There is no doubt that club log has errors, and they are being worked on. But my DXbase has no known errors, if you keep your datbase up to date and watch what you log, there is not a problem. The only errors I get are operator errors, mainly where I start to log one station and change the call, the country column does not change and you have to keep an eye out for that, but otherwise there are no errors if your database is correct. When I upgrade DXbase I always keep a list of country / prefix etc totals so I know there are no changes to my totals after the update, if so I look them up and see what they are. When prefixs change or countries are added/deleted, change your data base and keep it up to date. Its the old garbage in garbage out .. and I sure do not trust other people to get the correct garbage in. 73 Merv K9FD/KH6 > I understand what Jack meant. I just uploaded my log again and am now going > through the errors. I have found 2 errors in Club Log that I will be > submitting when I finish going through them. I am only on page 4 of 9. Hi hi > Most of my errors seem to have happened in the conversion of DXBase V2 to > 2007. > > The fact is, though, you have to really look at the errors and if something > doesn't seem right, investigate it then send what you find to Club Log. With > the right "documentation" they will correct their database. > > Tim Herrick, KQ8M > North Coast Contesters > [email protected] > > AR-Cluster V6 kq8m.no-ip.org > User Ports: 23, 7373 with local skimmer, 7374 without local skimmer > Server Ports: V6 3607, V4 Active 3605, V4 Passive 3606 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jack > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 8:29 AM > To: 'Fred Handscombe'; 'Bill Parry'; 'D. Drake'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past > > Sorry, that was not my intention. My comment was solely to offer a caution > that users have mentioned that they found errors in clublog, thus I felt it > was legitimate to simply point out that you cannot blindly accept reported > errors as being gospel. It was in no way a blanket condemnation of anything > and I'm certainly not suggesting that it shouldn't be used although a > certain amount of caution seemed valid. > > If someone wants to delete my message, please do so. > > Regards > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Handscombe [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:02 AM > To: Jack; 'Bill Parry'; 'D. Drake'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past > > Jack > > That is a very broad and condemning statement with nothing to back it up! > Not even first hand experience from your comment? > > I load my logs to Clublog and find that DXBase makes plenty of errors in > "deciding" which country I have worked. I use the Clublog feedback to > improve my DXBase databases. To be factual, and not just make a wild claim, > most of the errors are in the Asiatic Russian prefixes. > > If I feel my DXBase is "right" I give feedback, in the correct forum, and > the accuracy of Clublog improves, or I find out I have made an error! Making > wild statements in the wrong forum helps no-one. > > Clublog's database is being updated almost daily, so something which > happened even a few months back is probably now corrected an it is well > worth deleting an old log and running it again. > > 73 > > Fred > G4BWP > > > >> Message Received: Mar 15 2012, 03:14 PM >> From: "Jack" >> To: "'Bill Parry'" , "'D. Drake'" , [email protected] >> Cc: >> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past >> >> Just throwing out a caution that others have used clublog and >> discovered that it's database has quite a few errors in it. So, if you >> are using it as the gospel, you're probably creating errors rather than >> > fixing anything. > >> Just saying.... >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Bill Parry >> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:06 AM >> To: 'D. Drake'; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past >> >> I did exactly that some time ago. I uploaded my log sometime back and >> Clublog "noticed" the errors (among others). I used the error file to >> make the corrections. My point was not to try to figure out if I had >> mistakes or a way to correct them but to mention that it is real easy >> to make mistakes like this! (Usually if a mistake is to be made I am >> one of the first to try it out! :-) >> >> Bill W5VX >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of D. Drake >> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:38 AM >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past >> >> Bill, >> >> Try running you log through Clublog. I think the error report will >> tell you which qso's (by call >> sign) have the wrong prefix. >> >> >> 73, >> >> Dale AA1QD >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: "Bill Parry" >> Subject: [Dxbase] Something stupid that I have done in the past >> To: >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> This is just an FYI regarding a mistake that I was making and it was >> messing up the prefix column in my records. >> >> Sometimes I would hear a station and enter it into DXBase. I do this >> to get the record of whether I have worked the station before and on which >> > bands. > >> If I accidentally entered the call wrong or copied the call wrong I >> would correct the call in the callsign column.. If you hit enter again >> on that line it will correct the country that is entered. >> This unfortunately does NOT fix the prefix column and leaves the >> original prefix entered. I suppose this is no big deal but it does >> screw up the prefix totals for the Prefix award. >> >> I am probably the only person that has done this but just in case >> there is another dummy out there you might want to be careful. >> >> >> Bill W5VX >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > >
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