Dennis One quick question. In your DXBase log. Are all your qso's with the same call sign?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis McAlpine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Joseph Glockner'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Cc: "'FireBrick'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:27 PM Subject: RE: [Dxbase] The Curious Case of the Missing QSOs > Joe, > > I'm afraid you have hit on the answer - the REF # is irrelevant and is > not the number of QSOs. We have been trying to make something out of it > that it is not. It would be nice to have a way to tell, even if just > for purient interest alone, how many real QSOs are in one's log. But, > maybe the answer is to put all of the QQSOs in LoTW and it will tell you > the correct number. > > 73, > > Dennis, K2SX > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Glockner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 8:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Dennis McAlpine; 'FireBrick' > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] The Curious Case of the Missing QSOs > > > Dennis and all: > > After playing around with the 2005 logbook of my mdb file.. > I have seen the following conclusions with regards to the REF# > column ... > > (1) 1st scenario --If I make a new entry - it will pickup the > "next # up" in sequence in the Ref# column ... IF I "delete" > THAT entry and make a new entry -- the Ref # used in my previously > deleted entry is NOT REUSED -- but, I see the "next # up -- > the next # up from the # used in my deleted entry ... > > (2) 2nd scenario -- IF I "never had done the 1st scenario" -- > and just simply made a NEW entry -- it will pickup the "next # up" > in the Ref # column ... Now - IF I "delete" this entry -- > > and here is the BIG difference --- > > and NOW simply close out DXbase - and immediately RUN the Access > Maintainer program - which removes all of the deleted entries > (junk area) ---- > > and NOW bring DXbase back open and this time make a new entry > and the "next # up" in the Ref column will be the "next up > from the 'original entry' ... > > > So - bottom line -- the REF # column is only for DXbase > internal use -- and --- to make sure that your REF #'s stay > one-up after each other -- if you make entries and delete > entries -- each time- if you use the access maintainer program > or some such compacting program - your ref#s will be in > sequence.. > > The above is ONLY to be FYI -- since Ref # column is not used > at all by the DXbase user .. simply do not try to make something > from it.. > > 73 Joe wa6axe > > Dennis McAlpine wrote: >> I went back and checked all 24 of the submissions that I made which >> includes one large file which inadvertently got sent five times. Each >> of the submissions said they had been "successfully processed", >> "entered" with "no errors encountered." The total unduplicated of all >> QSOs submitted was indeed 109K as LoTW said. >> >> I did receive a response that said that DXBase keeps a record number >> even though a QSO might be deleted. I have been using DXBase since >> DXB97 so I have had a number of deletions and did have one period when >> there were a bunch of duplicates that I had to delete. I would be >> surprised if there were 20K deletions but maybe that is possible. I >> haven't checked yet to see if there is a way of counting the actual > QSOs >> in the database rather than the number of records. So far, this seems >> to be the most likely answer to the case of the missing QSOs. >> >> Tnx to all for the input. >> >> 73, >> >> Dennis, K2SX >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: FireBrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:51 PM >> To: Dennis McAlpine >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] The Curious Case of the Missing QSOs >> >> >> During the 'signing process' were there any 'error reports'. >> >> Then go to the LoTW page, select 'Your Account', 'Your Activity', and >> click on the >> 'Result'. >> >> If any submissions were rejected due to duplicates, or other reasons, > it >> should be noted >> there. >> >> >> Let us know what you find please. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dennis McAlpine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:39 AM >> Subject: [Dxbase] The Curious Case of the Missing QSOs >> >> >> >>>I just finished uploading all but about 1000 of my DXBase 2005 QSOs >> >> into >> >>>LoTW. According to DXBase, I have 133,000 records. But, according to >>>LoTW I only have 109K in their files. I went back to DXBase and did a >>>select wizard on all QSOs not submitted to LoTW and that showed about >> >> 5 >> >>>that had not been sent out (other than the 1000 that I know about) so >>>this would seem to indicate that all 133K QSOs have been uploaded. >>>Checked the submissions on record at LoTW and it showed that I had >> >> sent >> >>>all of the QSOs. So somewhere 33K QSOs seem to have disappeared. >> >> Does >> >>>anyone have any ideas where they went? Any thoughts on differences in >>>counting techniques? >>> >>>73, >>>Dennis, K2SX >>> >>>______________________________________________________________ >>>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] >> > >
