As the QSL manager for the NK7U contest station I maintain a DX4WIN log of over 130,00 QSO's. I keep a copy of the log and DX4WIN at my QTH and NK7U does as well at his. Since the last time we sync'd the log file up NK7U and I have both added QSOs to the log as well as added QSL confirmations for past QSO's -- and these changes are totally different. So, now we we have two copies of the log that are different in both QSO's and and QSL confirmations.
My question is how can I get these two logs sync'd back up into one master log? We are using 5.03. Getting the new QSO's sync'd up is easy. Just merge one log into the other "Ignoring Duplicate QSOs". The problem is with the QSL confirmations. If I copy one log into the other with "Duplicate QSO replaces existing one" the QSL confirmations in the log being merged into will be "erased" since when the duplicate QSO replaces the existing one it does not have the QSL Confirmation. Yes, we could merge the new QSO's and go back in and update the QSL's by hand in the merged log, but we are talking about 500 QSL's that would need to be re-entered. Anyone got any ideas? The notes to Version 6.03 describe the following functionality: "Import (merge) can use imported QSO for confirmation only (we can set confirmed or upload confirmed". From the description I am not sure if this is solves the problem, but it looks hopefull. Does anyone have any experience with this function? If it does I would gladly pay to upgrade to 6.03. Or, does anyone know the DX4WIN file format? I might be able to write a separate merge program. Thanks for your advice and assistance. K7ZO/Scott
