All in favor - click REPLY, then SEND ----- Original Message ----- From: "PY2YP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <dx4win@mailman.qth.net>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Randy Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Pre 1975 CW DXCC confirmations
>I second your posting. > > 73 DX de PY2YP - Cesar > www.py2yp.ws > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randy Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <dx4win@mailman.qth.net>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:08 PM > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Pre 1975 CW DXCC confirmations > > > | > | >I started this thread so I'll chime in a bit more. It seems to me that > | >all the responders so far (including Rapidan thru some private emails) > | >have agreed that processing pre 1975 CW confirmations is a problem with > | >DX4WIN. Some suggestions have been offered to circumvent the problem > | >but all suggestions have required some manual manipulation either with > | >the data itself or the DXCC reports or both. Since this is a known > | >deficiency might it be better to develop some ways to change the DX4WIN > | >internals such that no manipulation is necessary? > | > | I've used DX4WIN for several years as my sole general logging program > and > | still think it's the best of the lot. But... it's maddening that doing a > | DXCC CW report is guaranteed to give erroneous results if your log has > any > | CW QSOs prior to 1975. (My log has hundreds of them dating back to > 1964.) > | It's never been clear to me why a program that can instantly retrieve > IOTA > | designations from an external file can't use a similar technique to > filter > | for DXCC award purposes. Shortly after I began using Version 4, I recall > | Steve replying to my query about why it couldn't pick up DXCC-eligible > CW > | contacts to the effect "we can't possibly know the cutoff date for all > | awards." I would submit that DXCC CW is popular enough that an exception > | should be made for at least this one case. > | > | I handle picking up DXCC CW stats by putting all my post-1975 CW > contacts > | in a group I call "CW Eligible" and filter for this group prior to > | generating CW stats. It's a clumsy workaround, but it does get the job > | done. This functionality really should be built into the code. I hope we > | can get enough users to clamor for this long-overdue feature that it > will > | be built into succeeding versions. > | > | > | 73... > | Randy, W8FN > | > | > | _______________________________________________ > | Dx4win mailing list > | Dx4win@mailman.qth.net > | http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > | > | > | > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > Dx4win@mailman.qth.net > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
