After posting the note below, I had a few further thoughts that I felt I should add. First, when I name groups I choose the name based on how I want it to appear on my QSL label when I have "print group names" enabled. For instance, the CQ WW group is actually named "CQ WW Contest".
Second, this method gives you great flexibility in searching for contest info. For example, you can specify just "CQ WW Contest" for the group, and leave date and mode blank to list (and count) all CQ WW contacts in your log. By adding mode in to the search you can find out how many CQ WW CW QSOs you have made, etc. Or you can specify a date range, e.g. 01/01/2008 to 12/31/2008 to find out how many QSOs you made in all sections of the CQ WPX last year. And so on... I hope that this gives you some good ideas about use of groups in DX4Win. 73, Craig, KØCF -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of K0CF Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 8:33 PM To: 'Jim Reisert AD1C'; 'DX4WIN POSTINGS' Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LOTW, DX4WIN and contest logs I would go one farther than Jim has suggested. Good data base design principles require that you do not define a field to filter a database where other fields can already do the task. Hence, I only define groups for "CQ WW", "CQ WPX", "ARRL DX", etc., since you can filter for the section (CW, SSB or RTTY) in the mode field and the year of the contest in the date field. Doing it this way I have only 18 groups defined that cover all the contests I have ever worked, and I am in NO danger of ever running out of group numbers. Note that the group will not always be able to ignore the mode, since some contests like the Makrothen are RTTY only. But most often there is no need to reference the mode in the group definition. 73, Craig, KØCF -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 5:52 PM To: DX4WIN POSTINGS Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LOTW, DX4WIN and contest logs On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Bill AC0W <[email protected]> wrote: > Group numbers work good as long as you have fewer than 254 contests to > enter. Once you exceed that you need to find some other way of > differentiating the different contest groups. There is no need to assign a unique group # to each contest. I have a group number for ARRL DX CW, a different group number for CQ WPX RTTY, etc. You can separate contest logs base on the group number AND date. You'll need many fewer groups this way. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <[email protected]>, http://www.ad1c.us ______________________________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
