Interesting comments. Yes it is true there are two separate fields special 1 and special 2. But, within these fields there are up to ten alpha/numeric characters of your choosing allowed. So, it gives you hundreds of possible unique entries that you could use for whatever special tracking possibilities you want. You decide what special coding you want to use in these fields. For example, if a QSO has some special meaning for you such as Lighthouse, you could enter LH into one of the special fields for those QSOs. With this information stored in your QSO record, you could use the Award module to get some tracking on this.
You also have a field that allows for a simple checkbox type annotiation similar to the YL and QRP flags. This field provides for two user checkbox selections in case you just need a simple flag set for a QSO record. You also have the power of the selection wizard where you can extract a portion of your QSO database based upon filter criteria that you define. This extract can be used as the input for the Awards module. There is also the User Designed Report/list module where you have the capability to design your own reports and apply some formula logic. Perhaps this would let you produce whatever tracking you are interested in based on your use of the special fields to annotate QSOs of interest. So in my humble opinion, DXbase already can do a lot more than your comments suggest but of course it does require some knowledge about these capabilties that are in the software. But, with any software on planet, it's never perfect and there is always something that could be added. That's what the software upgrade process is all about with any product...hihi.... a never ending process but I don't agree that this means the authors don't care or don't understand. The trick is to develop those enhancements that will appeal to enough customers to make them interested in purchasing the upgrade in order to cover the costs of development that go into making an upgrade. Cheers, Courtney ----- Original Message ----- From: "K2SNJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DXBase List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Is anyone else interested in tracking Light Houses? > Yes Bill, I track LH, Castles, Spanish Is. and allot of other award > tracking. I have had to change to a different logging program as DXbase > would not support this tracking. Only will allow you to use the two > special > columns, but people like me I track more then 10 awards at the same time. > I > asked at Dayton about adding it to there next update and he just smiled at > me. So I don't see this feature anytime soon!. They fail to understand > that > after you have DXCC,WAS,WAC etc there are many others awards to track. Oh > well I will dry my eyes now and stop crying. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "DXBase List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 3:06 PM > Subject: [Dxbase] Is anyone else interested in tracking Light Houses? > > >> I'm hesitant to ask for features that have low appeal. >> Curious if anyone is tracking Lighthouses, Castles, etc.? >> I'm presently just adding them to the Notes column. >> >> such as >> VE LH170 >> US LH001 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> >> Bill H. in Chicagoland >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] >
