[Dx4win] member column
Moving DX4WIN to a new computer and I have everything the same except the member column in the spots window - that's the window that gives an L for example indicating LOTW. The column is there - it just doesn't populate. Anyone know how to turn this on? Hal N4GG __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Separate logs and merge
Thanks Mel and also Costos for some interesting and thought provoking info. BTW, thanks to Jim, the answer to the question was/is, you have to be in Expert mode to get groups to work.. 73, Hal N4GG Hi Hal, I have to argue a bit against Jim. I selected DX4WIN for at the time being the only log-program that could handle several callsigns through the group feature. I was and still am the QSL manager for SK0HS, a scout station that changes QTHs and callsigns. We started with special JOTA -calls e.g SM5XAC, SM0XAC, SK0XAC. All of these are easy to separate by date. Then we became a formal clubstation; SK0HS. We were and still are active not only in JOTA but from different camps in different districts within Sweden and we could thus use calls like SK0HS/0 and SK0HS/5. We could in one year be active from 2-4 different locations within the 0 and 5th districts so I used the group feature to separate them; one group for each QTH and callsign, e.g. SK0HS/5 from Vassaro EU084 and SK0HS/5 Hed, i.e. mainland Sweden. I could now use the filter feature to combine all SK0HS/5 QTHs to examine the DXCC status for all QTHs within the 5th-district or look at the whole data set by selecting All QSOs as filter. To use filters is also possible in the example Jim gave with his novice call too, however by using groups and filter it will be possible to separate calls even if they are not used in sequence. So, if just two callsigns are used and they are separated in time with one before the other then it may be easier to separate them with a time filter as Jim suggest but if not I will recommend the group feature. 73 de Mel – SM0MPV 8S0C – Contest Call 2013/8/29 Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu mailto:jjreis...@alum.mit.edu On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Hal Kennedy N4GG wrote: I have created an N4GG log, group 0. And an older WA4BTC log, separate in every way, group 1. First, I would like to name or define group 0 as N4GG and group 1 as WA4BTC. Hal, I'm not trying to single you out, but I'm not sure why anyone needs group #s for multiple callsigns (from the same QTH) in a single log, if there is no overlap by date. For example, I have WN1UHA, WA1UHA and AD1C QSOs my log. I do not use group numbers to separate them. I created three Selections by date that cover the date ranges these calls were used. If I want DXCC status that covers the whole log, I do nothing special. If I want DXCC status for, say, WN1UHA, then I choose the WN1UHA by-date selection. I can always use an F8 search with a date range (over the whole log) if I want to find something particular, and I don't feel like using a group selection. What am I missing, other than the case where I may have made QSOs as WA1UHA in the morning, then as AD1C in the afternoon after my license arrived in the mail? Why do people unnecessarily want to assign group #s to callsigns? How would I then identify just Novice Roundup QSOs I made as WN1UHA, because if I create a new group number for them (that's different from the WN1UHA group #), then those QSOs will no longer show up in my WN1UHA group. 73 - Jim AD1C __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] Separate logs and merge
Hope I am not beating a dead horse. I have created an N4GG log, group 0. And an older WA4BTC log, separate in every way, group 1. First, I would like to name or define group 0 as N4GG and group 1 as WA4BTC. Going over the instructions several times I cannot figure out how to do this. Can some give me a step by step? The Edit Group Names is greyed out under 'filter. I also added a few dummy group 0 QSOs into the group 1 log thinking it would not name groups unless there were two or more. No help. Second, I'd like to merge the logs into one - which seems like no problem. I would like to use the LOTW command to created one ADIF file from the merged log that has both groups included If I sign this ADI file with my N4GG LOTW cert., will the LOTW be able to distinguish the difference between the N4GG and WA4BTC QSOSs based on group name, or number? I can always upload just the WA4BTC into the LOTW under the separate LOTW cert for that callsign. But that leaves me having to maintain separate DX4WIN logs for each call plus merged - not handy...this is necessary so that watching merged file DX4WIN will tell me at a glance what I need and what I don't. 73 Hal N4GG __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] Log for second callsign
