I didn't think this applied to me until I read Courtney's response and was reminded of my own personal tracking method going on here at K2TA.
I am working on my "TA" DXCC. All callsigns end in "TA" (G3TA, VO1TA etc). I have about 35 worked right now. (Hey..its no weirder than collecting lighthouses or counties!). DXBase is tracking that for me as the USER1 flag checkbox. If I decide to go with lighthouses I'll probably use the USER2 flag. I like the fact that Jack gave us extra fields we can use for our own purpose. Just as long as he never assigns those user flags to a fixed purpose that would break my system. Tom K2TA Greenwood Lake, NY ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "K2SNJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DXBase List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Is anyone else interested in tracking Light Houses? > Interesting comments. Yes it is true there are two separate fields special > 1 and special 2. But, within these fields there are up to ten alpha/numeric > characters of your choosing allowed. So, it gives you hundreds of possible > unique entries that you could use for whatever special tracking > possibilities you want. You decide what special coding you want to use in > these fields. For example, if a QSO has some special meaning for you such > as Lighthouse, you could enter LH into one of the special fields for those > QSOs. With this information stored in your QSO record, you could use the > Award module to get some tracking on this. > > You also have a field that allows for a simple checkbox type annotiation > similar to the YL and QRP flags. This field provides for two user checkbox > selections in case you just need a simple flag set for a QSO record. > > You also have the power of the selection wizard where you can extract a > portion of your QSO database based upon filter criteria that you define. > This extract can be used as the input for the Awards module. > > There is also the User Designed Report/list module where you have the > capability to design your own reports and apply some formula logic. Perhaps > this would let you produce whatever tracking you are interested in based on > your use of the special fields to annotate QSOs of interest. > > So in my humble opinion, DXbase already can do a lot more than your comments > suggest but of course it does require some knowledge about these capabilties > that are in the software. But, with any software on planet, it's never > perfect and there is always something that could be added. That's what the > software upgrade process is all about with any product...hihi.... a never > ending process but I don't agree that this means the authors don't care or > don't understand. The trick is to develop those enhancements that will > appeal to enough customers to make them interested in purchasing the upgrade > in order to cover the costs of development that go into making an upgrade. > > Cheers, > Courtney > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "K2SNJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DXBase List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 4:35 PM > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Is anyone else interested in tracking Light Houses? > > > > Yes Bill, I track LH, Castles, Spanish Is. and allot of other award > > tracking. I have had to change to a different logging program as DXbase > > would not support this tracking. Only will allow you to use the two > > special > > columns, but people like me I track more then 10 awards at the same time. > > I > > asked at Dayton about adding it to there next update and he just smiled at > > me. So I don't see this feature anytime soon!. They fail to understand > > that > > after you have DXCC,WAS,WAC etc there are many others awards to track. Oh > > well I will dry my eyes now and stop crying. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "DXBase List" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 3:06 PM > > Subject: [Dxbase] Is anyone else interested in tracking Light Houses? > > > > > >> I'm hesitant to ask for features that have low appeal. > >> Curious if anyone is tracking Lighthouses, Castles, etc.? > >> I'm presently just adding them to the Notes column. > >> > >> such as > >> VE LH170 > >> US LH001 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ----------------------------------------------------- > >> Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. > >> ----------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Bill H. in Chicagoland > >> > >> > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> 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] > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected]
