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STARTUP NOTES.
DXHUNTER: advanced DX cluster management for PC and TNC (no BAYCOM).
1) Installation.
Complete installation requires about 2 MB free space onto Hard Disk.
To install type INSTALL then press Enter. You can specify the
installation directory (C:\DXHUNTER default) where you want the SW to
be installed.
Once you've installed you'll have to add C:\DXHUNTER\LIB (or
YOURPATH\LIB, if you installed to a different path) to the PATH string
of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, then reboot PC to make this change
effective.
For further details about installation see also file README.1ST.
MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF YOUR FLOPPY (Diskcopy A: A:).
***WARNING !!! If you operate a Kantronics TNC, first of all edit the
file named COMMANDS.INI and change the CS parameter into S.
2) FIRST CONFIGURATION. To configure DXHUNTER, go into DXHUNTER
directory, type menu and choose CONFIG; doing so, you'll start
configuration program, made of 4 pages; now let's focus our attention
on the 1st page.
Some parameters may be directly typed; this happens when cursor is
active into the current cell; some other parameters have a choice set,
this means that you can change the value by simply pressing the arrow
keys. At this step, give correct value to communication parameters
such as communication port (COM1.. COM8) data speed, parity and stop
bits. Another important parameter to set is the connection string; to
do it, select the second line (with Up Dn arrow keys) then type the
whole command string you normally use to connect to PACKET CLUSTER
(ex. CONNECT CLSTR-6, where CLSTR-6 is the name of your PACKET
CLUSTER).
You can specify multistep connection using the special character "#"
as separation between close fields ex. CONNECT DIGIPEATER1#CONNECT
DIGIPEATER2#CONNECT DIGIPEATER 3#CONNECT CLSTR-6 VIA NODE. Don't worry
if the edit cell seems to be narrow, you have up to 500 characters
capacity (the cell shifts!). Once you've edited the whole connection
string, check if it's correct, shifting on it, with left/right arrow
keys.
With the same technique you can set initialzation/end commands on the
first line, considering that you must separate single commands with
"#" and you can specify end session commands with the character "!"
ex.:
CMD1 # CMD2 ! CMD3 # CMD4; in this exmple CMD1 and CMD2 are issued at
start, CMD3 and CMD4 at end.
WARNING !!! if your modem is a PK232 or PK88 or similar, and you
normally use the program PC-PAKRATT, or any other program working in
HOST MODE, consider that DXHUNTER doesn't work in host mode; so, to
use it alternatively with PC-PAKRATT, without restarting the modem,
you must specify, as first initialization command, the string ^AOHON^W
in caps letters (showed as OHON) followed by a # and by the command
PACKET. When you exit DXHUNTER, if you want to use PC-PAKRATT, again,
set HOST ON as final command.
Ex. OHON # PACKET # MYCALL... ! HOST ON (HOST ON will be issued only
at exit because of the "!".
WARNING !!! if your modem is a PK232 or PK88 or similar and you don't
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use a backup battery, put one or more "*" characters at the very
beginning of the initialization string; ex. *+*+*+#MYCALL IK4VYX...
The "+" character means a one second pause.
WARNING !!! if your modem supports the EXPert commands, (PK900) be
sure that EXPert is set to ON and BBSmsgs to OFF; (you can specify it
in initialization string:
EXP ON#BBS OFF#MYCALL IK4VYX...).
WARNING !!! if the TNC continuously displays some strange messages
such as "Z stream: link state is disconnected", see file PCMODEM.TXT,
where this problem is discussed.
3) FIRST START OF DXHUNT. Now you're ready to start DXHUNT; be sure
that your modem is switched on, in packet mode, and not in HOST MODE.
Start menu, then choose DX HUNTER and press Enter. If everything is
OK, after a certain time, DXHUNT would have to tell you that PACKET
CLUSTER is not connected. If you're not able to reach this step, and
you don't fall into any case previously described, check with another
terminal program that SENDpac=13 ($0D or Ctrl-M) and that
COMmand=03($03 or Ctrl-C). If problem persists, raise the value of 7th
and 8th parameters into file COMMANDS.INI; anyway for this kind of
problems see file PCMODEM.TXT into DOC subdirectory, or see
TROUBLES.TXT section).
Finally if you use a 3 wires cable (RX TX GND), set XON/XOFF flow
control to YES in config: you'll avoid data loss.
If your cable is complete, a hardware flow control is recommended
(setting USE RTS/CTS lines to YES in CONFIG).
In addition to a few initialization commands directly edited in
CONFIG, you can also specify a complete configuration command set
(useful if modem's backup battery is discharged).
Commands must be listed into an ASCII file, then path and command set
file name must be specified in COMMANDS.INI (6th parameter).
To complete the configuration, youll'have to start DXMAP and manually
map your DXCC situation into each country, band and mode.
This operation is very simple, but sometimes annoying. If you use
certain logs, this operation could be automatic and quick! (see
CONVERT.TXT for a list of supported logs).
If you have serious problems or doubts you can communicate them via
BBS (IK4VYX@I4UJB.IEMR.ITA.EU) or via phone +39 545 32916 (ask for
Fabrizio, after 19 UTC).
THE DXHUNTER: THE SOFT WAY OF HUNTING!!!.
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