Trying to set up a completely separate log for an old call-sign of mine. Starting DX4WIN my call and name are already in [preferences] and can't be changed. How can I enter a new call - same name? Hal N4GG __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN Digest, Vol 112, Issue 20
Have tried everyones' suggestions and not gotten where I would hope. I have no trouble setting up a new log, in this case called WA4BTC.DXL. I can save it and re-open it. But under preferences it still says N4GG and that cant be changed. Is suspect that is locked in via my license? Hal N4G On 8/21/2013 9:43 AM, dx4win-requ...@mailman.qth.net wrote: Send DX4WIN mailing list submissions to dx4win@mailman.qth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to dx4win-requ...@mailman.qth.net You can reach the person managing the list at dx4win-ow...@mailman.qth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of DX4WIN digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: V8.05 PROBLEM (Jim Reisert AD1C) 2. Re: Moving DX4WIN to another PC? (Jim Reisert AD1C) 3. Re: New Band or Mode (Jim Reisert AD1C) 4. Re: V8.05 PROBLEM (ALAN ZACK) 5. Log for second callsign (Hal Kennedy) 6. Re: Log for second callsign (Gerben A.Menting - PG5M) 7. Re: Log for second callsign (Charlie Cunningham) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:02:09 -0600 From: Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu To: Art - W6KY w...@yahoo.com Cc: Dx4win Forum dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] V8.05 PROBLEM Message-ID: cak-n8j4-9two8pbtjfshe3nhu5ekvtcg8tc9k_4mo6en4y6...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Art - W6KYwrote: It sounds like you are just opening the same old V5 log 'again'... Watch what you name your new log and where you save it. Then open that log next time... Save it as a 'save as' and rename it N4TJ-V8.05 as an example. Then when you restart DX4WIN it will automatically open that log. To add to Art's comment: When you try to Open a log in DX4WIN, you'll get the standard Windows open file dialog. Click on the down-arrow (drop down) to the right of File name:. Select the file you REALLY want to open. When saving the log, make sure you are saving it to DX4W805 SAVE directory. - Jim __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Log for second callsign
Thanks Gerban, I have gotten this far. I cant seem to label groups 1 and 2, but as long as they are numbered I can always figure that out later. As a stand along long, I found it troubling that the callsign in preferences was not the old callsign but locked down to the new one. I suppose in the end this does not matter. Thanks for the help 73 Hal N4GG WA4BTC On 8/21/2013 10:21 AM, Gerben A.Menting - PG5M wrote: Hal, To be more precise on how I handle this, do the following. You have your current log which may be called MASTER or N4GG (whatever name you use). Assuming you have the other logbook already in an electronic format, create a new log (File | New) and give it a name (you can use the call sign for that log). Next you have to indicate the group number for the QSO's in this log. Go File | Preferences | QSO, and fill 2 in the Group field. I assume you have 1 for the first log. Next import all the QSO's into this log. Now you can handle the 2 different logs accordingly or you can merge the two logs. To do the latter, take the following steps: First open the first log (MASTER or N4GG in this example). Next: File | Import | and chose DX4WIN8 I/E and chose from the menu File | Import. Follow the next steps to select your file with the second log and import it. Save the log. Now go to the menu and chose Filter | Edit Group Names (look in the manual how to do this) and give a name to the group numbers. In your case 1 is N4GG and 2 is the other call. Once ready, you will have all calls in one log but you can see for which call the QSO is (assuming you have selected group field in your logbook report. Success, Gerben - PG5M -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hal Kennedy Sent: woensdag 21 augustus 2013 15:09 To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Dx4win] Log for second callsign Trying to set up a completely separate log for an old call-sign of mine. Starting DX4WIN my call and name are already in [preferences] and can't be changed. How can I enter a new call - same name? Hal N4GG __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Band Map
Thanks to all for the positive reports on the bandmap. I wonder if anyone has it working or not working interfaced to a Yaesu radio? What strikes me as odd is the frequency readout in the QSO entry box is always correct as well as at the top of the bandmap. The program is reading the radio fine. Any suggestions appreciated. I may change computers and also try reloading the program - perhaps some code got corrupted? 73 Hal N4GG __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] Bandmap - Observations
