[DXBase] DXCC Valid status

2002年9月23日 09:17:49 -0700

At 02:56 PM 9/22/02 -0700, Jim McDonald wrote:
>I had used various other methods (e.g., Excel) of tracking which cards I'd
>submitted for the various DXCC awards, but am now checking off the DXCC
>boxes in the Award column for cards previously submitted. (I am submitting
>for the first time for the newer, single band awards as well submitting a
>couple of cards for endorsements for Mixed, Phone, and CW.)
>>The help file on DXCC Award Process Overview says that QSOs prior to 1975
>are not eligible for band/mode awards. In reading the DXCC rules, the only
>1975 restriction is for CW DXCC; all of the single band awards go back to
>11/15/45, so the help file doesn't seem correct.

You are correct.
On Oct 3, 2001, I wrote to DXbase Headquarters the following:
"In my reading of the help file while trying to figure out the problem
reported before, I saw the following:
"Remember that QSOs prior to 1975 are not eligible for band/mode awards.
DXbase automatically marks these QSOs as not Valid for the mode when you
log the QSO record. Therefore, these QSOs will not be selected by DXbase
when you request a specific mode award such as CW."
I believe that this is somewhat misleading. "Phone" seems to me to be a
"mode"; there is after all a phone DXCC. QSOs prior to 1975 are most
assuredly valid for the phone DXCC as well as band awards.
Maybe a clarification in the next rev?"
Apparently, it didn't take.
>>I'm confused about the Valid column and its Mixed and Mode boxes. I only see
>whether the two boxes are checked for a given QSO by clicking on the Valid
>column, so I was surprised to see lots of old QSOs with both boxes
>unchecked. Did I do that on an old import? Doesn't that mean they won't be
>selected for a DXCC submission?

Don't know how it happened but if they aren't checked, they won't be
selected. And, if you manually check the select boxes, you must remember
to initialize tables before trying to do an award.
Wes