Dave, I was off the air for 40 years and have not bothered to enter my logs from W3CMN 1955-62 into DXbase. However, I did enter a few of those old QSO's in order to get DXCC credit for some deleted entities. Yes, I did uncheck "Valid" for the CW Q's. I know the JA on 40CW is a NIL because it was a contest QSO and the Log Checking Report from ARRL showed that the JA did not have me in his log. Very simple.
Unchecking "Valid" removes that Q from the band-mode summary, but I guess Courtney has a point: if I am not in his log, it's not a QSO, so what's the use of keeping the record in my log at all? George W1EBI -----Original Message----- From: Dave Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 10:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: DXbase Reflector 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]
