DX-Telnet Support

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DX-Telnet is a great Telnet program written by Fabrizio IK4VYX. This program was made especially for use on the internet DX Clusters.

Note: you can also connect to DX-Telnet using SWISSLOG's Telnet Support.

You can download DX-Telnet from http://www.qsl.net/wd4ngb/telnet.htm.

Connect DX-Telnet to SWISSLOG

DX-Telnet can be started as DX-Plorer, DX-Telnet and DX-TNC. For each type a separate configuration file exists; therefore the following steps must be executed for each type..

Note: under Windows NT, 2000 and XP the utility DDEdupe  is needed to connect to SWISSLOG. It is contained in the DX-Telnet package and must run in  parallel With DX-Telnet.

• Start DX-Telnet. Press Esc to hide the site list window.

• Click the upper left "Configuration" menu, then the "Links" submenu.

• In the "Link to DX-HUNTER or external Log" section checkmark the "Enable Link" check box and type C:\DXTELNET\DDEDUPE\ in the path textbox.
  
      Note: if you installed DX-Telnet on D:\DXTELNET the above path becomes: D:\DXTELNET\DDEDUPE\
  

• In DDE link to a Windows application enter

  • EXE Name = DDEDUPE

  • Link Topic = DDETOPIC

  • Link Item    = DDEITEM

• It should look similar to this:

  

   

• Press "Save" to save changes.

• Quit and restart DX-Telnet connecting to any of the listed sites. For example connect to the CQDX-IRC node. 

• Now start C:\DXTELNET\DDEDUPE\DDEdupe.exe.  Note: DDEdupe is a link tool embedded in the DXTELNET package. 

• In DDEdupe on the right side (DDE TX Parameters) enter the following values in capital letters:

  • ExeName = SWISSLOG 

  • LinkTopic = SWLPACKET 

  • LinkItem = PACKET 

  • Press the Apply button 

  • It should look similar to this:

  

   

• Now start SWISSLOG and set it so that it can receive the spots from DXTelnet: 

• the following steps need to be executed only once

  • In the "Options" menu click the "Connect to the packet program" submenu. 

  • In the "Selection" tab select "DX-Telnet" 

  • then click "Start connection" 

  • then click "Close" 

• Open the DX-Cluster Window (press Ctrl+D  or 'View' menu) to see the DX Cluster messages. 

• connect to the cluster

  • SWISSLOG will automatically connect to the last connected cluster. The first time, or each time you start DX-Telnet with a new cluster connected, you need to connect to SWISSLOG. To connect you have to use the name displayed between [] in the DX-Telnet window title. Because DX-Telnet connects automatically to the last used cluster when started SWISSLOG can connect automatically most of the time.

  • press the Connect button to connect and enter the connect name

  

From now on DX-Telnet spots should appear in SWISSLOG's DX-Messages window. 

Start DX-Telnet for SWISSLOG once it is configured correctly

If DX-Telnet, DDEdupe and SWISSLOG are configured correctly (DX-Spots where received successfully) then the following steps must be performed to start DX-Telnet for SWISSLOG:

• start DX-Telnet

• start DDEDUPE  (can be minimized, but must run)

• open the DX-Cluster window (press Ctrl+D or 'View' menu) to see the DX Cluster messages. 

• it may be necessary to connect to the cluster

If you have a problem please contact IK4VYX - Fabrizio Sartoni (click to send Email)