Re: [Dx4win] Reflector Digest??

2008-10-12 Thread K2DBK - David
Hi Karl, Click on the link below, scroll down the bottom where it says Dx4win Subscribers, enter your email address and click on unsubscribe or edit options. After logging in, you'll get to a screen where you can set your list options, the first one controls whether you get individual

[Dx4win] Typo in QSL manager box

2008-03-08 Thread K2DBK - David
Hi Karl, I believe that if you go to the earlier (by date) QSO that you had and change the manager, it should change the manager for all QSOs that follow, until there's a newer manager entered. As an alternative, if you go to File-Databases-QSL managers, you can go to the

[Dx4win] VP6DX shows Pitcairn

2008-02-24 Thread K2DBK - David
The easiest thing to do is when you work them, just put VP6/D in the prefix and it will be fine for that QSO and all future QSOs. If you want to do it in advance, log a dummy qso with VP6/D in the prefix field, then go back and delete it. The prefix change will stay. At 05:19 PM 2/24/2008,

[Dx4win] Connectivity to ICOM 756 Pro II

2008-02-16 Thread K2DBK - David
I've had a Pro-II connected to DX4WIN for years and have never had a problem. Make sure that you have CI-V Transceive set to OFF on the Others Set menu, because that can cause issues. I personally have my rig set to a baud rate of 19200 and the CI-V address set to 64h, and of course the

[Dx4win] Consolas font

2007-05-13 Thread K2DBK - David
Hi Jim, I couldn't find that font on my system, but a quick search turned up this page on the Microsoft web site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3displaylang=en You can download the font from there, and it looks

[Dx4win] 7.03 label font selection broken? Or wrong font type?

2007-05-13 Thread K2DBK - David
At 12:18 PM 5/13/2007, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: A couple more questions: - how do I make unconfirmed QSOs print PSE QSL and confirmed QSOs print TKS QSL on the label? There are three blank lines under Greeting in the Rep/lab preferences, but they are otherwise unidentified. On the first line,

[Dx4win] Help, please

2007-05-05 Thread K2DBK - David
Hi Karl, If you click on Edit on the print labels screen (or choose File-Database-Labels and click edit), you'll find a checkbox labelled Commercial. Just uncheck that and you should be set. At 10:19 PM 5/4/2007, Karl Oyster, K1KO wrote: I know there's a way to eliminate the commercial

[Dx4win] Date Range?

2006-12-30 Thread K2DBK - David
The other thing is that if you have QSO Date set to Range in Preferences (Preferences-QSO-QSO Date), then when you press F8 to do a search, after you enter one date, when you press Enter to start the search, you'll get prompted for the 2nd date. If you have the QSO Date field set to either

[Dx4win] Re: Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files(Alan Zack)

2006-11-23 Thread K2DBK - David
Indeed. For instance, my zip code is 07675, which is listed officially as Westwood, NJ (where the main post office is located). However, I live in River Vale, and the zip code also covers Old Tappan. As it happens, the point where FN20, FN21, FN30, and FN31 meet is within this area, so you

[Dx4win] Frequency Logging

2005-11-25 Thread K2DBK - David
Under QSO, select Contest Mode and put $$ in the Text to add to Note field. You do not have to have contest mode enabled for that to work. At 06:22 PM 11/25/2005, Stan Staten wrote: Can some one remind me of the stuff to put in the Notes field to have it log exact frequency? It is likely in the

[Dx4win] n1mm

2005-09-11 Thread K2DBK - David
I just export from N1MM as ADIF and import ADIF into DX4WIN. Works fine. At 02:33 PM 9/10/2005, Mike Fulcher wrote: Has anyone created import filters for N1MM into DX4WIN? Mike KC7V ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net

[Dx4win] CW keying change in 7.01?

