60 meter band not logging properly

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Re: 60 meter band not logging properly

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All bugs will be fixed
Problem is finding why it works badly on a single band, where bands are exactly the same for the app
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Re: 60 meter band not logging properly

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Hey gang, I've figured this out. I'm sure Daniele has too but if you can't wait for the update in a new release, here's what I've done.

The issue is in the bandplan xml document. I'm in the US so the document that affects my bandplan is Users\<probably your name>\AppData\Roaming\Log4OM2\bandplan\bandplan_dxcc291.xml

In that document you will find the following:
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In the 60 meter section you will find Channel 3 (hi-lited in yellow) defined as a PHONE frequency from 5356.995 to 5357.005. You will also find Channel 4 (hi-lited in orange) defined as DIGITAL with a similar frequency definition.

To fix this problem, edit the .xml to this:
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Channel 3 is changed to DIGITAL and Channel 4 to PHONE. I use JTAlert in conjunction with WSJT-X and the logged QSO frequency is the dial frequency + transmitted audio frequency. So I have changed the band end frequency for Channel 3 to 5357 + 2.8 Khz or 5359.805. I don't know why the additional 5 Hz is in the bandplan documents but I stayed with that convention.

Now when I edit a QSO I see this:
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Also, the ! with a red triangle around it on the main UI is gone when I transmit. I just used Notepad as the editor and of course saved a copy of the original .xml before starting.

What I've described is for DXCC Entity 291. If your Entity is different and you are experiencing the same problem, the solution should be the same but in a different bandplan document.

I hope this is helpful.
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Re: 60 meter band not logging properly

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Be sure to save your original file for backup ... just in case.
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KI5IO wrote: 07 Apr 2020, 19:04 Be sure to save your original file for backup ... just in case.
Better to save it as a user file then it wont get overwritten
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Re: 60 meter band not logging properly

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G4POP wrote: 07 Apr 2020, 19:30
KI5IO wrote: 07 Apr 2020, 19:04 Be sure to save your original file for backup ... just in case.
Better to save it as a user file then it wont get overwritten
Terry,

I like that idea. How would I do that, rename the file to bandplan_dxcc291_user.xml ? I think that's how it worked in V1 when you edited files using the provided tool.
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Save it as bandplan_dxcc291_user.xml

If you do so Log4OM will only use this bandplan for you and it wouldn´t be
overwritten if bandplan updates are installed in future versions.

;) ;)
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Re: 60 meter band not logging properly

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DF5WW wrote: 08 Apr 2020, 03:09 Save it as bandplan_dxcc291_user.xml

If you do so Log4OM will only use this bandplan for you and it wouldn´t be
overwritten if bandplan updates are installed in future versions.

;) ;)
Juergen,

Thank you for the tip, that was how it worked in V1 too.

However, I just tried this and if I only have bandplan_dxcc291_user.xml in the bandplan folder it works fine but if I also have the original bandplan_dxcc291.xml in the folder, Log4OM uses the original file, not my modified one. That doesn't seem correct. It should prefer the user version over the original file. Perhaps a little bug there.
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By the way, forgot so say it. After you have saved the new bandpan_dxcc291_user.xml did
you have restarted the software ? That´s a must have or it don´t works for the moment.

;) ;)
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Re: 60 meter band not logging properly

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DF5WW wrote: 08 Apr 2020, 15:45 By the way, forgot so say it. After you have saved the new bandpan_dxcc291_user.xml did
you have restarted the software ? That´s a must have or it don´t works for the moment.
Juergen,

Yes, Log4OM was restarted. In fact, I ended Log4OM before making the file name changes. I then restarted Log4OM.
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Re: 60 meter band not logging properly

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NS8K wrote: 09 Apr 2020, 01:04
DF5WW wrote: 08 Apr 2020, 15:45 By the way, forgot so say it. After you have saved the new bandpan_dxcc291_user.xml did
you have restarted the software ? That´s a must have or it don´t works for the moment.
Juergen,

Yes, Log4OM was restarted. In fact, I ended Log4OM before making the file name changes. I then restarted Log4OM.
Try bandplan_user_dxcc291.xml
73 Terry G4POP
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