[Dx4win] 6.03
At 10:35 PM 5/11/2004, Rick Graham wrote: Love it how the default band for new QSO's is set for 30m *SSB*!! J Rick, did you transfer your preferences from the old version to the new one? If not, this may be due to the addition of the 60 meter band. Perhaps a band counter is off-by-one. Mine comes up 20 meters as expected. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC
[Dx4win] LoTW problems
At 08:15 PM 5/11/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I select Export to LoTW in the Labels menu. Is this not correct? (seemed like a weird place to put it) It finishes in about 10 milliseconds. So I looked at the output file, and all it contains is the one line file header with eoh. Nothing else. Steve, I have the same problem. There's some magic step that we must be missing. Or perhaps something in our .CFG files is preventing this from working. My guess is some uninitialized field somewhere which makes DX4WIN think that all of the QSOs have already been exported, which they have not. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC
[Dx4win] 6.03
Rick, Jim Do you have any QSOs with the Upload flag set to Y. (Its the equivalent of the label flag for printing labels) Paul At 11:16 PM 5/11/2004, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: At 10:35 PM 5/11/2004, Rick Graham wrote: Love it how the default band for new QSO's is set for 30m *SSB*!! J Rick, did you transfer your preferences from the old version to the new one? If not, this may be due to the addition of the 60 meter band. Perhaps a band counter is off-by-one. Mine comes up 20 meters as expected. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC Paul van der Eijk GAMS Development Corporation 1217 Potomac Street NW Washington DC, 20007 Tel: (202) 342-0180 Fax: (202) 342-0181 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.gams.com
[Dx4win] CALLSIGN LOOK UP
Just wondering if I am doing something wrong in the new program. When I right click on the callsign / manager lookup window to have it lookup an callsign on QRZ, it says that the callsign in not in the data base on QRZ.com. This always worked for me in the old one. Thanks- John W9RPM EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MY WEBSITE: http://www.w9rpm.com BLUFF COUNTRY DX CLUB: http://www.qsl.net/w9idx/ Free Ham Radio Classified Ads: http://swap.QTH.com
[Dx4win] Deleting Error messages in QSO notes?
I am pretty pleased with the 6.03 update. I was running 5.03 previously. I encountered a number of differences in the DXCC counts in the summary, but all are now resolved. None were due to errors in DX4WIN 5.03 or 6.03. Most were errors that I made when entering QSOs in the previous version. The new country database caught the errors. I do have one question, however. Can the error messages that are inserted into the QSO Note field be deleted other than one at a time? I have a lot of old error messages from various imports and upgrades as well as some new ones from this upgrade. I would like to delete all the error messages at once without having to do them individually. Anyone know if this is possible and if so, how to do it. John DeRuiter, WM7A http://members.cox.net/wm7a/
[Dx4win] 6.03 upgrade
To my great pleasure, the 6.03 upgrade, based on this morning's installation file, went almost flawlessly. Without merging my old country file, my CnfTotal for DXCC agreed exactly with the same number from 6.02. I'm still a little confused by the meaning of the UplCnf field in the QSO window, which is not defined in the help file I downloaded with the program. There are some small deviations -- for example, my DXCC summary shows one more country on 80m in the QSL mailed category than before. No instances of the word error are found in my notes. What's the best way to chase down individual discrepancies like this? 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF Contest Station Database was updated on April 26, 2004 2706 contest stations at www.pvrc.org/WCSD/WCSDsearch.htm
[Dx4win] Weired spam messages - sort of OT
Yup - he assured me that something was wrong, but that he didn't send them messages. 73, Joe WD0M Is anyone else getting a weird email back to their InBox from a TOM ROSE when they post a message or reply to DX4WIN? This email is almost spam to me as it says to follow the link below, which takes me to a site to buy their product!! Just wondering if anyone else is getting this. I will be setting up a rule to permanently trash those notices! 73 DE AI3W, Rick -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/dx4win/attachments/20040512/531297b7/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 12 09:25:10 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Wed May 12 09:28:55 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] DX4WIN Cty File Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim I installed your new Cty File and found it agreed with my count except for one instance... On 9/26/87 I worked and have the QSL card SY/SV2TX who was on Mount Athosyour file showed this contact as Greece...Changing the prefix to SV/A fixed the problem...Thanks for you efforts in putting out such a complete and accurate CTY file. Lee, N5PO On Tue, 11 May 2004 12:23:33 -0700 (PDT) Jim Reisert AD1C [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's also an extensive revision history of the country file changes: http://www.ad1c.com/dx4win/history.htm It reflects a lot of painstaking research. Please read it if you have questions on your differences. 73 - Jim AD1C = Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 12 09:45:20 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mel Martin) Date: Wed May 12 09:47:06 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] QSO Notes Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a way Export your log as ADIF Use an editor on the ADIF file to change every occurance ofQSLMSG:* to Delete all your DX4Win QSO'S Re-import the changed ADIF file Backup first of course!!!