2005-06-10 Thread K2DBK - David
I recently converted from version 6.03 to 7.01. I noticed what seems to be a change (perhaps a bug) with CW keying. It seems that under this version, when I use the built-in keyer, PTT is behind triggered as well, which was not the case previously. System is Windows XP Pro, I have COM2 set up

[Dx4win] (no subject)

2005-01-24 Thread K2DBK - David
Gary: The P is Priority of the spot, and generally Black on White means I've worked this country/mode/band before but not this station.. For a better explanation, while in the spot window, press F1, and it will tell you all about this. (And in a better way than I can!) At 08:41 PM

[Dx4win] ADIF Import of LOTW

2005-01-22 Thread K2DBK - David
I can see this being useful as an option, with settings like: -Imported data does not replace existing data -Imported data completely overwrites existing data -Imported data only overwrites missing data -User is asked on a per-item/per-QSO basis You listening

[Dx4win] Checking Spots without adding to QSO window?

2005-01-19 Thread K2DBK - David
Left-click on the spot, then right-click and select Listen. It's 2 mouse clicks (one left, one right), but better than 1 click then control-L. (For what it's worth, I wouldn't mind seeing something like double-right click to do this, or perhaps even using a click on the mouse wheel (if

[Dx4win] Band-specific custom awards

2004-08-07 Thread K2DBK - David
This morning, I figured that I'd be nice and answer the one (!) guy that I heard running in the 10-10 contest to give him the points. However, after entering his call (and yes, I was on 10m), I went down to the custom awards field to select the 10-10 award (so I could log his 10-10#), but it

[Dx4win] Freq. Selection on 6 meters

2004-07-03 Thread K2DBK - David
You need to edit the Radio information that shows what the highest frequency available is. To do this, go to File-Databases-Radio, and in the Edit Radio screen (it should be the one you're using), change the high frequency as appropriate. (Mine says 52,600 Khz). Remember to save changes, and

[Dx4win] Fw: Antigen found VIRUS= W32/MyDoom-A (Sophos) virus

2004-01-30 Thread K2DBK - David
It's likely that this isn't due to anything you did. Many of the current viruses spoof the return address, so when they get caught by mail anti-virus software, it returns to the wrong place. (In other words, you might have never sent the email in question, but the software thinks that you did,

[Dx4win] Help

2004-01-07 Thread K2DBK - David
At 02:48 PM 1/7/2004, Paulini Kenn Cont AFRS/RSISQT wrote: I am having problems printing labels. Whenever I mark a QSO and then print the label (after saving!), I get one lable that says Method = Buro. This wastes two labels as it skips one and one has the message on it. Any ideas how to get

[Dx4win] Downloads from LOTW ADIF

2003-10-13 Thread K2DBK - David
From the spec at http://www.hosenose.com/adif/adif.html CNTY C US County in the format STATE,COUNTY. For example GA,BARROW. Use CQ County list Looks like LoTW is wrong, I've cc'd them on this string of messages. At 07:37 PM 10/13/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/13/2003

[Dx4win] LoTW exports

2003-10-07 Thread K2DBK - David
to query the WriteLog reflector and see if anyone is getting the same results, I know a lot of them are using dx4win. -- Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donald Eriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED]; K2DBK - David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, October

[Dx4win] Spots question w/6.02

2003-06-07 Thread K2DBK - David
I noticed after upgrading to 6.02 that the country identifier from the spot cluster window shows up in the comments field in the spot window. It didn't do this until I went to 6.02 (I was at 5.03 I guess) and I haven't changed spot cluster and they haven't changed software. As an example, here's a

[Dx4win] LOTW

2003-05-18 Thread K2DBK - David
At 12:49 PM 5/18/2003, sm3dxc wrote: When I uploaded my log (in adif) I get the following answer: Your message did not appear to have a TrustQSL file attached to it. Whats=B4s wrong !! You need to upload the .TQ8 file that you get from signing the .ADI file,= =20 not the .ADI file itself. 73,

[Dx4win] LOTW Test

2003-05-17 Thread K2DBK - David
I had a similar problem with PSK...for some reason, while most of my PSK contacts are in the log as PSK31, a couple (probably manually entered) said PSK. I went into the log and changed those. There are still some modes that aren't supported (like PACK), so for testing, I excluded those from my

[Dx4win] Logbook of the World/DX4Win Translation Errors.

