Anyone else out there using the microHam CW keyer with DXBase and an Omni 6 rig?
What kind of cable is used for the radio interface? Is it as simple as a cable with mini stereo phone plugs at both ends? Or does it have a 25-pin connector at the radio end? I purchased the keyer for use with my K2, and couldn't get it to work with my newly built KIO2 interface. So, I tried hooking up the keyer to the Omni 6 with just the stereo plug and couldn't get communications with the Omni either. Hope I haven't damaged the keyer. 73, Chuck NI0C From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 14 16:18:09 2007 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Dyer) Date: Sun Jan 14 16:19:00 2007 Subject: [Dxbase] lotw export In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike, Two ways to check your past submissions. Method # 1 Log onto LOTW Click on "Your Account" on the right hand part of the screen Click on "Your Activities" on the left part of the screen. This will give you the file name of the last file that you uploaded and the date it was uploaded. Method # 2 Log onto LOTW Click "Your QSO's" Click on "Most Recent QSO's" The first entry will be the last QSO that you uploaded to LOTW. John AE5B On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:53:35 +0000, you wrote: >I've lost the last date I exported from my log to send to LOTW. My >selections in 2007 reference 2004. My last export was from >DXBASE2006 this past summer. Is there a way to determine the date >from the program? > >Mike > >______________________________________________________________ >Dxbase mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:[email protected] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 14 17:24:10 2007 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Pelham) Date: Sun Jan 14 17:25:15 2007 Subject: [Dxbase] Dazed and confused about green fields, and more Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Today I, for the first time, made a DXCC application (for endorsements) using LOTW QSLs. I'm having trouble getting DXbase to cooperate in this process. I submitted the application using the LOTW Web site. LOTW gave me a list of the 42 QSLs it chose for the award category endorsements I applied for (mixed, CW, phone, 160M, 80M, 40M, 10M). My idea was that then I would go to DXbase and check the DXCC box in the AWARD field for each of these QSLs. This is where my problems began. 1. Some of the AWARD fields are colored green. What does this mean? I vaguely recall reading that this is a feature, added maybe a year or two ago, that indicates at a glance if the QSO record has been used for a (DXCC?) award. But I'm not sure. I couldn't find any information on the coloration of this field. I checked in Help, under Logging | QSO Log Field Description | Award -- no mention of colors. I also searched Help for the word 'green' - no luck. I'm having a problem with this field. I noticed that sometimes when the DXCC checkbox is checked, the field is green, and sometimes it's not. If it's checked but not green, and I click the field to open the drop-down list, it turns green. But if I go back later to check again, it's usually not green anymore even though the box is still checked. Anyway, I dutifully checked the DXCC Award checkbox for all 42 Q's that I just used for my LOTW DXCC endorsement application. Later, I went back to DXbase to spot check it, and I find that eight of the boxes are still not checked. There's no way I missed checking eight. I was very careful. Somehow the checking didn't stick. Most (but not all) of the Award fields are also not green when I first look at them. They turn green as soon as I click on the field to show the drop-down list if the DXCC checkbox is still checked, or they turn green as soon as I check the box if it has become unchecked and I need to check it again. But they don't stay green, and as I said it appears some of the boxes don't stay checked. 2. Even more weird: When I was initially finding (using the Previous QSOs dialog) each of the 42 QSOs to check the DXCC box, I noticed that some of the DXCC Award boxes were already checked as soon as I clicked to get the drop-down list! I don't understand how this can be, as these QSOs were all confirmed only with LOTW and this was my first award application. None had been used for DXCC credit before, and the LOTW Web site confirmed such. (I started to think that maybe after I had been checking a few DXCC boxes, that some super-smart DXbase code was "knowing" that I wanted to check the box and was doing it for me as soon as I clicked the Award field? Somehow I don't believe this one.) 3. One some (about 10 out of the 42) QSO records, as soon as I found the record with the Previous QSO dialog, I'd get an error message that said "The record <> could not be found in the CQWAZ numeric Statistic Table. Updates to this table will now be aborted. Correct your database and Initialize Tables when repaired." I dismissed this error message and proceeded normally since I had no idea what it meant. A quick glance at each record didn't show any problems, like with its CQ zone for example. The second time through, when I had to go back to find the eight DXCC award checkboxes that didn't stay checked, I only got two of these error messages. So, to summarize my issues: 1. What does a green Award field mean? In any case, mine aren't green consistently. 2. Checking the DXCC Award check box doesn't seem to "stick" in many cases. 3. I get the CQWAZ Table error when finding some QSOs with the Previous QSOs dialog. I should add that I initialized tables, and restarted DXbase twice during the time I was checking the 42 award checkboxes. The problems persisted throughout the whole process. Yours dazed, frustrated and confused, John, W1JA John Pelham E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.radiophile.com
