Woodstock, GA – March 26, 2001 – The DXbase software uses an industry standard means for making connections to the internet.  As such, connecting to any server whether it be across the country or on your very own computer is simply a matter of connecting to the appropriate IP address.  Fabrizio, IK4VYX, the author of DXTelnet has successfully interfaced DXbase with his DXTelnet program so that the information being furnished to DXbase comes from his software after it has been processed within DXTelnet.  The procedure for accomplishing this is explained below.   In his words, "... connect DXTelnet to any of its listed sites and feed DXbase with the spots received without using any additional port, hardware, or special software coding.  Just use a local IP/TCP connection".

1.  Start DXTelnet and scroll the node list to the upper items till the "Accept" item appears as selected.  Click the edit button at the right.  Rename the "Accept" item as "Accept_2.   That is, where you see written "Accept" in the "Site Name" box, append a _2  ( underscore and the numeric digit 2.

2.  Look at the parameters listed below the Site Name information.  Where you see "service port" it is now set to custom 80.   Click the telnet option instead.

3.  Click the "Edit Script" button at the right.  The script text should appear as follows:

/S !!!Welcome into $$$$'s Telnet Box

/S !!!Please Login With your callsign

/S !!!login:

'/F RELAY

Notice the last line that begins with the character ( ' ).  Remove the first character so that the line looks like this:

/F RELAY

Click OK to save the script changes, then OK again to save node changes.

4.  Quit DXTelnet

5.  Restart DXTelnet and connect to the CQDX-IRC node.

6.  Start a second DXTelnet session, select "Accept_2" as node and press enter.  You should see "Waiting for incoming calls" in DXTelnet Accept_2.

7.  Now start your browser and in the URL box type the following:

telnet://127.0.0.1

You should see connected to the DXTelnet accept_2 session which will display the following banner into your browser's telnet:

Welcome into ( your callsign )'s Telnet Box

Please Login With your callsign

login:

At the "login:" prompt in the telnet session launched by your browser, type your callsign followed by pressing the Enter Key.  Now wait for a DX spot to be received by the CQDX-IRC DXTelnet session.  When it is received, it should also be displayed in your browser's telnet session.  If this works as described, quit the browser's telnet application.  Also, quit DXTelnet Accept_2 and restart it again in Accept_2.  You should see "Waiting for incoming calls" in DXTelnet Accept_2 again.

1.  Start DXbase.  From the main menu, select FILE/Modify Hosts.  Scroll through the list to see if an entry of 127.0.0.1 already exists.  If it does, then close this window since the required entry is already there.  If it is not there, click on new, enter 127.0.0.1 and click OK.

2.  From the main menu, select TOOLS/Options/User Options and then select the Internet tab.  Select 127.0.0.1 from the list of Host entries and click OK.

3.  From the main menu select Window/New Internet Window as usual and the connection to the DXTelnet should be made and the operation of the internet interface within DXbase should operate as normal.

That's it.

NOTE:  When using this arrangement, you must first establish the DXTelnet connections before attempting to open an internet window in DXbase.   If DXTelnet is not already running, the internet connection in DXbase will fail.

Comments regarding this procedure or about DXTelnet can be addressed to Fabrizio Sartone, IK4VYX at rac2610@racine.ra.it.