In the words of Carl Sagan...."You are not alone". I have MANY pre 75 cw qso's.
That's why it's a good idea to check the little previous icon in the bottom of the Summary when nothing shows up. I'm chasing band/mode/entities also. Just passed the 5K worked mark last week. Good hunting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "DXbase Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Cell colors > George et al- > > Perhaps your JA 40 CW is good, but doesn't show up in the summary > as a W or a C. I look to the summary to see if something is needed and > have often not seen the W or C and have in fact the country confirmed. > > I have been primarily a COW operator for nearly 50 years but was inactive > from the mid 70s until the mid 90s. CW contacts made prior to 1/1/1975 > don't show up in the summary window. They do count for mixed, but before > that date there was no CW DXCC award and counted for mixed. I have > no idea why it was decided that the wouldn't be a row in the summary that > showed Mixed. Now we have CW, Phone, RTTY and Digital, but still no > Mixed. My passion is working and confirming band countries. Heaven knows > how many green stamps or IRCs if sent not realizing that I already had a > country confirmed on CW prior to 1/1/1975 but didn't realize it at the time > because it didn't show in the summary. > > I have been a DXB user for about 10 years generally upgrade each year. I > haven't mentioned this before thinking I am probably the only old fuddy-duddy > left who has CW contacts that are over nearly 30 years old and are still the > ones they are using for awards. :-) > > 73 > Dave -N4DB- > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Art Searle W2NRA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "George Harlem W1EBI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 8:39 PM > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Cell colors > > >> Hi George, >> >> You wrote: >>> The >>> trouble with keeping the Q in the log is that it shows up in the band-mode >>> summary, and I really want to know if a box is blank vs. "W" or "C". I >>> found >>> out that my only JA on 40CW was a NIL--bummer! >> >> Not if you mark a QSL invalid. It is then not included in any totals. >> >> 73 >> Art >> W2NRA >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] >
