Headings and propagation
Headings and propagation
There are three commands in DXSpider to help you get the best DX possible. These are SHOW/SUN, SHOW/MOON and SHOW/HEADING. These commands will only work for you if you have entered your personal details. They use your entered location as a reference, so if you have not entered it or have entered it incorrectly they will not return the correct information.
Sun
The SHOW/SUN command can be used in three different ways. It can be used to show sunrise and sunset times for your own station, a particular callsign or a prefix.
Example:
show/sun
The output from this would look something like this ..
sh/sun Location Rise Set Azim Elev G0VGS Morecambe, Lancashire 07:08Z 17:39Z 205.3 24.1
and
sh/sun 5b4
would look like this ...
sh/sun 5b4 Location Rise Set Azim Elev 5B Cyprus-5B 04:23Z 15:40Z 244.0 18.8
You can also specify multiple arguments like this ...
sh/sun gw4veq 5b4ab zs
and then the output would look like this ...
sh/sun gw4veq 5b4ab zs Location Rise Set Azim Elev GW4VEQ Brungwran, Isle of Anglesey IO 07:14Z 17:48Z 204.9 24.9 5B Cyprus-5B 04:23Z 15:40Z 244.5 18.3 ZS So-Africa-ZS1-ZS 04:31Z 17:28Z 289.9 41.3 ZS So-Africa-ZS5-ZS 03:44Z 16:34Z 278.5 32.0 ZS So-Africa-ZS6-ZS 03:59Z 16:42Z 277.6 35.0
Moon
The SHOW/MOON command works in the same way as the SHOW/SUN command. This program however, calculates the rise and set times of the moon for a prefix or callsign, together with the current azimuth and elevation of the sun at these locations.
Example:
show/moon ea
The output from this command would look like this ..
sh/moon ea Location Rise Set Azim Elev RGain dB EA Spain-EA 08:15Z 20:09Z 257.2 9.5 -0.6
You can see that the output is similar to the SHOW/SUN command, with slightly different fields.
Heading
The SHOW/HEADING command works in the same way as the SHOW/SUN and SHOW/MOON commands but outputs beam headings for a specified callsign or prefix. Reciprocal beam headings are also calculated.
Example:
show/heading zl
The output from this command would look like this ..
sh/heading zl ZL New-Zealand-ZL1-ZL: 7 degs - dist: 11238 mi, 18087 km Reciprocal heading: 355 degs ZL New-Zealand-ZL2-ZL: 9 degs - dist: 11540 mi, 18574 km Reciprocal heading: 353 degs ZL New-Zealand-ZL3-ZL: 19 degs - dist: 11634 mi, 18724 km Reciprocal heading: 345 degs ZL New-Zealand-ZL4-ZL: 34 degs - dist: 11783 mi, 18963 km Reciprocal heading: 332 degs