To all: The information I am using to make the Miscellaneous Award Reports is derived from your NOTES field of your logbook.
Currently, the NOTES field is a "free flow" field of 40 characters. With it being "free flow" there is no particular "formatting" within the 40 characters. Therefore, when I am looking into your NOTES field for the "specific info" that would tell me the QSO "is" a QSO that can be used for a particular Misc Award Report, I "need" to find something that is "static/stable" to "key-on". (1) In the case of the ARLHS Misc Award Report, I am looking into your NOTES field for : LH followed by the "designator/reference number" for that particular Lighthouse/Lightship. The formatting of an example/sample entry would be: LH ITA-026 The above sample is for a ARLHS entry of an Italian Lighthouse. (2) In the case of the Islands_Report.rpt file - using the US Islands Award (USI) report -- I am "keying-in-on" the 3 letters of: USI followed by the "designator/reference number" for that particular US Island. The formatting of an example/sample entry would be: USI ME-21S The above sample is for a US Islands entry of: Mt Desert Island in the State of Maine. The most recent Rptdesc.ini entries I made for distribution with the BIG ZIP file -- shows "examples" of acceptable formatting. These are ONLY examples/samples of the acceptable format. I hope that the above information will help in the understanding of how I make the Misc Award Reports for the DXbase2005 users. 73, Joe WA6AXE