Thanks for the private emails regarding bandmap issues, particularly on six meters. Here is the info I should have provided: Rigs: FTdx5000, FT1000MP, FT857 - all do the same thing. Version 8.03. I have run 8.05 at times however and it does the same thing. Yes - box at bottom of bandmap is checked follow the radio Polling rate - was 100 mS, but tried 500 mS and 1000 mSall the same; just slower Computer: WIN2KNT, approx 2GHz early Pentium - with nothing else loaded. Runs WRITELOG and N1MM fine, both of their bandmaps work fine. Connected or not connected to a packett node - no difference. I have the FT5K on COM1 and the 1000MP on Com2. DX4WIN lets you switch back and forth. Both do the same thing when selected. The correct frequency is always displayed in the QSO entry box and at the top of the bandmap - the program is receiving the radio's frequency just fine. What I see: First, the bandmap is programmed to start and end at the ham band edges. It does not go into general coverage areas - no loss there, but it creates a problem I had not noticed before I started digging this morning.That problem goes as follows: On any band, if the bottom of the bandmap, by chance, is within about 5 KHz of the bottom of the band, the bandmap will not jump lower to show you the bottom if you tune there. Example: If the bandmap bottom edge is 7005 and you tune between 7000 and 7004.99 you never see the arrow - the bandmap wont make the final jump down if it will have to display frequencies below 7000 to do it. I didn't look at the top of the bandmap, but I suspect its the same. If it happens to land at 7295 and you tune above 7295 you will likely lose the arrow and not see the spots up there. I see this as one problem that's worth addressing, as I need to see the spots in the bottom 10 KHz of the band and at times the bandmap won't go that low. Using the slider on the right hand side can take you there. The bandmap appears to be programed to make approx 10 KHz jumps, or go back to the middle of the bandmap, whichever is smaller. Some examples: If the resolution of the bandmap is very high - say 10 KHz covers the entire map - then moving off an edge makes the map jump such that the arrow is back at the center. If however, the resolution is low, say the map is showing 50 KHz of the band, then moving off an edge will make the map jump such that the arrow is now 10 KHz off the edge, not re-centered. I can live with this, but it would be nice if it always re-centered. My best suggestion is below. Back to my original problem. The bandmap seems to work fine (except for the above) from 160 through 20M. On 17, 15, 12, and 10 it is intermittent in following the radio - even though the frequency at the top of the bandmap always reads correctly. Sometimes the map will jump properly to show the arrow as you move off an edge, sometimes it won't. This is not the too close to the edge issue I mentioned above - it happens anywhere in the band and at any resolution. On six meters it almost never works. Just moving to six meters the bandmap will be wherever it was last on six and not show the arrow. I can use the slider to find it, but tuning off an edge, the bandmap seldom jumps to keep up - although on rare occasion it will. Having the band full of spots or empty makes no difference. I have heard I'm not the only one who has this issue although others report everything works fine. I could try another computer next I guess. If the bandmap code is going to be changed to be able to see the bottom 10 no matter what, then I'd suggest the best way to make it work is as WRITELOG does it and I believe N1MM as well. The arrow is always centered. The bandmap always moves as the radio moves. That way you can always see up and down by the same amount. Resetting the hard-limit edges to 20 KHz above and below the band - slightly into general coverage territory, would fix the inability to see the bottom 10 at times. I'm open to suggestions 73 Hal N4GG __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] Band Map
Is it me - if it is maybe someone can give me the missing tip. I have never been able to get the band map to successfully track the radio other than intermittently. For some reason it seems worse on six meters?? This is with two different rigs. Sometimes it tracks, sometimes it doesn't, for no apparent external reason. All help welcome.. 73, N4GG __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN Digest, Vol 111, Issue 8