[Dx4win] QSO Notes
Mel, ADIF knows nothing about awards; so that information will be lost. When you export the log using the dx4win filter, you get two files: xxx.dxn and xxx.dxq. The dxq files contains the qsos and the notes for the qso. A text editor can get rid of the notes quickly. I will see if I can add such a feature to the multiple qso operations. Paul At 09:45 AM 5/12/2004 -0400, Mel Martin wrote: There is a way Export your log as ADIF Use an editor on the ADIF file to change every occurance ofQSLMSG:* to Delete all your DX4Win QSO'S Re-import the changed ADIF file Backup first of course!!! ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Paul van der Eijk (KK4HD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dx4win.com
[Dx4win] Deleting Error messages in QSO notes?
Steve, Ok. I give up. How do you export to Excel and then import again. I know that you can write to a .csv file by right clicking on the log window and that can be imported by Excel, but I don't see a way to import from Excel. John DeRuiter, WM7A http://members.cox.net/wm7a/ -Original Message- From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:30 AM To: John DeRuiter Cc: DX4WIN reflector Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Deleting Error messages in QSO notes? Hi John, There is a way around it, another user of this forum recommended for me as I have over 200,000 records and did not fancy the prospect of removing each of the errors individually. You can output the file into excel and this way it is easier to clear the field - easy if there is no other information you wish to keep in that field (as Guy has previously mentioned). It would of course be nice to have a few lines of extra code just to compare the first word in this field ie if it sees the word Error as the first word prompt to delete the field. Maybe for the next version if there is enough call for it ;-) Hope this helps, Steve G4KIV / ZC4BS Homepage: http://www.stevebb.com Photo portfolio: http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/33060.html Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Dx4win] Uploads and LOTW
Any chance (at some point) of getting a default setting on the Preferences-QSO page that will allow us to change the default setting for this field (the Upload flag)? I have manually exported my entire log, and (at least so far) I see no reason not to continue doing so, so I'd like to have that flag default to Y, while leaving the label flag set to N. Also, is there any way to mass change the date in all my previously-upload QSOs (done with a manual ADIF export) so that I can track that they've been uploaded already? At 10:05 AM 5/12/2004, Paul van der Eijk wrote: Hi, I realized I did not copy the refelctor on this message, Paul - I tried to do the electronic confirmations similar to the paper equivalent: Upload = Y == I want to upload this QSO; like Label = Y. You can set the flag using the command on the label menu. Upload Date (QSO was uploaded; set when doing the upload) like QSL Date Upl Conf (set when importing your log back into DX4WIN and the imported QSO is flagged as confirmed. You have to select the option to set the Upl Conf flag This is like Cnfm = Y This also explains why I put the 'Export for LOTW' on the label menu; it is like printing your labels. Also note that this option sets the upload date; a regular ADIF export does not do that. Paul ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win 73, David, K2DBK
[Dx4win] 6.0.3 Set upload flag problems
6.0.3 looks pretty good - but trying to set the upload flags for the 57,000+ qso's I've uploaded earlier. No matter if a filter is set or not - it only sets 249 QSO upload flags. I don't see any pattern for those 249 - Thanks Paul W2LE
[Dx4win] Deleting Error messages in QSO notes?
