Re: [Dx4win] Strange Happening

2012-07-07 Thread John Shaw
Check the top of the logbook window what does it say it is sorted by. I'm guessing some how it has been changed to something other than date. 73 John ZL1BYZ -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Carol Richards Sent:

Re: [Dx4win] QR-Code

2012-08-03 Thread John Shaw
Great idea, I don't know much about QR codes but have been told they can store up to 4,000 characters so why not use the already established ADIF format to store the information. Biggest limitation is it would have to become popular to be useful but it would be great for QSL managers and

Re: [Dx4win] How to find what new countries I worked

2012-12-04 Thread John Shaw
Probably not the answer your looking for but join Club Log upload you log to that. Under Timeline it provides first worked dates so it's easy to see how many you new ones were worked each year. There are many other interesting tools/reports available too. Other than that running some reports in

[Dx4win] FW: ARRL Logbook of the World Log Processing is About 7Days Behind

2012-12-10 Thread John Shaw
With the current state of affairs I thought some might find this helpful. -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2012 12:18 To: DX4WIN Reflector Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ARRL

Re: [Dx4win] FW: ARRL Logbook of the World Log Processing is About7Days Behind

2012-12-10 Thread John Shaw
Bugger, sorry meant for another group. By the way thanks for that Jim. -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Shaw Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2012 12:41 To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Dx4win] FW: ARRL

Re: [Dx4win] LOTW Not Found in Log

2012-12-11 Thread John Shaw
Use the last item under the LOTW menu review QSOs not found I can almost guarantee they are in your log but some of the information doesn't match. Probably because the other party has shifted QTH, changed their location details and re uploaded their whole log busting everything they had done

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN Data Updater v. 6.04 (re-release notice)

2013-04-20 Thread John Shaw
Looks good Jim, thanks again for all your good work. 73 John ZL1BYZ -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent: Sunday, 21 April 2013 09:36 To: DX4WIN Reflector Subject: [Dx4win] DX4WIN Data Updater

Re: [Dx4win] DX4Win QSO confirmations and Clublog.

2013-05-16 Thread John Shaw
Hi Dave, No expert but I think your whole situation could be made much simpler if you upgrade to V8.5. I think from memory somewhere in the version history the issue of LoTW cfm's been exported from DX4WIN to Clublog was fixed so there is no longer any need to send LoTW reports to Clublog to

Re: [Dx4win] ARRL Announces New Version of LoTW Software

2013-05-19 Thread John Shaw
Hi Alan, Take your time. Follow this link and read the last paragraph on the page. http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-announces-new-version-of-lotw-software 73 John ZL1BYZ -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of ALAN ZACK

Re: [Dx4win] Help with a small problem please

2013-06-21 Thread John Shaw
Hi Andy, The (HOLDING) feature is handy if you want to scroll back up the DX SPOTS to review them and not be bumped to the bottom when a new spot comes in. Yes the INSERT key toggles it on/off. HOLDING is also initiated if you sort the DX Spots window by frequency and is not toggled off when

Re: [Dx4win] DXCC QSL Download - New?

2013-11-07 Thread John Shaw
No one has commented on this yet. I have looked at the ADIF file and it would be fantastic to be able to use this file to set the DXCC award flags in DX4WIN. Since most of my DXCC submissions have been done using LoTW I am unable to easily and accurately educate my DX4WIN log of QSO's DXCC

Re: [Dx4win] DXCC QSL Download - New?

2013-11-07 Thread John Shaw
. This new file has the potential to fix that. 73 John ZL1BYZ. _ From: Rick Murphy [mailto:k1mu.nos...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 8 November 2013 16:33 To: John Shaw Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DXCC QSL Download - New? On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:10 PM, John Shaw jns...@compassnet.co.nz wrote

Re: [Dx4win] DXCC QSL Download - New?

2013-11-08 Thread John Shaw
2013 15:37 To: 'John Shaw'; dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [Dx4win] DXCC QSL Download - New? Checkout: http://dx4win.ad1c.us/appnotes/lotw.html /Dan KI6X -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Shaw Sent

Re: [Dx4win] KH8/S and DX4WIN407

2013-11-27 Thread John Shaw
Tony in the needed listing report double click on the W and it will take you to the QSO's. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tony Brock-Fisher Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2013 12:48 To:

Re: [Dx4win] Converting DXQ to ADIF Files

2014-02-04 Thread John Shaw
You could do something like this in notepad using edit/replace. Put NOTES:28Rx=14, in the find what box and FREQ_RX:814. in the replace box. If there are different bands and the number up to the comma and total number of characters changes then you will have to repeat the process with the

