Jack, Thanks for the reply. I'm going to print this email and take it with me and see what *my* field checker has to say about it [g].
Regards, Wes At 22:20 8/13/2004 -0400, Jack wrote: >Wes, > >We agree with your assessment, but..... some time ago we did some things on >our own that we felt made the application easier to use. We had a couple >customers get chastized by some field checker complaining that we didn't >follow the "letter" of the rule. So, although what you say makes perfect >sense to us, until and unless the ARRL specifies this in their written >instructions, we are forced to abide strictly by what their rules state. >That is, the sorting is by band and mode with no deviations except to place >multiple QSO cards at the end of the list ( but still abiding by their rules >for sorting ). > >Regards, >Jack > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Wes (N7WS) and Linda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 7:59 AM >Subject: [Dxbase] DXCC QSL Sorting > > >> I'm putting together a DXCC application for field checking. I won't >> elaborate on the problems I'm having with non-repeatiblity in the >selection >> process but I do note one problem that probably could be easily fixed. >> >> While giving cards with multiple QSOs a QSL number does put them on the >> bottom of the list, it doesn't group the QSOs for a given call together, >> which I believe is the idea. Instead with multiple cards with multiple >> QSOs, it sorts them by band and mode so that they are spread out all over >> the place. >> >> I'm not too sure the field checker is going to be happy about this. >> Certainly there is no way to sort the cards to satisfy this list order. I >> think I'll have to resort to filling out the list by hand, which, >> considering the other problems, might have been quicker in the first >place. >> >> Wes >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Aug 14 02:29:17 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wes (N7WS) and Linda) Date: Fri Aug 13 22:33:18 2004 Subject: [Dxbase] Wrong count ? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 17:36 8/13/2004 -0400, Al Bailey wrote: >I have a count on LOTW of 339 but in DXBase I have a count of 334 which >means I need to find the 5 Q's in question. Since there are only 335 on the current list, you obviously have some deleted countries. Do you have your options set to include deleted countries in stats? > >Is there a simple way ? > > I know I can export ALL my data from LOTW and import it into DXB but I >really don't want to overwrite any existing data. I usually go look at LOTW >and manually do the confirmation but somehow forgot 5 or something and now >my count is off. :( :( :( Maybe import to an empty database and use some of the various reports to find differences.
