I've been using DX4WIN for several years now. Before, I had been using the DOS based german software PC-Profilog and the Windows 3.11 version of WinHAM. I'm very pleased with the DX4WIN features, but the programs I used earlier on had a few features which are on my personal DX4WIN wish list.
1) By entering or importing a QSO from a contest software package (i.e. Super Duper and CT), PC-Profilog automatically turned on the QSL label flag when the entered or imported QSO was the first one with that given band/mode combination. If a station had previously been worked in the same band/mode combination, the label flag was turned off automatically. 2) WinHAM (no longer existing) offered you the possibilty of dispalying all worked and/or confirmed grid squares (the complete maidenhead locator, not just the first four letters/digits) on a world map and several continental and country maps. To do so, it put small squares on the different maps. It gave you a nice idea where all the stations you worked were actually located. I agree this just may seem fancy to some of you, but I always found it appealing to see a map of e.g. Germany, Canada, New Zealand or even Belgium displaying all those grid squares one had worked and/or confirmed. 3) PC-Profilog incorporates membershiplists of many clubs. All of them can be easily updated (see http://www.klaussauder.de/f11dat.htm) or altered. The program even offers the possibilty of putting the several membershipnumbers in the "remark record line" when entering a callsign (although this slowed down the program remarkably). Users also can add membershiplist which are of interest to them (allowing e.g. to see immediatly if a QSO is valid for a specific club award such as the Franford Radio Club award or Worked Diploma Interests Group Members award). Like I stated, I'm very pleased with the overall features of DX4WIN, but being an avid award hunter, the above mentioned items just could make DX4WIN even more "the way logging software should be"... 73 de Egbert ON4CAS / N1TOI UBA Award Manager http://www.qsl.net/on4cas