John, You may not want to use a cvs file from Excel as an import file. I converted a Macintosh database file to cvs through Excel and Excel stripped the leading zeros from UTC times. I never figured out how to set the cell number format to accept leading zeros in Excel. I was using the HHMM format, and DX4WIN 6.02 times with the leading zeros stripped from the import file appeared as 00:00 or ??:??. Perhaps Excel would not strip the zeros from the HH:MM format; I didn't try it. The only way I could produce a file that would import properly was to export the database file as comma delineated text with return (enter on the PC) as the end of line character, open and convert the file in Word, and save as a text file in ASCII format. The resulting file imported into 6.02 with leading zeros intact. Nelson, KU0A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John DeRuiter Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:21 AM To: Steve Cc: DX4WIN reflector Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Deleting Error messages in QSO notes? Steve, Ok. I give up. How do you export to Excel and then import again. I know that you can write to a .csv file by right clicking on the log window and that can be imported by Excel, but I don't see a way to import from Excel. John DeRuiter, WM7A http://members.cox.net/wm7a/ -Original Message- From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:30 AM To: John DeRuiter Cc: DX4WIN reflector Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Deleting Error messages in QSO notes? Hi John, There is a way around it, another user of this forum recommended for me as I have over 200,000 records and did not fancy the prospect of removing each of the errors individually. You can output the file into excel and this way it is easier to clear the field - easy if there is no other information you wish to keep in that field (as Guy has previously mentioned). It would of course be nice to have a few lines of extra code just to compare the first word in this field ie if it sees the word Error as the first word prompt to delete the field. Maybe for the next version if there is enough call for it ;-) Hope this helps, Steve G4KIV / ZC4BS Homepage: http://www.stevebb.com Photo portfolio: http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/33060.html Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] DX4Win and FT1000MP MarkV
Hi all ! Who is using DX4Win connected to a FT1000MP Mark V ? I am experiencing something that did not happen before with version 5 : the CAT light keeps blinking, and creates a light QRN when it does, on 20m. Thanks for letting me know if you experience the same thing, and/or how you solved the problem . 73 Paul F6EXV
[Dx4win] eqsl
Hi all, After just receiving a notice that I have 85 eQSL's waiting for me and going through them all, I was wondering how to differentiate these from regular QSL's in dx4win. Optimally, it would be nice to have an additional pulldown in the 'Method', but I guess I'll just put them under 'other' for now. So now I have qsl cards and qsl files. What is next? ;) 73 DE AI3W, Rick -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/dx4win/attachments/20040512/ac069895/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 12 17:28:40 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WC7N) Date: Wed May 12 17:30:21 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] 6.03 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The more I play around with the new DX4WIN the more I like it. Great improvement over 6.02 and at least for me it does everything that I want it to do. Rod WC7N
[Dx4win] DX Spots
Hi all, I know this has been rehashed, but I cannot find my references. 1. Is there a way to automatically have an internet spot address chosen and log you on when you start DX4WIN? If so, how? 2. What is the command I send to the internet spot to reject any spots that originate outside of my particular zone? IE, while it is nice to see that JA has a good band opening, it does nothing for me. 3. Any other tidbits that I should know about spots, settings, etc.? :) Thanks in advance, 73 DE AI3W, Rick
[Dx4win] LoTW problems
Jim, Can you follow along? 1. Open samplelog.dxl 2. File | Info; 5538 QSOs 3. QSO | Filter Select upload = Y; no QSOs found 4. Labels | Set upload flags; I get 5538 QSOs 5. Labels | Export for LOTW (no filter or selection active) 6. Takes no time it seems :) 7. File new log (I'm not saving the modified log) 8. File import (ADIF) I read 5538 QSOs Paul At 11:20 PM 5/11/2004, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: At 08:15 PM 5/11/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I select Export to LoTW in the Labels menu. Is this not correct? (seemed like a weird place to put it) It finishes in about 10 milliseconds. So I looked at the output file, and all it contains is the one line file header with eoh. Nothing else. Steve, I have the same problem. There's some magic step that we must be missing. Or perhaps something in our .CFG files is preventing this from working. My guess is some uninitialized field somewhere which makes DX4WIN think that all of the QSOs have already been exported, which they have not. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC
[Dx4win] Ver6.03 : Printing in Landscape
I seem to be having trouble with printing. If I right click the logbook window and select print, then select setup and click Landscape for the orientation, it still prints in the portrait mode. Ver 6.02 works just fine here. Printer is an Epson C84. Can anyone else verify this or tell me what I setup wrong? Thanks.ScottWD0DAN
[Dx4win] DX Spots