I'd like the cross-band calls in my log as well without error messages, LOTW not withstanding N4GG . -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of dx4win-requ...@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:00 PM To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: DX4WIN Digest, Vol 111, Issue 8 Send DX4WIN mailing list submissions to dx4win@mailman.qth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to dx4win-requ...@mailman.qth.net You can reach the person managing the list at dx4win-ow...@mailman.qth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of DX4WIN digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: military crossband calls ...ie : WAR LOTW (Art - W6KY) 2. Re: military crossband calls ...ie : WAR LOTW (ALAN ZACK) 3. Custom label (PY2YP) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:56:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Art - W6KY w...@yahoo.com To: bill steffey NY9H n...@arrl.net, dx4win@mailman.qth.net dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] military crossband calls ...ie : WAR LOTW Message-ID: 1373399768.34949.yahoomail...@web181705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 There is no point to uploading military calls to LOTW as they are not LOTW members. Just nice to have them in your DX4WIN logbook 73, Art? W6KY www.w6ky.com ? .. From: bill steffey NY9H n...@arrl.net To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 6:48 AM Subject: [Dx4win] military crossband calls ...ie : WAR LOTW just? exported ? tried to? upload 181 files , tqsl bumped out the military crossband calls as not amateur calls. they were missing from the otherwise successful upload. how do i get that stuff up into LOTW from dx4win??? bill __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:32:54 -0700 From: ALAN ZACK k7...@cox.net To: 'Joe Subich, W4TV' li...@subich.com,dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] military crossband calls ...ie : WAR LOTW Message-ID: 008001ce7ceb$df6a0870$9e3e1950$@net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Also I really doubt if the military stations would or could post their contacts on LOTW. LOTW would not accept their calls as ham calls. -Original Message- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W4TV Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 7:14 AM To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] military crossband calls ...ie : WAR LOTW how do i get that stuff up into LOTW from dx4win??? You don't. LotW will not accept non-amateur calls - period. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 7/8/2013 9:48 AM, bill steffey NY9H wrote: just exported tried to upload 181 files , tqsl bumped out the military crossband calls as not amateur calls. they were missing from the otherwise successful upload. how do i get that stuff up into LOTW from dx4win??? bill -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:21:13 -0300 From: PY2YP py...@py2yp.com To: Dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Dx4win] Custom label Message-ID: 51dd51b9.1010...@py2yp.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I wish the Custom Label tab has a field to make a note to remember what CUSTOM 1 ~ CUSTOM 5 print. Say: CUSTOM 1: Prints direct QSL #1 and so on. I have three different cards to print directly but can't remember who is who. :-( -- 73 DX de PY2YP - Cesar -- ___ DX4WIN mailing list DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win End of DX4WIN Digest, Vol 111, Issue 8 ** __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] Spot callsign into callsign field
When moving from 8.03 to 8.05 I have lost a function. Packet spots used to deliver the callsign of the spot into the callsign field - I can't make 8.05 do that. All the other data does move into the QSO window - it states the proper country, etc. Is there a menu item somewhere that turns this off and on? TNX 73 Hal N4GG __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] Rig control- FT-857
Anyone successfully interfaced to an FT-857 or FT-897 (same CAT structure). On two computers I can get WRITELOG and HRD to interface to my 857 without problems. DX4WIN doesn't seem to work - it communicates slightly - the computer sets the lock command on the radio, then DX4WIN gives the 'no radio timeout message.' Using 8.03, XP OS. Thanks for any ideas... Hal N4GG __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] Upgrade - Newbie Question
Just starting out on DX4WIN and into my first problem. Sorry to be asking easy questions. I installed 8.03 and have it running fine. If I download 8.04 and install it, it installs in C:\dx4win804, a completely new entity including all the subdirectories, and has no access to my license. I'm sure I could move my license there from the install that's still at C:\dx4win803, but what about all the saved files, etc?. Anyway, I uninstalled 8.04 and reading what I thought were the directions more carefully, I reinstalled it into C:\dx4win803. It winds up creating an entire new entry with all the subdirectories in C:\dx4win803\dx4win804. I give - how do you really do this? Thanks, Hal N4GG __ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
