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Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Bill Parry <[email protected]> wrote: > After using DXBase all these many years, I knew that there was an issue > that > affected my logging that was my fault but still created a problem. As I was > operating I would type in the call of a station and hit tab to complete the > entry. If I found out that I had miscopied or mistyped the call I would put > the cursor in the call area and correct the call. This is fine except it > leaves all the rest of the information incorrect, including the country, > and > zones. (I know, I know, I should hit the ESC key and reenter but if you're > in a hurry this takes time and I am absent minded. I had caught myself > doing > this from time to time and wondered in the back of my mind, how often this > problem had occurred. Given the fact that I had 60K+ QSOs there was no real > convenient way to figure it out. > > Yesterday, while perusing my "Daily DX" issue I noticed that Bernie > mentioned a cool website called "Club Log": > > http://www.clublog.org/index.php > > I decided to upload my log to this site and see what it had to offer. It is > real interesting and seems like something that should be done with LOTW! > > In any case after uploading the file I got back a potential error file from > the site, identifying the possible errors between callsigns and country. I > was horrified to find out there were a lot! Apparently the site is smart > and > identifies particular stations for particular countries. I found a small > number of calls that 'I' had specifically identified incorrectly. I double > checked against QRZ.COM and found they had done an excellent job of > identifying callsigns. > > I was thinking that something like this would sure be an asset to DXBase. > Maybe DXBase could log onto a website and the program could error check > your > log to ferret out errors and identify ones that aren't obvious like TO3X. > (For example I had R1ANF identified as VP8 in some cases and KC4 in > others.) > > I guess that my purpose in sending this message is to say that it would be > nice to have DXBase identify the country/zones based on current call in the > callsign in the call area and not the "first" call that was inputted. I > realize that this would require a different type of programming (and I know > nothing about how this is done). > > I am currently going through my log and correcting the errors. A lot of > errors can creep into a log in 30 years. I wonder if it is going to have > any > impact on my band/country totals. > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
