Re Frequency. It's one of the things he's pretty stubborn about... That = and no structure for Notes... Ie name and qth...
Because of that and the weak support for LOTW I finally gave up and = bought another product. For the time being, I'm still keeping DX4Win current in = the hopes Paul will finally come around... But I'm starting to doubt it ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoran Brlecic > Sent: February 23, 2004 23:22 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] setting QSL manager to "blank" >=20 >=20 > Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >=20 > >1. The data is NOT stored in the log, it is stored in the=20 > country file, > > much like the prefix data. Therefore, there is no way=20 > to permanently > > associate a QSL manager with a particular QSO. This=20 > means you can not > > assign a QSL manager on a QSO-by-QSO basis. > > > This is really no big deal. If you want to change the old manager=20 > assignment to "none", there is a way to fake it: simply type=20 > in a period=20 > (.) in the manager field. The assignment will change and the QSL card=20 > printout will show a dot. Good enough. >=20 > >2. Once a station has a manager, all subsequent QSOs with that same > > station will also inherit the most recent manager. There is no > > expiration date for managers, like there is for DX prefixes. > > Thus, there is no way to set a manager to "NONE" except to delete > > the manager record completely, which invalidates all QSOs, even > > those that *do* use the manager. > > > The only drawback to the separate manager db system, as far as I can=20 > see, is when a station has two or more managers at the same=20 > time, like=20 > K1B had, for example (one for CW and one for SSB). Even then,=20 > this will=20 > only affect the log database if the QSOs are made on the same day. If=20 > they're not (CW QSOs on one date and SSB QSOs on another),=20 > the system=20 > handles it OK. This happens so rarely that I don't find it a=20 > big enough=20 > reason to mess with the log database structure. >=20 > >[snip] In summary, the way the QSL manager field works is a=20 > limitation=20 > >of DX4WIN. > >Paul will have to change this to support the features people want. > > =20 > > > And now for my usual mantra: I would really like to see the actual=20 > frequency entry instead of just the band. I figure if I=20 > repeat it enough=20 > times, Paul will do it just to shut me up. >=20 >=20 > 73 ... WA7AA >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win >=20