--- Rick Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is there a way to automatically have an internet spot address chosen and log you on when you start DX4WIN? If so, how? Not at this time. 2. What is the command I send to the internet spot to reject any spots that originate outside of my particular zone? IE, while it is nice to see that JA has a good band opening, it does nothing for me. Zone or country? You can do country filtering by prefix in the preferences, go to the Packet1 tab. If you mean at the cluster (which is more desirable), it depends on which software your cluster is running. Both DX Spider and AR have extensive filtering capabilities, too much to describe here. If it's DX-Spider, look for the user manual on: http://www.dxcluster.org/main/ If it's AR-cluster, look for the user manual on: http://www.ab5k.net/Home.aspx 73 - Jim AD1C = Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 12 19:14:45 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A. Sewell) Date: Wed May 12 19:16:25 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] Ver6.03 : Printing in Landscape References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Same here. Select landscape and it prints portrait. Alan N5NA - Original Message - From: Scott R Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:56 PM Subject: [Dx4win] Ver6.03 : Printing in Landscape I seem to be having trouble with printing. If I right click the logbook window and select print, then select setup and click Landscape for the orientation, it still prints in the portrait mode. Ver 6.02 works just fine here. Printer is an Epson C84. Can anyone else verify this or tell me what I setup wrong? Thanks.ScottWD0DAN ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] DX Spots
Rick, I think I can help with part of you question, ie the filtering the internet spots. After you telnet in type: set/filter k/pass (or what ever country you want to see spots from) Or to limit spots to given states: set/filter doc/pass k set/filter dos/pass nc,sc,ga,fl (this is a list of states that you want to see the spots from) to view your filter setting, type show/filter These filter are retained when you log off the packet node. You will have to set them for each packet node that you access. 73, Ed K3IXD Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:01:43 -0400 From: Rick Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Dx4win] DX Spots To: Dx4win@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, I know this has been rehashed, but I cannot find my references. 1. Is there a way to automatically have an internet spot address chosen and log you on when you start DX4WIN? If so, how? 2. What is the command I send to the internet spot to reject any spots that originate outside of my particular zone? IE, while it is nice to see that JA has a good band opening, it does nothing for me. 3. Any other tidbits that I should know about spots, settings, etc.? :) Thanks in advance, 73 DE AI3W, Rick
[Dx4win] DX Spots
Rick, Here is what I did and it sure simplifies things until an autoconnect feature comes along... Save a copy of your dx4win.tcp file under a different name (dx4win_all.tcp or whatever) or in a different location. Open the dx4win.tcp file with notepad and delete all the clusters you do not use. Hopefully you have a single reliable node picked out and that will be the only one you keep. Save your file. Now when you open it up there will only be one entry and all you have to do is click ok. The next step is to set one of the packet window f-keys to your call and %M for carriage return and any other keys for your frequently used commands (sh/dx/50, etc.), Makes things much much simpler! 73 es DX de Mike / W8DN - Original Message - From: Jim Reisert AD1C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rick Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 7:06 PM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX Spots --- Rick Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is there a way to automatically have an internet spot address chosen and log you on when you start DX4WIN? If so, how? Not at this time. 2. What is the command I send to the internet spot to reject any spots that originate outside of my particular zone? IE, while it is nice to see that JA has a good band opening, it does nothing for me. Zone or country? You can do country filtering by prefix in the preferences, go to the Packet1 tab. If you mean at the cluster (which is more desirable), it depends on which software your cluster is running. Both DX Spider and AR have extensive filtering capabilities, too much to describe here. If it's DX-Spider, look for the user manual on: http://www.dxcluster.org/main/ If it's AR-cluster, look for the user manual on: http://www.ab5k.net/Home.aspx 73 - Jim AD1C = Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] Priorities gone with new CTY file
I recently updated my dx4win.cty file to AD1C's latest version. I had a little bit of fixing to do, but with very little trouble I got my DXCC totals to be reported correctly. BUT Using the new file, all packet spots show a priority of 8 and they are all grayed out. This behavior persisted when I downloaded and installed version 6.03 (with my preferences imported via an .ini file). If I substitute my old .cty file in either version, all is well and the prioritization returns. Am I doing something wrong or missing a step in the setup? I have updated the .cty file before with no similar problems. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks 73... Randy, W8FN
[Dx4win] Priorities gone with new CTY file
In Preferences - Packet 1 - Prefixes for Spotters use a W instead of K D'OH!!! Thanks for nursing me through my latest episode of brain fade. 73... Randy, W8FN
[Dx4win] Priorities gone with new CTY file
Try going into Preferences | Packet1 and change the Prefixes/Zones for Spotters from K, VE to W, VE. 73, Alan N5NA - Original Message - From: Randy Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:06 PM Subject: [Dx4win] Priorities gone with new CTY file I recently updated my dx4win.cty file to AD1C's latest version. I had a little bit of fixing to do, but with very little trouble I got my DXCC totals to be reported correctly. BUT Using the new file, all packet spots show a priority of 8 and they are all grayed out. This behavior persisted when I downloaded and installed version 6.03 (with my preferences imported via an .ini file). If I substitute my old .cty file in either version, all is well and the prioritization returns. Am I doing something wrong or missing a step in the setup? I have updated the .cty file before with no similar problems. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks 73... Randy, W8FN ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] Priorities gone with new CTY file
At 10:25 PM 5/12/2004, Dick Flanagan wrote: At 07:06 PM 5/12/2004, you wrote: Using the new file, all packet spots show a priority of 8 and they are all grayed out. In Preferences - Packet 1 - Prefixes for Spotters use a W instead of K This is described on my web page: http://www.ad1c.com/dx4win/ 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC
