If you are working for 5 band DXCC, try a different approach. Work every spot you see that is priority 1,2, or 3. Turn off the modes for DXCC that you are not interested in such as digital modes and cw. Priority 1 is a new country that has never been worked before on any band, so you need all of those. Priority 2 is a new Mode, and for most of us that is a lot higher than a new band country, so you normally need all of those unless you do not work a particular mode, which you can turn off in preferences.
Be sure that the DXCC tab in preferences is set for the modes, bands, and separate band awards that you wish to go for. The worked cutoff and mailed cutoff can be temporarily set to 20,000 to be sure that is not affecting the spots you want. There is also a button in preferences called DX alerts that affects the spots that you want. 5 Band DXCC normally comes to those that work and confirm countries routinely on the easy bands, then you spend all of your time counting the 40 and 80 meter confirmations, then eventually 12, 17, 30, and 160 meter bands. DX4WIN makes the record keeping effortless, though. With LOTW, the time to get the award should be much faster, but the cost is still high. p.s. you can change the color scheme of the spots, but I would do that only as a last resort. Setting preferences correctly is a much better way. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stan Staten Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:28 PM To: DX4WIN Subject: [Dx4win] Confused About Spot Prioritization I guess I really don't know how to make the spot prioritization work for me. I have the following problems:
