[Dx4win] Adding Ducie
Hello all, I feel I need to mention a couple of important things to everyone about adding Ducie to the country database. It seems most people are making it much harder than it needs to be. The procedure is covered in plenty of detail in the users guide. EVERYONE should have a users guide. It is installed as a file along with the program, so you can print it out. If you can't or won't print it BUY it from me. Having originally spent the time to enter it here, I find that lots of you would like me to type it all out again in private Emails, which I really would like to avoid. If you have tried and can't get it right, by all means, contact me and describe your problem and we can get it corrected. Most of the problems you all are having is caused by not choosing 'update' after you add information to a specific area of the country editor. If you want to add an new country, choose 'country | add' from the top and enter all the needed information. When you are done, choose 'country | UPDATE', in order to save what you have just done. Because Ducie does not have a unique prefix, but shares one with Pitcairn, don't try to enter anything under 'mapping'. This describes the start/stop date for unique prefixes used by a country. 'Callsigns' is for callsign exceptions. You can enter the information here, as long as you are here, or you can do it from the QSO window. If you do it from the QSO window, when you enter VP6DI it will show Pitcairn. Go to the 'prefix' field and press 'F1'. Locate 'Ducie' and double click on it. Finish the contact if a new one or press 'F10' to update if it's an old one. You have just created a callsign exception record which is the same as if you had done it from the country editor. I mean no disrespect to anyone in my above comments. 73 de Steve, NR4M - -Steve Bookout, NR4M (ex NJ4F) Rapidan Data Systems 'DX4WIN...The way logging programs should be!' Free demo at http://www.dx4win.com
[Dx4win] Modifying the country database
Hello all, As a follow up to my previous message... When you have a DXCC country that doesn't have a prefix which can be used to identify it from another DXCC country, this is how it all works. If you have a call, for example, 3D2LMB, unless you're psychic, you won't know if it's Fiji, Rotuma or Conway Reef. Odds, being what they are, it will most likely be Fiji, so that is the default country displayed when a call like this is entered. If you KNOW for sure that it's Conway or Rotuma, then tab over to the 'prefix' field and enter the prefix you want it be credited to. If you don't know the DX4WIN prefix, press the 'F1' key in this field and you will get the complete list. Double click on your choice. Finish the contact. When you press the 'enter' key, this call sign exception record will be added to the country database, under the 'call signs' tab for that country. In the future, each time that specific call is entered, it will be automatically credited to the country indicated by the exception record, UNTIL IT IS CHANGED AGAIN TO SOMETHING ELSE. If the 3D2LMB operation goes from Rotuma to Conway, again, for example, when you entered it, it would come up as 'Rotuma'. Just go to the 'prefix' field and enter '3D2/C' for Conway, and from that point on it would be credited to Conway, until changed again, if needed. The point is prefixes, and therefore DXCC country credit, can be manually assigned as needed, and is DATE SPECIFIC. For those of you who entered Ducie into the country database, this is why the first time you entered VP6DI, it came up 'Pitcairn'. At that point, you hadn't told the program that it was actually Ducie. If you change the prefix to from 'VP6' to 'VP6/D', from that point on it will be credited automatically to Ducie. If you are lucky enough to work Ducie on more than once, you will see that the subsequent times it is entered, it will show up as 'Ducie' as it should. This type of situation covers ZK1 - North South Cook; 3D2's, CE0's as CE0AA has been used on the different islands in the past; Ogasawara and Minami Toishima; Most of the UN peacekeeping calls and some of the different Antarctic Islands. I hope this better explains how it works. 73 de Steve, NR4M - -Steve Bookout, NR4M (ex NJ4F) Rapidan Data Systems 'DX4WIN...The way logging programs should be!' Free demo at http://www.dx4win.com
[Dx4win] Thanks for your comment, Steve
Thanks for the comment Steve. I am still laughing about it. With the internet it's much easier to ask the crowd than reading a manual. You can be sure that you will find someone who gives you the help without reading. 73 Sven DL8HCO
[Dx4win] qsl labels
Has anyone used the BV program with Dx4WIN to print out qsl labels? I would be most interested in your results and methods. I am getting ready to print out about 5K labels and while the DX4WIN program works fine; I would like to get a little more creative. I downloaded the BV program and could not figure out how to tell it to look for checked qso's in DX4WIN to print out. Thanks ! 73's Cort K4WI Courtney Judd K4WI 2300 County Road 61 Uniontown, Al. 36786 e-mail= [EMAIL PROTECTED] check out: www.59al.org
