[Dx4win] DX4WIN QSL Manager Functionality
I am sending this separate from my previous QRZ XML post as I don't want the two confused. This has nothing to do with XML functionality. I have always (since D4W v2.1) wanted more QSL functionality. Let me give a real-world example: In 1998 I sent a QSL to ER4DX via the W5FE QSL service. In 1999 I sent another QSL via the buro. In 2003 I sent another QSL via the buro and uploaded the data to LOTW. In 2005 I sent a QSL direct to his QSL manager with SAE, IRC and $2. My mail bounced. I sent another QSL direct to his QSL manager via a different mailing address with SAE, IRC and $2. No joy. In 2007 I sent a QSL direct to ER4DX with SAE, IRC and $2. In 2008 I sent another QSL direct to a different mailing address with SAE, IRC and $2. In 2009 I sent another QSL direct via Registered Mail with SAE, IRC and $2. In 2010 I received multiple responses via direct and the buro. In 2011 I received a LOTW confirmation. The above dates and QSL methods are approximations from memory. I would dearly love to be able to push a virtual button and have D4W print out a searchable summary of each QSL attempt to ER4DX with dates, methods, addresses, enclosures and results. The previous release (8.x) was heavily oriented toward contesting. I would love to see 9.x be the QSL manager I have always wanted. Thanks for the consideration. Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC d...@k7vc.com __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] So How about it Paul? QRZ.com XML lookup??
In addition to having a rote look-up, also have an option where all empty DX4WIN QSL fields can be filled in with QRZ data on an individual or group basis. And have another option to have existing QSL fields compared with QRZ data to flag any differences, again on a individual or group basis. This would be similar to having LOTW confirmation data used to populate/confirm existing QSL fields (or flag them when they don't match). A known problem with all of this is that some QRZ data is dependent on input from the individual ham. This problem also exists with LOTW confirmations where some people don't know the difference between their own IARU and CQ zone numbers, so they enter the wrong number when they sign their confirmation certificates. There would obviously be a lot of garbage data that D4W couldn't be expected to identify--let alone correct--but the more QSL functionality you can provide, the easier my job is confirm thousands of counties, states and DXCC entities. Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC d...@k7vc.com On 6/23/2011 10:23 AM, Bill Barr, N4NX wrote: > Paul, > > So what say you? Yea or Nay or ? > > 73 > Bill N4NX > __ > DX4WIN mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Where (what field) do you specify the city name for U.S. QSOs?
WOW! That works out to about $1,000 a year in postage, cards and envelopes, not to mention the work of filling out and mailing an average of six QSL cards every day. I think I need a QSL manager!! :) Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC d...@k7vc.com On 6/23/2011 9:36 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > > It's work, but far from impossible to work 2000 counties in a year. __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] DX4WIN and the FLEX-5000C SDR
I am ordering a Flex Radio 5000C SDR. Is there anyone that is useing the same thing? Any problems / quirks useing this "radio" with DX4WIN? thank you in advance Dave, KA3QYK __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] QRZ.com XML Lookup in DX4WIN
Ditto! Brad - N8SNM - Original Message - From: Jim Reisert AD1C To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] QRZ.com XML Lookup in DX4WIN I would love a one-button feature to print a QSL label and a mailing label for the current QSO, using my Dymo label printer. One shortcoming DX4WIN has today is that you will NOT get a mailing label if the "QSL Manager" field is not filled in. This means if you want to send direct QSLs to fixed stations (say, all the new USA prefixes you worked in the last WPX contest), there is no easy way to print a batch of QSO and QSL labels (say on Avery 5160 30 labels per sheet) and have all the address labels interleaved with the QSO labels, so you can sit at a card table (no computer access) with a stack of blank QSLs, envelopes, stamps and the printed labels and go to town. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1513/3721 - Release Date: 06/23/11 __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] QRZ.com XML Lookup in DX4WIN
I would love a one-button feature to print a QSL label and a mailing label for the current QSO, using my Dymo label printer. One shortcoming DX4WIN has today is that you will NOT get a mailing label if the "QSL Manager" field is not filled in. This means if you want to send direct QSLs to fixed stations (say, all the new USA prefixes you worked in the last WPX contest), there is no easy way to print a batch of QSO and QSL labels (say on Avery 5160 30 labels per sheet) and have all the address labels interleaved with the QSO labels, so you can sit at a card table (no computer access) with a stack of blank QSLs, envelopes, stamps and the printed labels and go to town. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] I need some help
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Manuel de Oliveira (CU3BL) wrote: > I need some help with the following: > I work with DX4WIN 8.05 > I have never updated the program, in order to be totally updated, what should > I do? http://dx4win.ad1c.us/updater/ -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] I need some help
Greetings: I need some help with the following: I work with DX4WIN 8.05 I have never updated the program, in order to be totally updated, what should I do? Thanks 73 CU3BL Manuel __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] So How about it Paul? QRZ.com XML lookup??
