Version 3.24, 15-05-2003

NEW FEATURES

• New rig available on TL's CAT menu, the IC-765: Thanks to Mike/GU4EON for providing information concerning the CAT-file for the IC-765. This info and test samples reported from the built-in trace-utility ( CTRL-B ) revealed an unexpected behavior of the rig. Instead of ICOM's standard 17 Bytes response from the rig only 15 Bytes were received. The read-freq command line was adapted accordingly and all of a sudden the freq-info was available. A new CAT-file was created and is now avalable as IC-765A.CAT. This result should encourage other users to run tests by means of the trace-utility in order to find out what really happens in cases believed to be "hopeless". The solution is straight forward in most cases...thanks to TL's flexible CAT design scheme.

• QSL label editing: Following suggestions from the TurboLog e-mail reflector we have redesigned the editing facilities. The edit window now covers the maximum possible size of the DOS screen. The preview window, however, is still existing. Press the F2 key to toggle between both views. The same colors are used in both windows. The preview box is easily recognized by the missing dots which serve as placeholders for the character positions.

  Please note: We now offer plenty of space for editing text to appear on your label. You need to check yourself, however, whether the text fits your label size after you have applied the various possible modes of printing such as bold, compressed, italic, etc. We recommend to carry out test prints in order to find out whether your textsize meets your labelsize. This makes sure not to waste valuable label sheets.

• New TNC and cluster messages exploited: Unstable links created trouble in case the link fails and TL didn't realize this to happen. In vain you would wait for new spots to arrive on the Filtered Screen while a failure message has arrived since long time on the Basic window. Since the failure message would not result in a popup alert we have now included the following messages to be signalled and displayed as popups:

LINK FAILURE with ....

RECONNECTED to ....

In the first case the link status shown in the banner line is automatically reset to "disconnected". This makes it easier to start a new attempt to connect to the cluster.

• Using a transverter with TL: The transverter facility was redesigned and now works perfectly. If you want to apply a transverter you should follow these steps:

  1. Only use 28...30 MHz as base band to drive your device.

  2. Move into the ADVANCED SETUP submenu BANDS & MODES, select item "I" (28MHz-band) and edit the transverter features as follows: Activate transverting by selecting TRANSVERTER:1 In case of 50MHz set local oscillator offset to: 22000.00 (KHz).

  3. Again in BANDS & MODES, now select item "J" (50MHz-band) and7 edit the transverter features as follows: Activate transverting by selecting TRANSVERTER:1 Set local oscillator offset to: -22000.00 (KHz). Please note the negative sign!!

  4. Save these changes. Press "Z" and also select SAVE from the FILE menu in order to make changes available on yor current session.

  If you now tune your rig in the 10m-band polling from TL will yield the correct readings. If you grap a 6m-spot yor rig will qsy correctly in the 10m-band while TL still shows the correct frequency on 6m.

• Locator in ADIF import: Since some foreign logs use the term GRIDSQUARE instead of LOCATOR as used in TL we have extended the ADIF import facilities to deal with this problem. TL now will import from either GRIDSQUARE or LOCATOR and move the data into TL's LOCATOR field. If there should be any log using both terms simultaneously....bad luck!

COUNTRY.DAT:

• R5 used to be a prefix for the Ukraine. Based on info from Nigel/G3TXF we reassigned it to European Russia.

Outlook for version 3.25:

• More preparations in view of the ARRL project "The Logbook of the World"
• Main emphasis, however, on TurboLog 4, the WINDOWS version which is under construction!
• Updates on COUNTRY.DAT, bug fixes ( hopefully not necessary....hi )
• Etc. etc.....

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