Gary, I just looked at the wording in the HELP file.. Jack says:
"At program startup, the software compares the current month based on your system clock and checks your database for any events entered that are scheduled for the current month." This tells me that Jack is dealing with a Calendar Year (current year only) .. Once January 2008 rools around, you should be able to plug-in those Dec 2008 dates and all will be ok. 73 Joe wa6axe Gary Senesac AL9A wrote: > I'm running DXBase 2006 and have recently noticed some peculiar > behavior. Under Tools/Options/Special Events I have listed various > contests for the coming year that I want to be reminded of when I start > DXB. Since entering these dates earlier this month I have noticed the > following when starting DXB. The Special Event reminder screen comes up > and shows a special event on 12-05-2008 for the ARRL 160M Contest (CW), > then it shows 12-13-2008 for the ARRL 10M Contest. Finally it shows > 12-29-2007 for the Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge. > > Why is DXB showing me events for December of 2008? The only one that > should currently be showing is the Stew Perry contest this weekend. It > appears as though DXB is showing events in the proper date order for the > current month, but ignores the YEAR! Has anyone else noticed this? > Does DXB 2007 behave in a similar manner? If so, I think this is a bug > that should be fixed when DXB 200? is released. > > 73, > Gary AL9A > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] Fri Dec 28 20:19:26 2007 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Senesac AL9A) Date: Fri Dec 28 20:20:45 2007 Subject: [Dxbase] Special Event dates References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joe, Thanks for the Help lookup, but it seems to me if Jack's algorithm is checking the system clock for the current month it should also check for current year. Dec. of 2008 ain't the current month! I suspect you're correct about things righting themselves as soon as Jan. rolls into the system clock. Thanks again. 73, Gary AL9A ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Glockner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gary Senesac AL9A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "DXbase Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: December 28, 2007 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Special Event dates > Gary, > > I just looked at the wording in the HELP file.. Jack > says: > > "At program startup, the software compares the current month based on your > system clock and checks your database for any events entered that are > scheduled for the current month." > > This tells me that Jack is dealing with a Calendar Year > (current year only) .. > > Once January 2008 rools around, you should be able to > plug-in those Dec 2008 dates and all will be ok. > > 73 Joe wa6axe > > > Gary Senesac AL9A wrote: > >> I'm running DXBase 2006 and have recently noticed some peculiar behavior. >> Under Tools/Options/Special Events I have listed various contests for the >> coming year that I want to be reminded of when I start DXB. Since >> entering these dates earlier this month I have noticed the following when >> starting DXB. The Special Event reminder screen comes up and shows a >> special event on 12-05-2008 for the ARRL 160M Contest (CW), then it shows >> 12-13-2008 for the ARRL 10M Contest. Finally it shows 12-29-2007 for the >> Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge. >> >> Why is DXB showing me events for December of 2008? The only one that >> should currently be showing is the Stew Perry contest this weekend. It >> appears as though DXB is showing events in the proper date order for the >> current month, but ignores the YEAR! Has anyone else noticed this? Does >> DXB 2007 behave in a similar manner? If so, I think this is a bug that >> should be fixed when DXB 200? is released. >> >> 73, >> Gary AL9A >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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] Sun Dec 30 09:17:40 2007 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Anderson, K4SV) Date: Sun Dec 30 09:19:07 2007 Subject: [Dxbase] DXBase Reconstruction Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi All, Had to strip and redo my computer but was able to save all the files before. I have reloaded DXbase and my log but all my Styles are back to default. What is the proceedure to restore my styles from the files that were in the DXbase directory? What files do I need to move? Thanks in advance, Dave Anderson, K4SV Tryon, NC 828 777-5088 www.K4SV.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 30 11:24:07 2007 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Dougherty) Date: Sun Dec 30 11:25:37 2007 Subject: [Dxbase] RTTY spot problem Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, I'm still experiencing an ongoing problem with un-needed RTTY spots showing up as needed, and needed ones showing up as un-needed. For example, I've had Angola (D2) confirmed on RTTY since 2004, and valid/accepted for DXCC. Should be cut-and-dried, yet I'm still seeing cluster spots for D2NX on RTTY coming through as needed. Conversely, I almost missed the E4 on RTTY because it didn't show up as needed and it stayed greyed out, despite the fact I had never worked it on RTTY, and E4 has never been confirmed for me, period. In Band-Plan Mapping I have 14070-14072 set for PSK-31 and 14072-14099 set for RTTY. All the RTTY spots for both the D2 and E4 stations mentioned above were in the typical 14083-14088 range, too, so that shouldn't be an issue. Any idea what's happening here? Cheers, Peter, W2IRT