Paul, So what say you? Yea or Nay or ? 73 Bill N4NX __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Where (what field) do you specify the city name for U.S. QSOs?
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Lee Hallin wrote: > Do you put the city name in the QTH field (Ex. Los Angeles) .. while also > populating the STATE field with the state abbreviation? > > Do you put the city name in the QTH field along with the state (Ex. Los > Angeles,CA)? > > If you aren't using DX4WIN v8.??, what field, and what form/convention, do > you put the city name in? > > I'm taking a stab at County Hunting and don't want to have to go through my > log and look up each county, by "hand", using the city name and state in the > QSO. > > I'm thinking of writing a program that would look at an ADIF file and update > the CNTY field. For this reason, I was wanting to know of any conventions > that might already be in use. Hi Lee, DX4WIN has always had state and county fields. The QTH field was added in 8.0x. Before that, if you asked 100 different users, 99 of them would have done it a different way, but most of them put the QTH in the "Notes for this Call" field. There is a Multiple QSO operation in 8.0x which can move the QTH from the Notes field to the QTH field (assuming you used a standard way of separating name/QTH in that field). Sometime around 2000, I got interested in county hunting also. I'm embarrassed to admit that I believe I have all 3077 confirmations, but I have never submitted the paperwork to get a USACA #. I'm down to a dozen or so to confirm CW-only, and may wait to finish that one before submitting (if anyone's willing to drive around Kentucky for me) Having said all that, the easiest way to get started is to enter the county only from the QSLs you have on hand. There are essentially four levels of difficulty: the easiest counties (like Cook, IL and Fulton, GA); the hardest counties (like San Juan, WA, Kalawao, HI and Nantucket, MA), the ones that are on in most state QSO parties and are often run on the CH nets (easy), and the last (hard) group which are the ones that are infrequently run (like Loving, TX, or Grant/Hooker, NE). Chances are you have confirmations from the easiest group already. The next group, you'll work many of them even with only a couple years of effort, either on the CH nets, or by operating the state and county QSO parties. The third (hard) group requires more vigilance, and the last (hardest) group you must work them when they are on. The reason I said all this is that if you bother to look up the cities from your QSOs, chances are they'll be in the easiest two groups, not the hardest two groups. IMHO, the level of effort is not worth it because it takes less time to work them again than you would spend looking up the data. You may find a few in the harder group, but again, you're going to have to look up a LOT of cities just to get a dozen or so counties out of them. There are ZIP code to county databases out there, however, counties do not necessarily follow ZIP code boundaries. If you are going to look up the counties using QRZ.COM, people change calls (and move), so a QSO you had in 1998 might not be the same station/QTH listed on QRZ.COM today. So I wish you luck, but the easiest way is to just get on the air and work the state and county QSO parties, and the CH net. It's work, but far from impossible to work 2000 counties in a year. Plus, you'll definitively know which counties you worked, and it's kind of addictive! 73 - Jim AD1C p.s. if you decide to use MRCs (mobile reply cards), don't put more than one state on a card (even if you work a mobile operator in multiple states). I learned this way too late, and it will make it harder for the two volunteers to check all my confirmations (it's becomes a sorting issue). -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Trouble With Packet window to DX Spots
