Well let's hope you make at least 20,000 days! However, confirmed are good forever, but it's usually not very fruitful chasing cards for unconfirmed QSO's many years past... to many callsign changes and too much of what we'll euphamistically call "turnover" ;-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Borowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mel Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:26 Subject: Re: [Dx4win] The worked and confirmed thread > Mel, Just an FYI, I recently received a QSL card via the bureau from an > Asiatic Russian confirming a QSO from 1982, 21 years ago! I also see cards > every so often with dates ranging from 7 to 15 years old! It never ceases to > amaze me! I keep my DX4WIN date numbers at 19999, which is nearly 55 years. > Since I've only been licensed about 44 years at this time and have > congestive heart failure in stage III now, I think that will likely be ample > to remain as a valid number to go back to the beginning of my first log for > as long as I care about. Never say never! > 73, -=Rog-K9RB=- > #1 DXCC Honor Roll Mixed + Phone + CW, A-1 Op. Club, > 5BWAZ, 5BDXCC, 304/295 on RTTY, 160M DXCC (189) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mel Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Bill Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "REFLECTOR DX4WIN" > <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:08 AM > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] The worked and confirmed thread > > > > The other concern I have is whether there is a problem with either the > > System date or the date as stored in the records. The reason I suggest > zero > > is I believe that this will ignore the dates... and the stations should > > showed worked or mailed status, even if there is an issue with either of > the > > dates. If this works, then an appropriate cutoff should be entered... 1830 > > (5 years) is about the max for any hope of getting a card I would think. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bill Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "REFLECTOR DX4WIN" <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 09:28 > > Subject: [Dx4win] The worked and confirmed thread > > > > > > > > > > If I set the worked and mailed to zero, many of my > > > contacts go away that are not confirmed. Setting them > > > back, both worked and mailed, to 10000 as they were > > > when I first installed Dx4win several years ago, > > > everything is OK. > > > Try setting to 10000 and I bet all is OK. My totals > > > all came back correctly after going back to the > > > original setting. Both worked and mailed > > > need to be there at some large number. 10000 works for > > > me. > > > > > > BILL-W5VW > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Dx4win mailing list > > > Dx4win@mailman.qth.net > > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dx4win mailing list > > Dx4win@mailman.qth.net > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > > >
