I second your posting. 73 DX de PY2YP - Cesar www.py2yp.ws ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:08 PM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Pre 1975 CW DXCC confirmations
| | >I started this thread so I'll chime in a bit more. It seems to me that | >all the responders so far (including Rapidan thru some private emails) | >have agreed that processing pre 1975 CW confirmations is a problem with | >DX4WIN. Some suggestions have been offered to circumvent the problem | >but all suggestions have required some manual manipulation either with | >the data itself or the DXCC reports or both. Since this is a known | >deficiency might it be better to develop some ways to change the DX4WIN | >internals such that no manipulation is necessary? | | I've used DX4WIN for several years as my sole general logging program and | still think it's the best of the lot. But... it's maddening that doing a | DXCC CW report is guaranteed to give erroneous results if your log has any | CW QSOs prior to 1975. (My log has hundreds of them dating back to 1964.) | It's never been clear to me why a program that can instantly retrieve IOTA | designations from an external file can't use a similar technique to filter | for DXCC award purposes. Shortly after I began using Version 4, I recall | Steve replying to my query about why it couldn't pick up DXCC-eligible CW | contacts to the effect "we can't possibly know the cutoff date for all | awards." I would submit that DXCC CW is popular enough that an exception | should be made for at least this one case. | | I handle picking up DXCC CW stats by putting all my post-1975 CW contacts | in a group I call "CW Eligible" and filter for this group prior to | generating CW stats. It's a clumsy workaround, but it does get the job | done. This functionality really should be built into the code. I hope we | can get enough users to clamor for this long-overdue feature that it will | be built into succeeding versions. | | | 73... | Randy, W8FN | | | _______________________________________________ | Dx4win mailing list | [email protected] | http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win | | |
