DX-Telnet Support
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.
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.
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)
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Last modified: 01 Jan 2005