Jack, Thanks for your reply.
OK, "fill CDROM data" functionality is not available on the short cut menu. Sorry I'm a little slow on the uptake. It sounds like that will be in the next release. I hope that autofill the blank fields in all record from the CD ROM will be implimented. What I am really wanting is the county field entered into the QSO records. I found a WEB page that will give you the county based on the ZIP code. Because zip codes are coded into the FCC data base and in the CD ROMs and the county isn't neccessarily, there might be a valuable tool if you could extract the zip code from the address tables and add that field into the QSO record. The next step would be to access the county lookup WEB page using the zip code like you do with QRZ and the call sign. Is there a way to select a QSO in the event that I have not worked the county before? A custom filter or something like that? I want to start QSLing only in the event I haven't worked the county. Actually what I want is to QSL if I haven't received a card from the HAM and ( its been over 6 months since I sent him a card or I haven't sent him a card) and I haven't worked the county. How about that as a productive database search? Jack, I'm suprised to hear that 30% of the information in the CD ROMs is bad. I'm using Bucks HAM Call and I have been mailing QSL cards using the address data directly. Out of about 1000 cards that I have sent domestically using that information I have only received 4 cards back from the USPS for "bad address." Also, when you say I should review that information, review it against what? When I looked up the call signs of the returned QSL cards on QRZ it showed the same addresses. So again even if I had reviewed the addresses against QRZ I still would have had the same return percentage. That is only about a half of a percent anyway. What calculations are you using to get 30%? I think that 400 Qs on 160M from the Pacific NW in two nights is a lot. I got a WAS in that 400 QSOs! So humor me please. Thanks, Bob AC7PN Bob, Sorry that you seem to be looking for functionality that was never implemented in this version of DXbase. Shortcuts are assigned for main menu items but not for the pop up menus. 400 Qs is really not very many, but maybe you ought to wait for our next release where we plan to implement the sort of functionality you seem to want. But be forewarned that our testing shows that about 30 percent of what comes off the address CDs is outdated and just plain incorrect. So lest you believe that a third-party database is somehow the "cats meow" and you fill up your log fields with what it gives you, be forewarned you may find you do yourself more harm than good. It's our experience that you really want to review what gets offered by the CD data before you keep it. Cheers, Jack
