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Digital Master 780

ALE Window

Call look up

  •  Click to open google earth in DM780 call look up is not working
  • Right-click on a callsign in the RX window, and select 'http://www.qrz.com/....., qrz returns just the main qrz.com page. It should send you to  http://www.qrz.com/callsign/............................
  •   Callsign Lookup pane - enter a call then press the QRZ button next to the call box - Linking is incorrect after some changes made by QRZ.com
  • Pop up when hovering over callsign requires more information added

QSO window

  • Centre frequency selection buttons are required on the waterfall toolbar - Actual settings choice to be left in option
  • Add CW Speed tags to macros.
  • Frequency up/down (change) arrows selection should be moved from favourites to Waterfall options

Soundcards

  •  Add warnings when the selected soundcard cannot be opened for TX or RX (see errors from Dennis N3DG).

SuperBrowser

  • Alarm option for 'Country not worked' in SuperBrowser

SSTV

  • When clicking FTP all - make popup window a confirmation.

World Map

  • QSO's not plotting on world map

Various

  • Make sure sensible defaults applied for the radio panes when a connection is made for the first time
  • IOTA Name field to be added
  •  Check Hell bandwidth / slider
  • The logbook selected in 'Program Options/logbook' in DM780 is not being associated with different identities - Each identity should remember the selected logbook.
  • Instant 'Kill' button to stop transmission without clearing the buffer
  •  When forced off the DX Cluster node because the same callsign has been used from another program then text similar to 'Reconnected as HB9DRV at 217.151.112.235, this instance is disconnected' is displayed. Suggestion is to display this in a popup and warn a user that you can only connect once per node per callsign.
  •  Check that the 'worked' status is sent to PSK Reporter.
  • Add macro support for CW speed.
  •  Check RSID amplitude levels
  • Not-compliant with WinXP Pro Ctrl+C Copy function for contents of DM780's Call, Name and QTH fields.
  • Add FSK.
  • Use a single class for MMError().
  • Olivia - allow all rate / bandwidth combinations.
  •  Set WinKey max. speed to 99 wpm, see http://forums.ham-radio.ch/showthread.php?t=16986

Ham Radio Deluxe

General

  • Enhancements to all programs in the suite for the visually impaired to enable voice reader for items such as menu drop down settings.
  • Clicking the ADD button should start the logbook if not already opened and if the logbook is open then the when the ALE window opens if should be on top
  • FreqMod2HRD problem.
  •  Crash when F4 pressed and window tabs are hidden hidden.

Radio Support:

  • IC7000 memory and menu management - HRD is loading from a file when you open the memory management window whereas it should auto load from the rig.
  • TS2000 Improve command interface
  • FT950 Improve command interface
  • FT-950 add R-FLT button
  • DZKit Sienna the command set is here
  •  SDR-1000 taking too long to switch to TX using PTT
  • Kemwood TS2000 menu #28a shows a setting of 2 when in reality the setting is OFF. When the setting is changed and re-downloaded the menus, menu displays a red X and also the setting displays "unknown (2) 2.
  • FT-950:
    • add rotator RO support,
    • check SWR, ALC and PWR function in TX mode

Rotator

Rotators

  • Problems with some Idiom Press systems
  • Add EASYCOMM I and  EASYCOMM II
  • Add M2 RC2800px
  • ST-3 (GS232) support for KB1CHU
  • Second numeric bearing indicators to be added to dials.

General

  • Add support for 24-bit video settings.
  • Find out why SatTrack must be run 'as Administrator' if the Rotator program is also started 'as Administrator', DDE not starting in SatTrack unless both run as Administrator.

Satellite Tracking

Radio Support

  •  Get the IC-910H working properly

General

  • More efficient use of radio interface in background thread
  • More efficient background drawing (if possible)
  • Find out why user interface is sluggish (HRD I/O in foreground)
  • Defaults for new windows, should show tuning bar
  • No need for Enable and Start in Rotator dropdown
  • Announcements - names need better logic
  •  More efficient map resizing / redrawing
  • Need better help for integrating Rotator and SatTrack - step by step.

Logbook

Awards & Contests

  • Awards tracking requires a lot more work including user defined award checking.
  • Award tracking contest templates to be added.
  • Add option to display QSL, EQSL or LOTW confirmed awards or combinations of the three types
  • Add customisable headers and footers to printouts
  • Add customisable print layout

ALE Window

IOTA

  • IOTA Island lists to be added to ALE window
  • In the ALE window IOTA Island names not being saved EG. select EU-124 and Flat Holm from the drop down, save it and then reopen the record and the island name is not there

Modes

  • Add additional modes like WSPR, WSJT etc

Call lookup

  •   Look up from Hamcall CD not working
  • Design special routine to truncate the first name fields on QRZ look up of first name to exclude any initial
  • QRZ lookup can cause a popup window to be displayed if the CQ or ITU zones differ from the set defaults for Example entering N6DZR or UE3EPC/3 plus of course many more that have not yet been identified.
  • In the QRZ popup window should indicate which fields are different from current
  • Large coloured 'Worked' banner required
  •  Location tab not filling correctly especially with relation to 'State'