Re: [Dx4win] Converting DXQ to ADIF Files

2014-02-04 Thread John Shaw
Oh I missed the kHz bit. Just do a separate edit/replace kHz to 00 should fix that. 73 John Zl1BYZ. -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dick Flanagan Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:59 To: DX4WIN Reflector

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN.CTY country file Release #135 - 31 July 2014

2014-07-31 Thread John Shaw
Hi Jim, Great effort by you and the updater worked well as usual. Thank you. I notice the one file that does not update is current IOTA Islands (XML) and it is dated 24 July 2013. Is this correct? 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net]

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN.CTY country file Release #135 - 31 July 2014

2014-08-01 Thread John Shaw
Message- From: Jim Reisert AD1C [mailto:jjreis...@alum.mit.edu] Sent: Saturday, 2 August 2014 02:07 To: John Shaw Cc: DX4WIN Reflector Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN.CTY country file Release #135 - 31 July 2014 On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:34 PM, John Shaw zl1...@gmail.com wrote: I notice

Re: [Dx4win] ARRL Online

2014-10-10 Thread John Shaw
I contacted ARRL directly a couple days ago as I want to use the online DXCC App to do a submission before the end of the year and this was the reply I got.

Re: [Dx4win] how to make ADIF file to upload to Club Log

2014-11-03 Thread John Shaw
George is wanting to upload to Club Log? I use the Import/Export under the File menu and choose ADIF to do this. Using the Export to LoTW will screw you up as doing that changes LoTW upload flags which you don't want to do if your not uploading the resulting file to LoTW. Just my 2c worth 73

Re: [Dx4win] how to make ADIF file to upload to Club Log

2014-11-03 Thread John Shaw
George is wanting to upload to Club Log? I use the Import/Export under the File menu and choose ADIF to do this. Using the Export to LoTW will screw you up as doing that changes LoTW upload flags which you don't want to do if your not uploading the resulting file to LoTW. Just my 2c worth 73

Re: [Dx4win] confirmation

2014-11-06 Thread John Shaw
And C is for Checked which is the final state after Submitted. RTFM :-) 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent: Friday, 7 November 2014 11:45 To: Dwayne Cc: DX4WIN Reflector Subject: Re: [Dx4win]

Re: [Dx4win] confirmation

2014-11-06 Thread John Shaw
And C is for Checked which is the final state after Submitted. RTFM :-) I guess that is confusing C in reports is confirmed, C in the award flags is Checked. So depends where your looking, Checked in the reports shows as an *. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: DX4WIN

Re: [Dx4win] K1N Logs

2015-02-03 Thread John Shaw
Patience Bill. At the moment they are still trying to get all the team and equipment on the island and set it all up, it's a big job and WX is slowing them down. The log uploads will come, we just have to be patient. It's nothing to do with leader boards been turned off. You will be able to

Re: [Dx4win] mmtty

2015-02-03 Thread John Shaw
If it is any consolation both these issues will be configuration problems. I have used MMTTY and WINKEY with DXWIN through a MKII for years and have 10's of thousands of QSO's in the log with this setup. I'd be the first to admit that DX4WIN could do with some improvement in this area but it

Re: [Dx4win] Tuning indicator with MMTTY?

2015-01-14 Thread John Shaw
Hi Eric, Possibly nothing wrong but the MMTTY window with the tuning indicator you are looking for has a tendency to get hidden. Have a look in your tool bar at the bottom of your screen and see if the MMTTY icon is there, click on it this should bring the window to the top. You will have to

Re: [Dx4win] Tuning indicator with MMTTY?

2015-01-14 Thread John Shaw
Ahh, well yes you do have to tell DX4WIN where to find MMTTY in the box at the bottom of the RTTY tab in the preferences of DX4WIN but I think if you hadn't done this you would get a message saying it couldn't find MMTTY. How you getting on Eric? 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message-

Re: [Dx4win] Tuning indicator with MMTTY?

2015-01-14 Thread John Shaw
...@socal.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:52 To: 'John Shaw'; DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Tuning indicator with MMTTY? Also, there is a preference to leave it always on top. Dan KI6X -Original Message- From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John

Re: [Dx4win] LotW import problem

2015-01-22 Thread John Shaw
Clever! No Problems here done that way either. John ZL1BYZ. _ From: Paul van der Eijk [mailto:pvandere...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 23 January 2015 13:39 To: Art - W6KY Cc: John Shaw; John 5B4AHK; DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LotW import problem Guys, You can do

Re: [Dx4win] LotW import problem

2015-01-22 Thread John Shaw
I also import the LOTW download (with all details checked) into my 8.04 log. I did a check and couldn't find any non K Prefix QSO's with a state assigned. 194803 QSO's in the log. This was my process for checking: Do a F8 filter, K in the Prefix box and a state in the state box, say AL. Then

[Dx4win] Kenwood TS480

2015-01-11 Thread John Shaw
Hi all, Setting up a TS480 with DX4WIN here for a friend. No problems yet, waiting for the power lead so I can fire it up. :-) I have no manual and I see there is no TS480 in the rig list so I thought I'd ask what works for those who have already done this to speed up the learning curve.

