ok.. so I'm a dummy. It does change the method. But, is there anyway to get it to do what I want it to do? i.e. Find QSLs for awards but not change the method, but mark them label Y.
-bmb Brian Boerner wrote: > I have some additional information and another question. It appears > that "Mark for QSL" is changing the QSL Method. Here's what I did: > > 1. Selected Labels->Mark for QSL > 2. Selected DXCC > Mixed: Direct > 25wks > Mode: Direct > 25wks > Band: Direct > 25wks > > I previously had NO DX QSOs which had a method of Direct unless they > have a USA Manager. So, after clicking OK it reported that there were > 268 QSOs modified. Then I ran a filter on !K prefix stations with > direct as the method, and sure enough they were all converted to > direct. Is this how this is suppose to work? I was under the > impression that this would only find QSLs and get them ready. What I > really wanted to happen was for it to find all the !Ks that I have USA > mgrs for, i.e. direct QSL, and then resend those. I didn't want it to > change Buro to Direct if I haven't heard from them in >25 weeks. I'll > just send another card if it's longer than a year. I'm assuming it's > reading the date field and saying, "Anything longer than 25 weeks, > convert to Direct and setup for QSL label." This also works the other > way around for WAS and WPX, etc. > > What I really want it to do is search the log for DXCC with the above > criteria and mark them as send again via buro, not send again but this > time direct. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm just having a bit of trouble > getting this to bend the way I want it. > > Please let me know if I'm not making any sense here. > > Cheers! > -Brian > 73 de W2SUQ/1 > > > Brian Boerner wrote: > >> Hi Everyone. It appears my QSLVIA is all messed. I believe that my >> import from DXBASE didn't work very well. As you know, DXBASE doesn't >> have an export to ADIF utility built in, so I had to use a third >> party app to get the job done. After some editing to force the file >> to conform to the spec, it looked OK to me. However, my QSLVIA is >> pretty messed up and I'm looking for some suggestions on how to fix a >> large number of QSOs easily. >> >> Example 1: >> Most of my US stations have the QSL Method marked for the Buro. I >> obviously want K stations to go direct. I can filter on the K prefix >> and Buro method, is it possible to now switch all of these over to >> direct? I looked at the Change QSL Routing, but it doesn't appear to >> do what I want. It wants to work the other way around. >> >> Example 2: >> Many of my non K prefix QSOs appear to have direct as the default >> method. Being cheap, I would prefer to give the Buro a shot first. >> Obviously some QSOs I'll mail a card for with a SASE but that's >> really only for DXpeditions, etc. I can handle those on a case by >> case basis, or if a year or so goes by. >> >> So far, the only way I've been able to get this to work is to just >> apply the filter and evaluate on a QSO by QSO basis. As you can >> imagine, this is quite a tedious task and very time consuming. Any >> help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> On a side note, I don't have a printer hooked up to my station >> computer, is it possible to just transfer the log to another machine >> and print them from there, or do I also need to transfer additional >> files? >> >> Thank You. >> >> -Brian >> 73 de W2SUQ/1 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dx4win mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win >
