[Dx4win] 6.03 usage report, suggestions for enhancement
Gee, Lou, you must have missed number 4. Try Window | Logbook. And, right click and see the options. John, K2CIB - Original Message - From: L. Sica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win reflector dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:49 PM Subject: [Dx4win] 6.03 usage report, suggestions for enhancement This message is being sent to the DX4Win reflector and to DX4Win support Having used 6.0.3 for a bit now, I feel I can make some comments on it. By far for the most part, it's a good update. Most of what I use of the new features is the LOTW interfacing features. A little confusing (as has been discussed on this reflector), but once you understand how to do it, not bad at all. The DXCC submission now allowing for DXCC challenge submissions is a plus, too. DX4Win is the best DX logging program out there. Other programs are slow (even making my Athlon XP 3000 box seem like it's struggling a bit), or are SO FULL of things to adjust (I don't want to have to spend an hour adjusting every font and every color on every window) or so full of features (digital voice keyers, beacon tracking, etc) that they skimp on basic stuff like DXCC awards submission or any sort of WAZ tracking at all. DX4Win is fast, it has easy to read windows, and it covers the needs of a logging program (data entry and reporting) very, very well. After saying all that, my suggestions 1) A better list of rotator directions for prefixes: For example. every time I enter a UA0 or UA9 call, DX4Win wants to rotate my beam to 353 degrees. Problem is, a ham in Asiatic Russia might be at a heading of anywhere from 325 to 25 degrees from here. A more detailed prefix list (UA9A, UA9K, UA0Z, UA0Y, etc, etc) would provide a better bearing for automatic rotator adjustment. 2) A date range and band filter on the Change Award Flags selection: DXCC cards submitted to Field Checkers can't include 160m cards or cards more than 10 years old. Being able to select these cards right from DX4Win would be a big help. 3) The ability to IMPORT from a CSV file: Sometimes, you just want to make changes to multiple items in your log that you know you just couldn't expect a logging program designer to think of. DX4Win can already export all fields to CSV. If it could RE-IMPORT those fields after you did whatever magic you had to in your favorite spreadsheet program, that would be sweet. 4) A seperate window for browsing the log than from entering data This is something I used to have in a previous program some years back, and I have gotten used to not having it. Still I miss not having to lose the current entry in my log window just because I want to do a search through my log to see what QSO's meet a certain critera. Thanks to all (including Paul) for listening to my suggestions. 73 de Lou AC0X ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] 6.03 usage report, suggestions for enhancement
L. Sica wrote: 1) A better list of rotator directions for prefixes: For example. every time I enter a UA0 or UA9 call, DX4Win wants to rotate my beam to 353 degrees. Problem is, a ham in Asiatic Russia might be at a heading of anywhere from 325 to 25 degrees from here. A more detailed prefix list (UA9A, UA9K, UA0Z, UA0Y, etc, etc) would provide a better bearing for automatic rotator adjustment. Unless your antenna is a 10+ element Yagi, such tweaking of bearings will make little noticeable difference even for large DXCC entities like UA9/0 and VK. 73 Zoran WA7AA
[Dx4win] 6.03 usage report, suggestions for enhancement
For bands like 10 meters, for signals right in the mud, a 30 degree difference is noticable even on my 8 element LP. For larger monobanders, I'm sure it more so. And besides, such detailed prefix info does exist, it'd be nice to see it incorporated into DX4Win. - Original Message - From: Zoran Brlecic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dx4win reflector dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] 6.03 usage report, suggestions for enhancement L. Sica wrote: 1) A better list of rotator directions for prefixes: For example. every time I enter a UA0 or UA9 call, DX4Win wants to rotate my beam to 353 degrees. Problem is, a ham in Asiatic Russia might be at a heading of anywhere from 325 to 25 degrees from here. A more detailed prefix list (UA9A, UA9K, UA0Z, UA0Y, etc, etc) would provide a better bearing for automatic rotator adjustment. Unless your antenna is a 10+ element Yagi, such tweaking of bearings will make little noticeable difference even for large DXCC entities like UA9/0 and VK. 73 Zoran WA7AA ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] 6.03 usage report, suggestions for enhancement