Re: [Dx4win] Kenwood TS480

2015-01-11 Thread John Shaw
-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Shaw Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 10:57 AM To: DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Dx4win] Kenwood TS480 Hi all, Setting up a TS480 with DX4WIN here for a friend. No problems yet, waiting for the power lead so I can fire it up. :-) I have no manual

Re: [Dx4win] Updater

2015-03-28 Thread John Shaw
Win7 both said the same thing. Other than that 7.01 seems to be doing it's job just fine. Good job Jim. 73 John ZL1BYZ -Original Message- From: Jim Reisert AD1C [mailto:jjreis...@alum.mit.edu] Sent: Sunday, 29 March 2015 14:04 To: John Shaw Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Updater On Sat, Mar 28

[Dx4win] Updater

2015-03-28 Thread John Shaw
Hi Jim, Just a question about the updater. I just installed 7.01, I see there is 7.02. When I ran 7.01 it said a newer version would be installed next time it was run. I have run it again and it still says 7.01. Any thoughts? 73 John ZL1BYZ

Re: [Dx4win] TXing with MMTTY and PSK31?

2016-02-24 Thread John Shaw
For RTTY try F11 to start and escape to stop. So long since I used PSK31 can't remember if it is the same or not. 73 John ZL1BYZ -Original Message- From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Eric Rosenberg Sent: Thursday, 25 February 2016 17:46 To: DX4Win

Re: [Dx4win] Group filter/selection

2016-02-17 Thread John Shaw
Radi. When you bring up the selection editor window, at the top it says current selection then just below that is a box which probably says All QSOs, at the right end of that box there is an arrow pointing down. If you click on that arrow a list should drop down with all your previously made

Re: [Dx4win] Group filter/selection

2016-02-17 Thread John Shaw
Kar, F6GNZ [mailto:f6...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2016 11:24 To: John Shaw Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Group filter/selection Hi John, This is exactly what I wanted to say: I do NOT find my previous selection at the end of the drop-down list nor anywhere in it, as if I had never made any

Re: [Dx4win] ReĀ : New Computer

2016-03-11 Thread John Shaw
Correct it is as easy as that. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Rhodes Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 12:23 To: DX4WIN Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Re : New Computer Someone please correct me if I am wrong but, I don't

Re: [Dx4win] [DX4WIN] Multiple QSOs Group number

2016-03-23 Thread John Shaw
I thought 254 groups was the limit in DX4WIN? Although having a quick look in the help I now can't find any reference to this. Any how what I have been doing, working with the maybe misguided thought that allocating groups was not limitless I have been re using the same group number for the

Re: [Dx4win] Print QSL Cards

2016-03-20 Thread John Shaw
I have done this. Not sure if this is the best way but here is what I did. I made a custom label the size of the card with nr across 1 nr down 1 Paper size Custom then adjusted the left and top spacing to put the printing where I wanted it. It actually worked quite well with an ink jet, BUT.

Re: [Dx4win] DX4win Updater

2017-01-24 Thread John Shaw
Not sure if this might help or be a red herring but I was almost about to send a sorry it doesn't work. Win7 here. The Microsoft run-time library was not on the computer. My first attempt at installing the Microsoft run-time library failed, I knew it failed because it did not complete. It was

Re: [Dx4win] Help! Lost Packet Window

2017-07-04 Thread John Shaw
On the Screen tab in the preferences there is a check box for leave all windows in original position, tick that then see if you can find the packet window again. It will be there somewhere. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net

Re: [Dx4win] Announce DX

2017-11-11 Thread John Shaw
I have looked too and not found anything to do what you want. I would like all those options in the announce window to stay unchecked too. Maybe Paul could change it so if you uncheck or check the tick box it remembers your selection and stays that way until the user changes it again. Some

Re: [Dx4win] A Minor Issue

2017-11-02 Thread John Shaw
While you can get around the impasse with F10 John's observations are correct in that V9 behaves different to V8 when changing a call and pressing enter used to work. Now it still works that way when changing other QSO information and pressing enter still works in V9 with everything but the

Re: [Dx4win] Upgrade from 8.05 to 9.01 with XP Pro

2017-10-21 Thread John Shaw
I too had a scale factor of 80 and have increased it to 110 to get 16 characters in the callsign box without going into the prefix box. I also have played with the skins. While before I think they used to cause window creep? Now seem to stay put now. Nice. Migration from V8 to V9 has gone

Re: [Dx4win] The effect of the logbook set-up when updating the program.

