Ron- Yes I have run into this and once brought it to the attention of Jack at Dayton several years ago. I have DXCC Mixed, SSB, CW, RTTY and all bands 160-10. When I submit cards to ARRL I want endorsements for each category. If I go to DXCC Awards Submission and check all bands 160-6 plus all modes all band/contacts are correctly identified and both CW and SSB modes QSOs are found. RTTY however are not correctly picked up unless they happen to be for a new band. Before I make a submission I run it with everything checked and have those QSOs marked as having been submitted. I then run it again and check only RTTY. I print both QSO forms and cut the RTTY QSOs from the print out and paste it to the end of the other. I keep this for my records and Xerox it to send to ARRL. The RTTY contacts at the end are not where they should be on the form, but compared to those who do the whole process handwritten the ARRL gladly has accepted mine.
I know when I talked to Jack I probably confused him, especially with all that is going on at Dayton. I think he looks at things from a different angle and is always trying to figure out what we are doing wrong and assumes that DXbase does it correctly. It's easy enough to live with but would be nice if it gets fixed. 73 Dave -N4DB- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Stordahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DXBase" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: [DXBase] DXCC report generation puzzle.... > I am working on a 160 meter DXCC submission. Remembering that I had worked > FO0AAA on both CW and SSB on 160, I was looking for that to show up on the > QSO list generated by the DXCC Award Submission QSO form. > > 1) If I select just 160 as the award type, then FO0AAA (Clipperton) shows up > only on CW on 160. > 2) If I select 160 plus MIXED, then FO0AAA shows up only on CW on 160. > 3) If I select 160 plus CW, then FO0AAA shows up only on CW on 160. > 4) If I select 160 plus PHONE, then FO0AAA shows up only on PHONE on 160. > 5) If I select 160 plus CW plus PHONE, then FO0AAA shows up only on CW on > 160. > 6) If I select 160 plus MIXED plus CW plus PHONE, then FO0AAA shows up only > on CW on 160. > > What I was expecting to do was to generate a single report, by selecting "5" > or "6" above, which includes (among lots of other Q's) both my CW and Phone > 160 FO0AAA Q's on a single report. There appears no combination of types to > do this which will produce this result. > > If you want to select everything DXCC awardable its necessary to run the > module 3 (and perhaps 4) times, one each with CW, Phone and RTTY and maybe > Mixed, all with all bands selected (160 thru 10). I do not object to > running it multiple times..in fact that is probably the way it should be > done, after all there is no Mixed+RTTY, or Mixed+CW+Phone award. Based on > modes there are in fact 4 awards. Still I would have expected that by > selecting all modes that both Q's would have been included. > > It seems to me that the way the awards module currently works, it would > reduce confusion to NOT allow the user to select more than one type (Mixed, > Phone, CW, RTTY) at a time for the reason that the result of selecting more > than one type at a time (the way the module currently works) produces > unexpected results and could result in not submitting all of one's confirmed > band-modes. > > Ron N5IN > > > > > . > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