Functional

  • Show/Hide button for Tabs on tool bar
  • Add Satellite name field to window
  • Add vertical scrollbar to My Station and other tabs on an 'as needed' basis
  •   Add a selection to the eQSL tab to allow on the fly individual uploads as in V4.00
  •  Support for net opperation both as a participant and controller
  • Custom field titles cannot be modified by the user
  • Check functionality of all other tabs as above
  •  Record facility
  • ALE window must track VFO A or VFO B and which VFO is actually TX and which is RX. The Logbook ALE fields need to clearly indicate which is TX frequency and which is RX frequency and be logged as such.
  • When the size of the ALE window is smaller than that capable of displaying the entire array of fields comprising the My Station Tab, a vertical scroll thumb should appear at the right vertical edge of the tabbed portion of the dialog
  •  ALE minimise bug - see http://forums.ham-radio.ch/showthread.php?t=17292
  • When connecting to HRD and the HRD IP server is not running the error message displayed is confusing, especially point
  • Column widths not remembered
  • In the toolbar Logbook dropdown the 'selections' title need to be changed to 'Edit selections' or similar
  • Duplicate checking facility for existing logbook and on import
  • Single click close down of all programs in suite
  •  Google earth display from logbook - Single & multiple entries
  • Column justification with right mouse click not working
  • General tidying of Radio pane and additional buttons/sliders
  • The Numeric Main and Sub Freq displays in the Logbook's Radio Pane and Tool bar are not centred
  • Auto width is not remembered on restart
  • Add option to switch off Radio Screen (screen saver) when user mouse the mouse or presses a key.
  •   Print log titles to be user definable

Data

  • ASCII export to be implemented
  • Selecting a new Callsign or Country must update the Location fields.
  • If a call sign filter is in opperation, any call added to the logbook in the ALE window also shows in the filtered list although the logbook is being filtered by a different call sign
  • Confirm Delete QSOs should display number of QSOs to be deleted
  • Contest serial numbers are not persistant if the ALE window is closed and then re-opened
  • When changing Locator in My Station do not update Lat/Lon automatically.
  • ITU zone problem see post 26 here http://forums.ham-radio.ch/showthread.php?t=16704&page=3
  • Antennas not being saved.
  • When QSL, EQSL or LOTW has not been received or sent there should not be a received or sent date displayed
  • Relocate the 'Browse Storage' link to a more logical menu
  • Cabrillo export to be added
  • QSL sent/received Date not honouring UTC setting
  • Database titles truncated when using certain combinations of fonts & themes
  • Support to be added for LOTW
  • Bulk editor not calculating distance and heading correctly in every circumstance and we probably need to link to call sign lookup to overcome this.
  • Missing display of the My Station antenna information in both bulk editor and logbook layout
  • Display Lat and Lon using N
  • ,S,E and W rather than + and -, do this in main logbook window and distance and heading bulk editor. 
  • When saving a QSO always update WPX field.
  • Add bulk auto-update of the WPX field.

Standalone (Without HRD running)

  • Having stopped tracking of freq, band & mode it is not persistent when the ALE window is closed and re-opened
  • Clicking on a DX spot enters the stations details OK but does not enter the frequency and band into the ALE window

Maps

  • Main mapper to be added similar to DM780 and HRD to include station and award plotting with locator squares etc

Tuner

  • Ability to modify the colour of the frequency bar and slider knob
  • S Meter to be added
  •   Quick favourites facility missing
  • Favourites markers missing

DX Cluster

  • Bandmap call signs not positioned against frequency correctly
  •  Call lookup from cluster spot does not display details if a /A, /P, -1 etc are present in the call sign shown by the cluster
  • Bandmap and cluster single and double click preferences to coincide and refine ALE window freq update by VFO
  • Add support for AR Cluster nodes
  • When seeting frequency only set the main VFO (K3-related problem).

Audio control centre

  •  Voice keyer with memories

Interfacing

  •  Add UDP forwarding (as per HRD v4 logbook)
  •  Document the interface used by DM780 to forward QSO's etc.

HRDLabel

  • HRDLogbookInterfaceGetRecordsEx(nCount, nStart, lpszCallsign, lpszFields, nReturn)
    Return nCount records, starting from nstart position

    It is usefull to get large database:
    HRDLogbookInterfaceGetRecordsEx(100, 0, ...); // from 0 to 99
    HRDLogbookInterfaceGetRecordsEx(100, 100, ...); // from 100 to 199
    HRDLogbookInterfaceGetRecordsEx(100, 200, ...); // from 200 to 299
  • HRDLogbookInterfaceGetRecordsEx nReturn bug
    nReturn return always 0
  • HRDLogbookInterfaceUpdateRecord(Key, Fields, Values)
    A function to modify a record
  • New field in the database
    Contribution (Dollar/Euro/IRC put inside the envelope for direct QSL) 

HRDLOG.net

  • Relocate the link to HRDLog.net to a more logical menu position.

 

 


Documentation

Add website pages for

  • Using DM780 and the IC-7600
  • Performance tuning
  • Using RSID
  • How to use a .mdb file copied from another computer

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