I concur, Neal. This subset concept would make using all the crazy Canadian prefixes a piece of cake when sending logs to LoTW.
73 Al, VE1AL -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Dougherty Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 2:27 PM To: 'Neal Campbell'; 'Fred Handscombe'; 'DXBase List' Subject: Re: [Dxbase] New features I'm strongly in favour of having master logs and individual log files in each. For the original poster who has multiple calls, this is ideal. Each call gets a separate log, but it's all handled by one master file. It's also ideal for QSL managers. They'd typically have a master log for their own callsign(s), plus a master log for every person who they manage. If one of their clients goes on lots of DXpeditions each DXpedition by that person gets a sub-log under their master. In doing it this way, it may be possible to aggregate info from different sub-logs while a master log is open. By this I mean suppose my master is W2IRT.MDB, but it also includes my logs from C6 and VE3. Wouldn't it be nice if, when I work someone, to say "thanks for working me from the Bahamas in '06"? My other big desire on this topic is to allow logs to be opened and closed without having to close and re-open the program. ----------------------------------- Regards, Peter, W2IRT -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neal Campbell Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:13 PM To: Fred Handscombe; DXBase List Subject: Re: [Dxbase] New features Hi Fred and the list (I expanded distribution for this discussion!) Fred was asking about the possibility of not having discrete log files for each call he uses and wonders if it could be a feature to allow all of his logs to live within one file. I can already guess that your opinion will be "WE WANT BOTH WAYS!" but do you have an opinion on this. Do you like keeping the logs as separate files or would you rather see them as subsets of a "master log"? Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.dxbase.com www.abrohamnealsoftware.com www.sdrsystems.com (540) 242 0911 Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ DX Cluster: dxc.k3nc.com port 23 On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Fred Handscombe < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Neal > > As a longtime DXbase user I have been reading with interest > > When Jack called it a day I spent a weekend downloading and testing > other loggers and failed to find anything that excited me. I decided > to keep using DXB as it was and so I was delighted when your message came along. I > hope all those who suddenly said "I was about to update" will not have short > memories! > > To the point! > > I have a number of DXbase log files; I "live" in 2 countries and every > second year I also get a new call in West Africa which I use for two > years visits, plus a club and contest call and I also manage a couple > of Special events. > > I would like to have all my logs in one database, with a "key" that > tells which call I am logging from. Also to output ADIF by callsign > for LOTW and > Club Log > > I have lived with switching between log files for long enough and it > is not > that inconvenient, but this might be a "nice to have" feature? > > Good luck, you will never please everyone but please try!! > > 73 Fred > G4BWP/A65BD > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