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:20 AM, N4DW - Dave wrote: > Skip, your closing remark rang a bell here. I've been critically watching > the "Sorted By Time" spots lately, having noted that some are missing. > > When I looked at the setting mentioned, the "|" was missing here also. > > To be exact, it was missing twice as the first line and last line were > almost identical with the exception that the last line had a " *" appended. > > DX DE|r:|f|c|q|tZ > DX DE|r:|f|c|q|tZ * > > ??? > I've changed them both to DX|DE, but now question if both are necessary? > ??? Both lines may be necessary. The second line allows information after the GMT time of the incoming spot, like spotter's state, grid or DXCC entity. I'm not sure which cluster software can do this, usually it's at the end of the comment field (before GMT) but I recall there are instances where it comes after. I believe the '|' characters are needed because DX4WIN uses regular expressions to parse the incoming spots. For the record, my spotting formats are as follows: [Packet2] Packet_pat1=DX|DE|r:|f|c|q|tZ Packet_pat2=f|c|d|tZ|q| Packet_pat3=r|f|c|q| Packet_pat4=DX|c|f|q Packet_pat5=DX DE|r:|f|c|q|tZ * I believe these are the default patterns, and have been propagated forward through writing/merging my preferences from earlier versions. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Trouble With Packet window to DX Spots
Hi All, Skip, your closing remark rang a bell here. I've been critically watching the "Sorted By Time" spots lately, having noted that some are missing. When I looked at the setting mentioned, the "|" was missing here also. To be exact, it was missing twice as the first line and last line were almost identical with the exception that the last line had a " *" appended. DX DE|r:|f|c|q|tZ DX DE|r:|f|c|q|tZ * ??? I've changed them both to DX|DE, but now question if both are necessary? ??? For the record, I'm running 8.04 and have been for what seems like forever. 73, Dave N4DW Subject: [Dx4win] Fw: Trouble With Packet window to DX Spots Hello All, Thanks to Jim AD1C, he found a problem with my setting in the Packet 2 settings window with the "DX DE" spots. A "|" was missing between DX DE. Not sure how that happened as I did not change any preferences. Thanks to those of you who made suggestions. Skip KE9L Hello All, I am having trouble getting DX Spots from the Packet Window to come up on the DX spots sorted by Time window. This just started recently. The only way I have been able to that is to use sh/dx on the command line of the Packet window. I am sure I have some setting wrong some where. Thanks...Skip KE9L __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Where (what field) do you specify the city name for U.S. QSOs?
With a State field, County field, Grid field and Country field, I have been putting the city in the QTH field. I couldn't think of anything else to put there!!! Be it Chicago, Prague, Los Angeles... 73, Art W6KY . From: Lee Hallin To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thu, June 23, 2011 12:52:56 AM Subject: [Dx4win] Where (what field) do you specify the city name for U.S. QSOs? Do you put the city name in the QTH field (Ex. Los Angeles) .. while also populating the STATE field with the state abbreviation? Do you put the city name in the QTH field along with the state (Ex. Los Angeles,CA)? If you aren't using DX4WIN v8.??, what field, and what form/convention, do you put the city name in? I'm taking a stab at County Hunting and don't want to have to go through my log and look up each county, by "hand", using the city name and state in the QSO. I'm thinking of writing a program that would look at an ADIF file and update the CNTY field. For this reason, I was wanting to know of any conventions that might already be in use. Does anyone else have interest in using such a program, if I write it? Thanks, Lee N7NU __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] Where (what field) do you specify the city name for U.S. QSOs?
Do you put the city name in the QTH field (Ex. Los Angeles) .. while also populating the STATE field with the state abbreviation? Do you put the city name in the QTH field along with the state (Ex. Los Angeles,CA)? If you aren't using DX4WIN v8.??, what field, and what form/convention, do you put the city name in? I'm taking a stab at County Hunting and don't want to have to go through my log and look up each county, by "hand", using the city name and state in the QSO. I'm thinking of writing a program that would look at an ADIF file and update the CNTY field. For this reason, I was wanting to know of any conventions that might already be in use. Does anyone else have interest in using such a program, if I write it? Thanks, Lee N7NU __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
