The first time I uploaded my log to ClubLog I got back pages of "errors". My log goes back to 1977 and most of the discrepancies had to do with the Russian prefixes. They went through three iterations (that I know of) and what may be the correct prefix today was not the same 35 years ago.
ClubLog's database is an iterative process and it needs our feedback to make it better. 73, Dick, W1KSZ On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Fred Handscombe <[email protected]> wrote: > Jack > > That is a very broad and condemning statement with nothing to back it up! Not > even first hand experience from your comment? > > I load my logs to Clublog and find that DXBase makes plenty of errors in > "deciding" which country I have worked. I use the Clublog feedback to improve > my DXBase > databases. To be factual, and not just make a wild claim, most of the errors > are in the Asiatic Russian prefixes. > > If I feel my DXBase is "right" I give feedback, in the correct forum, and the > accuracy of Clublog improves, or I find out I have made an error! Making wild > statements in the > wrong forum helps no-one. > > Clublog's database is being updated almost daily, so something which happened > even a few months back is probably now corrected an it is well worth deleting > an old > log and running it again. > > 73 > > Fred > G4BWP > > >> Message Received: Mar 15 2012, 03:14 PM >> From: "Jack" >> To: "'Bill Parry'" , "'D. Drake'" , [email protected] >> Cc: >> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past >> >> Just throwing out a caution that others have used clublog and discovered >> that it's database has quite a few errors in it. So, if you are using it as >> the gospel, you're probably creating errors rather than fixing anything. >> Just saying.... >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Bill Parry >> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:06 AM >> To: 'D. Drake'; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past >> >> I did exactly that some time ago. I uploaded my log sometime back and >> Clublog "noticed" the errors (among others). I used the error file to make >> the corrections. My point was not to try to figure out if I had mistakes or >> a way to correct them but to mention that it is real easy to make mistakes >> like this! (Usually if a mistake is to be made I am one of the first to try >> it out! :-) >> >> Bill W5VX >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of D. Drake >> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:38 AM >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past >> >> Bill, >> >> Try running you log through Clublog. I think the error report will tell you >> which qso's (by call >> sign) have the wrong prefix. >> >> >> 73, >> >> Dale AA1QD >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: "Bill Parry" >> Subject: [Dxbase] Something stupid that I have done in the past >> To: >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> This is just an FYI regarding a mistake that I was making and it was messing >> up the prefix column in my records. >> >> Sometimes I would hear a station and enter it into DXBase. I do this to get >> the record of whether I have worked the station before and on which bands. >> If I accidentally entered the call wrong or copied the call wrong I would >> correct the call in the callsign column.. If you hit enter again on that >> line it will correct the country that is entered. >> This unfortunately does NOT fix the prefix column and leaves the original >> prefix entered. I suppose this is no big deal but it does screw up the >> prefix totals for the Prefix award. >> >> I am probably the only person that has done this but just in case there is >> another dummy out there you might want to be careful. >> >> >> Bill W5VX >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
