Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN Custom Award database release 24.2 - 31 March 2024
On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 12:57 PM David K2DBK wrote: > I finally got around to doing this today. I've got a bunch of contacts that > are tagged for POTA but don't have the park number for whatever reason. If I > run the Multi QSOs check awards it puts "AWDERR: AwdV= Msg=Award value is > empty" in the Notes for the this QSO field. This totally makes sense. > > I tried changing my search to put "*" in the award value field and I don't > get any errors, but it also says that nothing is changed. I'm not sure if > that's expected or not. > > Obviously I was testing with backup copies and I'm going with the one that > has the error message for now, but I wanted to let you know about this. I just tried this with my own log. If I perform an F8 search with Custom award = POTA, and don't change anything in the Custom award value field, DX4WIN finds 1960 POTA QSOs in my log. If I perform an F8 search with Custom award = POTA and '*' (asterisk) in the Custom award value field, DX4WIN finds 1927 QSOs in my log. It does not find the 33 QSOs that have POTA in the Custom award field, but no park number in the Custom award value field. I am running DX4WIN 9.0.9.1259 As far as I can tell, this works as I described in my E-mail dated Saturday, March 30, 2024. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , https://ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN Custom Award database release 24.2 - 31 March 2024
The Custom Award database for DX4WIN 8.05 and earlier is fixed. You can use the DX4WIN Data Updater to update the Custom Awards database. If you have any problems, please let me know ASAP. -- Forwarded message - From: Jim Reisert AD1C Date: Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 6:42 PM Subject: [Dx4win] DX4WIN Custom Award database release 24.2 - 31 March 2024 To: The DX4WIN Custom Award database was updated on 31 March 2024. It contains 227 awards. This is a link to the release notes: https://ad1c.us/dx4win/awards/index.html#24.2 DX4WIN 9 users should use Help | Check for Updates from the main menu. Note that there may be a delay between this announcement and when the updated custom awards database is actually available. Users of older versions of DX4WIN should use the DX4WIN Data Updater: https://ad1c.us/dx4win/updater The ZIP file also contains a number of membership list files (plain-text files with a .list extension). These can be used to identify member calls in the DX Spots window. Please read the application note on Membership Lists for more information. These are the changes: 24.2 - 31 March 2024 [AGCW] Activity Group CW-DL (updated) [ALZS] All Bulgarian Saints (updated) [DCE1] Diploma Castillos de España 1.0 (2012-) (updated) [CWOP] CW Operators' Club (updated) [DEE] Diploma Ermitas de España Award (DEE) (updated) [DFCF] French Forts and Castles (DFCF) (updated) [DIG] Diplom Interessen Gruppe (updated) [SDOK] German Sonder-DOK (updated) [DME] Diploma Municipios de España (Towns of Spain Award) (updated) [DMVE] Diploma Monumentos y Vestigios de España (updated) [FIST] FISTS - Int'l Morse Preservation Society (updated) [FOC] First Class CW Operators' Club (updated) [LZTT] St. Teodosii Tyrnovski Award (2015-) (updated) [NAQR] North American QRP CW Club (updated) [POTA] Parks on the Air (updated) [SKCC] Straight Key Century Club (updated) [SOTA] Summits on the Air (updated) [USIA] United States Islands Award (updated) [WADA] Worked Antarctic Directory Award (updated) [WCA] World Castles Award (updated) [WFF] World Wide Flora Fauna (updated) Please let me know if there are any problems. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , https://ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN Custom Award database release 24.2 - 31 March 2024
On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 6:42 PM Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > The DX4WIN Custom Award database was updated on 31 March 2024. > It contains 227 awards. This is a link to the release notes: > > https://ad1c.us/dx4win/awards/index.html#24.2 If you are using DX4WIN 8.x or earlier, please do NOT update the Custom Awards database! Luc EA8AM reported a problem using the new database. I think I had temporarily disabled some code while building the Parks on the Air Custom Award, and forgot to enable that code again. I'll publish an update after 00z on Tuesday, April 2. If you have already updated using the DX4WIN Data Updater, exit DX4WIN, then copy DX4WIN.AWD from your BACKUP directory to your SAVE directory. Or you can download the previous version from here: https://ad1c.us/dx4win/awards/#24.1 I apologize for the error. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , https://ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN Custom Award database release 24.2 - 31 March 2024