2017-10-21 Thread John Shaw
Yes Ernie when checking for updates un-check (layouts for logbook window) or it will over write your changes every time. Not sure of the purpose of it doing this, bit of a PITA IMHO but maybe I'm missing something? 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From:

Re: [Dx4win] No Fonts and sizes

2018-05-06 Thread John Shaw
Double click the font box you will get more choices 73 John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of w3...@triad.rr.com Sent: Monday, 7 May 2018 9:15 a.m. To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Dx4win] No Fonts and

Re: [Dx4win] ver9

2017-10-26 Thread John Shaw
If you make this feature available please make it an option in the preferences so it can be enabled or disabled. Unless you can fix the way DX4WIN handles a radio not been present all the time. While it might save one keystroke it will cause many putting out fires because a radio is not

Re: [Dx4win] Importing FT8 to DX4WIN

2018-07-24 Thread John Shaw
Have a look at the first line in the adi file with a text editor, you may find it is blank. If so remove the blank line. Then it will process normally. John ZL1BYZ. -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Carol

Re: [Dx4win] Searching for specific RST does not work in 9.04

2018-04-22 Thread John Shaw
It would be nice if Paul was able to implement a RST length limit and character checking for modes that have shorter RST than what it is now opened up to. Like back to a max length of 2 for ssb, 3 for cw. I'm kind of re training my brain but the number of times I have entered both sent/rec into

Re: [Dx4win] Searching for specific RST does not work in 9.04

2018-04-22 Thread John Shaw
April 2018 9:29 a.m. To: 'John Shaw' <zl1...@gmail.com>; 'David Kozinn, K2DBK' <k2...@arrl.net>; dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Searching for specific RST does not work in 9.04 Hello John, Having the extra length for CW is nice because it allows you to add thin

Re: [Dx4win] Searching for specific RST does not work in 9.04

2018-04-22 Thread John Shaw
-Original Message- From: Jim Reisert AD1C [mailto:jjreis...@alum.mit.edu] Sent: Monday, 23 April 2018 11:43 a.m. To: John Shaw <zl1...@gmail.com> Cc: David Kozinn, K2DBK <k2...@arrl.net>; DX4WIN Reflector <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Searching for

Re: [Dx4win] Check For Updates Won't Run

2018-04-01 Thread John Shaw
: Monday, 2 April 2018 1:41 p.m. To: John Shaw <zl1...@gmail.com> Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Check For Updates Won't Run John, I suspect you already know the answer to your question. Yes, the security is weakened. Using a 17 year old operating system connected to the In

Re: [Dx4win] Check For Updates Won't Run

2018-04-01 Thread John Shaw
So how does that affect security for all of this. Have we now all been put at more risk to satisfy those who want to run obsolete systems? -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Paul Van Der Eijk Sent: Monday, 2

Re: [Dx4win] Exporting SOTA references

2019-11-10 Thread John Shaw
Here is what I do. When I log a sota contact I put the sota reference in the QSO notes field. I have made a report format called sota that has Date, Time, Band, Mode, Callsign and QSO notes fields only. So I use whatever filter is practical to select the QSO's I want to export then I bring up

Re: [Dx4win] Callsign Change

2020-01-25 Thread John Shaw
Use the %f character function as described under "edit function keys" Make a file using notepad with just the call you want to use in it and save it in the save directory. I called mine call and then edited the function keys to look like this: I have done this: CQ|CQ CQ %fcall% %fcall%Use

Re: [Dx4win] Callsign Change

2020-01-25 Thread John Shaw
I may have misunderstood your question and my last message is not relevant. If so sorry. 73 John ZL1BYZ -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ricardo Navarrete Sent: Sunday, 26 January 2020 11:12 a.m. To: DX4WIN

Re: [Dx4win] Unique calls

2020-06-13 Thread John Shaw
Added using a filter selection: Yes there is a way to find the unique calls in your log or filter selection from within DX4WIN. WARNING! If you already have a master call file you want to keep copy and save it somewhere safe so you can re instate it before you do this as it will be

Re: [Dx4win] Unique calls

2020-06-13 Thread John Shaw
: Sunday, 14 June 2020 8:50 a.m. To: John Shaw Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Unique calls John, I think you win the prize for this one. I would not have thought of that, but a clever solution! On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 2:15 PM John Shaw wrote: > > Yes there is a way to find the unique calls in DX4WI

Re: [Dx4win] Unique calls

2020-06-13 Thread John Shaw
Yes there is a way to find the unique calls in DX4WIN from within DX4WIN. WARNING! If you already have a master call file you want to keep copy and save it somewhere safe so you can re instate it before you do this as it will be overwritten. It is the mstrcals.dat file in the DX4WIN save

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