[Dx4win] New user with many questions
Note a bit of what Jim said indirectly. The errors reported are not necessarily telling you they are now wrong, but only that they differ from the information being imported. I also had many, many errors, but all that I remember were correct in DX4WIN. Mainly the old program used a different convention for prefixes (say UA9 instead of UA/9, can't remember a real example right now). So, the bottom line, the entries may be correct in DX4WIN and the errors are just a warning that differences exist but not that their for sure is an error now. Dan KI6X -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 2:55 AM To: William Hinkle Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] New user with many questions At 11:06 PM 1/27/2002 -0500, Bill KV3R wrote: 1. How do I deal with Asiatic Russia Zone errors? 2. Same question for VE Zones? The program should have done most of these correctly. The Russian callsign system is TRICKY, be VERY careful before you over-ride any entities or zones for these callsigns. Most of them should be correct by default in the 5.03 country file (perhaps your old program was wrong!). There is a page of callsign exceptions on the DX4WIN web site that may not be in the database yet. 3. Hawaii calls that are in KY,FL? 4. KG4 calls that are in 4 land not Gitmo? 5. It told me K5K was a State Side call, how do I fix that? Go to the QSO in question, and tab over to the Prefix field. Using the F1 key, select the correct entity, and save the QSO record (ENTER or F10). All subsequent QSOs with that callsign will now come up as that entity. - Jim -- Season's Greetings 2001/2002 - http://www.ad1c.com/2001/ Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] New user with many questions
Go easy on me, this has not been an easy upgrade! I got the program installed in a newer old computer, moved the old logging program (Logic 4 for DOS), CT (3 versions) and 10 Megs of old contest files. I then trashed the motherboard and had to install another one. Today I did an import and had 7,500 errors, so I tried it another way and only had about 600. I fixed about 400 of them. Now for the questions. 1. How do I deal with Asiatic Russia Zone errors? 2. Same question for VE Zones? 3. Hawaii calls that are in KY,FL? 4. KG4 calls that are in 4 land not Gitmo? 5. It told me K5K was a State Side call, how do I fix that? 6. With packet announce it's either DXCC New Band/Mode orZone/WPX, is this correct? I need to hear, DXCC New Country, New Band Country and any New Band CQZ. Can this be done? 7. I have about 600+ buro cards to take care of. How do I find each one of those QSO's to mark it as confirmed and to print a label? Do I have to do a filter for each one? Hope I haven't overloaded you all, I've just been using the other logging program for so long it's hard to pick up something new. Thanks for your patience. 73, Bill KV3R Riverton, WV
[Dx4win] New user with many questions
I'll take a couple of easy ones: For the KG4 calls that aren't in Gitmo, the K5K call that isn't US, and the Hawaii calls that are in KY FL (my personal favorite is the Alaska call in Louisiana): If you pull up those calls, in the Prefix field, just put in the correct real prefix. For example, for the KG4xxx calls, put in K, for K5K put in KH5K, etc. You can also fix those when entering by preceding (or following) the call with the correct Prefix, though I believe that if you put it in the Prefix field, it will be remembered for future uses of that callsign. One more I'll take a crack at: Regarding the buro cards, you do have to search, but the handy-dandy F2 key makes things much easier. If you go into File-Preferences, select the F2 Key tab. You can set the F2 key to mark the card as confirmed AND flag it for printing, and even whether to go direct, buro, etc. One handy tip someone told me is to make a scratch copy of your database, and play around with the functions on that one. If you mess something up, you can go back to the original log, save yourself another copy, and move forward from there. Good luck! At 11:06 PM 1/27/2002, William Hinkle wrote: 3. Hawaii calls that are in KY,FL? 4. KG4 calls that are in 4 land not Gitmo? 5. It told me K5K was a State Side call, how do I fix that? 7. I have about 600+ buro cards to take care of. How do I find each one of those QSO's to mark it as confirmed and to print a label? Do I have to do a filter for each one? 73, David - K2DBK