Let me clarify a seperate window for *entering search criteria to browse the log, and another seperate window to *add an entry to the log*. That way you can have QSO details for your current QSO in one window, and a search criteria for your existing log entries in another, so you don't loose the QSO data you're entering if you want to search your logbook. - Original Message - From: J. F. Samuels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: L. Sica [EMAIL PROTECTED]; DX4WIN List Server DX4WIN@MAILMAN.QTH.NET Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] 6.03 usage report, suggestions for enhancement Gee, Lou, you must have missed number 4. Try Window | Logbook. And, right click and see the options. John, K2CIB - Original Message - From: L. Sica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win reflector dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:49 PM Subject: [Dx4win] 6.03 usage report, suggestions for enhancement This message is being sent to the DX4Win reflector and to DX4Win support Having used 6.0.3 for a bit now, I feel I can make some comments on it. By far for the most part, it's a good update. Most of what I use of the new features is the LOTW interfacing features. A little confusing (as has been discussed on this reflector), but once you understand how to do it, not bad at all. The DXCC submission now allowing for DXCC challenge submissions is a plus, too. DX4Win is the best DX logging program out there. Other programs are slow (even making my Athlon XP 3000 box seem like it's struggling a bit), or are SO FULL of things to adjust (I don't want to have to spend an hour adjusting every font and every color on every window) or so full of features (digital voice keyers, beacon tracking, etc) that they skimp on basic stuff like DXCC awards submission or any sort of WAZ tracking at all. DX4Win is fast, it has easy to read windows, and it covers the needs of a logging program (data entry and reporting) very, very well. After saying all that, my suggestions 1) A better list of rotator directions for prefixes: For example. every time I enter a UA0 or UA9 call, DX4Win wants to rotate my beam to 353 degrees. Problem is, a ham in Asiatic Russia might be at a heading of anywhere from 325 to 25 degrees from here. A more detailed prefix list (UA9A, UA9K, UA0Z, UA0Y, etc, etc) would provide a better bearing for automatic rotator adjustment. 2) A date range and band filter on the Change Award Flags selection: DXCC cards submitted to Field Checkers can't include 160m cards or cards more than 10 years old. Being able to select these cards right from DX4Win would be a big help. 3) The ability to IMPORT from a CSV file: Sometimes, you just want to make changes to multiple items in your log that you know you just couldn't expect a logging program designer to think of. DX4Win can already export all fields to CSV. If it could RE-IMPORT those fields after you did whatever magic you had to in your favorite spreadsheet program, that would be sweet. 4) A seperate window for browsing the log than from entering data This is something I used to have in a previous program some years back, and I have gotten used to not having it. Still I miss not having to lose the current entry in my log window just because I want to do a search through my log to see what QSO's meet a certain critera. Thanks to all (including Paul) for listening to my suggestions. 73 de Lou AC0X ___ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
[Dx4win] RTTY in 6.02
Why don?t my RTTY work OK ? In rtty mode, I can receive rtty OK ,but my trcvr refuse to transmit ! When I use the F-buttons on the computer, the only thing my computer say is +?what? follow by cmd: I`m using ICOM IC-775DSP + AEA PK-232MBX and Windows xp, DX4WIN 6.02 All the settings in my computer,PK-232 and trcvr seems to be OK or! Any suggestions? 73s de Ben SM3DXC
[Dx4win] Import help
Hi All: I am new to DX4WIN. Just finished the IARU contest and want to import my log into DX4WIN. The question is when importing, can I set a flag which will check my incoming log for awards and generate a report (New and new bands, etc) relative to the log I now have in DX4WIN? Thank you in advance 73's Michael WG0M From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 11 13:50:11 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mel) Date: Sun Jul 11 13:52:53 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] 6.03 usage report, suggestions for enhancement Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 deg makes a noticeable difference with my 5-el... 3 or 4 db is important... It's the difference between a 2 el Yagi and a 5 el Yagi. Besides, it's a looong way from 25 to 325 degrees if you are using a South Centered rotator. Zoran says: Unless your antenna is a 10+ element Yagi, such tweaking of bearings will make little noticeable difference even for large DXCC entities like UA9/0 and VK. Mel... VE2DC