> The DX4WIN Custom Award database was updated on 31 March 2024. > It contains 227 awards. This is a link to the release notes: > > https://ad1c.us/dx4win/awards/index.html#24.2 If you are tracking Parks on the Air (POTA), then please read the rest of this message. Otherwise, you can ignore it. As I have posted on the DX4WIN reflector more than once recently, the Parks on the Air custom award went through a major upheaval with respect to reference numbers. For example, all of the USA park numbers beginning with K- now begin with US- In this release, I have tried to maintain the original reference number system. This is an intermediate step to converting all the park reference numbers to their new numbers. The next step will be to create a path for existing DX4WIN users to convert their old park numbers to the new park numbers. Why did I do it this way: 1. I had to do this so that users of DX4WIN 8.x and earlier could continue to track the award. That version of DX4WIN does not have any built-in way to convert custom award reference numbers. So the original set of reference numbers needs to be maintained. I *strongly* recommend that anyone who is tracking the Parks on the Air custom award upgrade to DX4WIN 9.x if you have not already. 2. The software I wrote to maintain the original park reference numbers will be turned into a set of rules that the Multiple QSO operation, "Check Custom Awards" in DX4WIN 9.x will use to convert the old park numbers to the new park numbers. Any DX4WIN 9.x user who tracks the Parks on the Air custom award should perform the following step after updating the Custom Award database: QSO | Multiple QSO operations | Check Custom Awards NOTE: You should use an F8 search and select "POTA" in the "Custom award" field in your logbook. Then perform the multiple QSO operation shown above. When it asks whether to use the current filter, answer Yes. This will allow DX4WIN to check only the POTA award and leave all other custom awards untouched. If DX4WIN reports any errors, please let me know the details. I may need to tweak the rules a little in the reference number conversion. At some point in the future, probably in a month or so, I will release a custom award database with the last POTA reference numbers. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , https://ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] DX4WIN Custom Award database release 24.2 - 31 March 2024
The DX4WIN Custom Award database was updated on 31 March 2024. It contains 227 awards. This is a link to the release notes: https://ad1c.us/dx4win/awards/index.html#24.2 DX4WIN 9 users should use Help | Check for Updates from the main menu. Note that there may be a delay between this announcement and when the updated custom awards database is actually available. Users of older versions of DX4WIN should use the DX4WIN Data Updater: https://ad1c.us/dx4win/updater The ZIP file also contains a number of membership list files (plain-text files with a .list extension). These can be used to identify member calls in the DX Spots window. Please read the application note on Membership Lists for more information. These are the changes: 24.2 - 31 March 2024 [AGCW] Activity Group CW-DL (updated) [ALZS] All Bulgarian Saints (updated) [DCE1] Diploma Castillos de Espa�a 1.0 (2012-) (updated) [CWOP] CW Operators' Club (updated) [DEE] Diploma Ermitas de Espa�a Award (DEE) (updated) [DFCF] French Forts and Castles (DFCF) (updated) [DIG] Diplom Interessen Gruppe (updated) [SDOK] German Sonder-DOK (updated) [DME] Diploma Municipios de Espa�a (Towns of Spain Award) (updated) [DMVE] Diploma Monumentos y Vestigios de Espa�a (updated) [FIST] FISTS - Int'l Morse Preservation Society (updated) [FOC] First Class CW Operators' Club (updated) [LZTT] St. Teodosii Tyrnovski Award (2015-) (updated) [NAQR] North American QRP CW Club (updated) [POTA] Parks on the Air (updated) [SKCC] Straight Key Century Club (updated) [SOTA] Summits on the Air (updated) [USIA] United States Islands Award (updated) [WADA] Worked Antarctic Directory Award (updated) [WCA] World Castles Award (updated) [WFF] World Wide Flora Fauna (updated) Please let me know if there are any problems. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , https://ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] DX4WIN Custom Award database release 24.2 - 31 March 2024
The DX4WIN Custom Award database was updated on 31 March 2024. It contains 227 awards. This is a link to the release notes: https://ad1c.us/dx4win/awards/index.html#24.2 DX4WIN 9 users should use Help | Check for Updates from the main menu. Note that there may be a delay between this announcement and when the updated custom awards database is actually available. Users of older versions of DX4WIN should use the DX4WIN Data Updater: https://ad1c.us/dx4win/updater The ZIP file also contains a number of membership list files (plain-text files with a .list extension). These can be used to identify member calls in the DX Spots window. Please read the application note on Membership Lists for more information. These are the changes: 24.2 - 31 March 2024 [AGCW] Activity Group CW-DL (updated) [ALZS] All Bulgarian Saints (updated) [DCE1] Diploma Castillos de Espa�a 1.0 (2012-) (updated) [CWOP] CW Operators' Club (updated) [DEE] Diploma Ermitas de Espa�a Award (DEE) (updated) [DFCF] French Forts and Castles (DFCF) (updated) [DIG] Diplom Interessen Gruppe (updated) [SDOK] German Sonder-DOK (updated) [DME] Diploma Municipios de Espa�a (Towns of Spain Award) (updated) [DMVE] Diploma Monumentos y Vestigios de Espa�a (updated) [FIST] FISTS - Int'l Morse Preservation Society (updated) [FOC] First Class CW Operators' Club (updated) [LZTT] St. Teodosii Tyrnovski Award (2015-) (updated) [NAQR] North American QRP CW Club (updated) [POTA] Parks on the Air (updated) [SKCC] Straight Key Century Club (updated) [SOTA] Summits on the Air (updated) [USIA] United States Islands Award (updated) [WADA] Worked Antarctic Directory Award (updated) [WCA] World Castles Award (updated) [WFF] World Wide Flora Fauna (updated) Please let me know if there are any problems. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , https://ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