2003-05-17 Thread K2DBK - David
At 04:49 PM 5/17/2003, Terry wrote: Recently submitted some test logs to the ARRL Logbook of the World beta test. My return report indicated mode errors and eventually rejected my log submission. Extract follows! 2003-05-17 20:19:17 LOTW_QSO: Error in record 2315: MODE: Invalid value in field

[Dx4win] works great! but FO0PT ??

2003-05-17 Thread K2DBK - David
I believe that the documentation says that they aren't really doing any validation for the beta test. At 05:34 PM 5/17/2003, N2TU wrote: All, Do you have to submit a certificate request for all the callsigns you've held?...if so, they may or may not be in the FCC database... Lou N2TU 73,

[Dx4win] Additional Search Features

2003-01-25 Thread K2DBK - David
There's a freeware logging program called logconv (you can download it from http://www.qsl.net/ka5wss/logconv/ ) that will convert ADIF input files (which DX4WIN can generate) and many other types of input to Cabrillo and a bunch of other output types. I played around with this recently and

[Dx4win] Search for blank field

2003-01-06 Thread K2DBK - David
John, Try using K as the prefix and use !* in the state field. (In other word you want to match ! (not) * (anything). At 12:54 AM 1/6/2003, J. F. Samuels wrote: I don't remember how to search for a blank state, for example -- all the K calls where I didn't fill one in. Does anyone

[Dx4win] Frequency entry in DX4WIN

2002-12-07 Thread K2DBK - David
I've been using $$ for quite some time but I've never seen the split frequency entered, either when using an Icom 706MkIIG or an Icom 756 Pro II. The Main VFO frequency is what's always there. Is there something else that needs to be done to get the split frequency to be entered (if split mode

[Dx4win] Frequency entry in DX4WIN

2002-12-07 Thread K2DBK - David
Thanks to all for the answer. I guess I should have known that. At 05:30 PM 12/7/2002, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: At 04:49 PM 12/7/2002 -0500, K2DBK - David wrote: I've been using $$ for quite some time but I've never seen the split frequency entered, either when using an Icom 706MkIIG

[Dx4win] CW keyboard question

2002-12-03 Thread K2DBK - David
At 06:41 PM 12/3/2002, William Liporace - NA2NA wrote: I have seen a lot of messages, but yes DX4WIN does support serial keying I think the question is not whether DX4WIN supports serial port keying, but whether it supports the selection of a serial port different from the radio control

[Dx4win] 756ProII rig file

2002-07-28 Thread K2DBK - David
Greg, Thanks a million! That worked perfectly. I am curious though: Where did you find that tacking the 01 (or 02 or 03) would set the filter? I checked the manual, and the only thing I could find was that 06xx would set the radio to mode xx (which DX4WIN does a fine job of inserting).

[Dx4win] Telnet via Cable Modem Timeout

2002-07-06 Thread K2DBK - David
I have the same problem, and I'm sure it's not RF-related, since sometimes when I've gotten disconnected I've been out of the shack (and not transmitting!) for some time. There are a couple of things to consider here: First, the Internet is not guaranteed to be 100% reliable to all locations

[Dx4win] SWL labels

2002-02-09 Thread K2DBK - David
Ok Paul, thanks. I guess that makes sense. I didn't know what the SWL rules for QSL'ing were, I wanted to make sure that I didn't short-change the guy that I was sending the card to. At 05:24 PM 2/9/2002, Paul van der Eijk wrote: Depends who you ask, but I came to the conclusion that the SWL

[Dx4win] SWL labels

2002-01-29 Thread K2DBK - David
I got a couple of SWL cards via the buro recently. I marked a QSO for SWL confirmation (via control-F2) and entered the SWL number. When I print (preview, actually) the label, I don't see the Callsign listed on the label. On the label, I see SWL: NL 12345 R89 (the SWL number that I entered),

[Dx4win] New user with many questions

2002-01-27 Thread K2DBK - David
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