither make the program do it, nor do I have a screenshot of the error to report what it says. So, if this isn't helpful enough I'll try to find it later - it might need there to be some data that was downloaded from eQSL in the window to affect it, and since I have nothing to pull down right now it's not happening. But next time, I promise, I'll screen cap it :>
Last, a feature question. I have a TS-2000 which works great with rig control except at higher frequencies (it seems the higher the frequency goes, the longer between updates so the band map moves much slower and is jumpy and the frequency display in RUMlog takes a while to update). One thing though, if I tell it to go to a digital part of the band and it switches to sideband (since I have "Force AFSK" checked) it always uses LSB instead of USB. All of the programs I use for digital modes expect USB mode, so I always have to hit the button on the transceiver. Is there a setting to change that from LSB to USB somewhere?