[DXBase] My DxBase2005 requests
リystein Stokkeland
[email protected]
2004年1月16日 06:55:55 +0100
In addidtion, I feel very often when I check in qsl cards in the Previous
QSO window, I would like to have a field where I could make comments to
print on the card/label.
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リystein Stokkeland LA7QI
Tel: +47 51 67 70 97 / +47 971 56 090
email: [email protected]
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Ed Parish K1EP
Sent: 16. januar 2004 03:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DXBase] My DxBase2005 requests
As long as there are some wish lists being thrown out there, I have a
couple. Actually I have several, but here are just a couple. The first has
to do with matching callsigns. If I have W1ABC and W1ABC/M in my log, they
are treated as two entirely different callsigns. I suppose this is true, as
it should be. But when I get a QSL card from someone and I check the
Previous QSO window, I sometimes have a problem finding the call. Maybe he
was saying "W1ABC mobile 1" and I logged it W1ABC/M1 one time and W1ABC/M
another time or he said "W1ABC portable" and I logged it W1ABC/1 once and
W1ABC/p another time. When I get his card, many times the / and modifier
will not even be on it. I then have to scroll around the log to find the
time and date of the QSO to verify it. Isn't there some sort of way of
using partials (user selectable) to bring up calls that are close? Like if
I type in W1AB in the Previous QSO window, I might get QSOs from W1AB,
W1ABC, and W1ABC/M.
My other request actually has a couple of parts and has to do with labels
and cards. It may actually be solvable in the current version of DxBase. I
recently received printed up cards from some mobile operations that involved
operating from different counties or grid squares. The first problem is
that there really is no column to list what grid or county or whatever you
were operating from. I do keep separate logs for major operations, like if
I were in another country or state for a while. But if I am operating a
contest like the NEQP or the USCQP, I might only have a dozen QSO's in any
given county and traverse several dozen counties. When I import my ADIF
file, I can use the SPECIAL-1 or SPECIAL-2 field to have my county or grid.
But I can't do that on an individual QSO record. There is no ADIF field for
SPECIAL-1 or SPECIAL-2 that I know of. You can import the Notes field using
the ADIF <COMMENT> type. This might work, however, here comes the other
problem/request. When you design a card (or label), there is no variable
for COMMENT. So, I can not print the QSO NOTE information on the card. Why
can't this field be a variable? To get around this, I attempted to manually
enter this information, using the ASK function. So when a card is to be
printed with a field such as the grid or county I was operating from, it
would prompt me. This works fine when I print one card at a time, which is
usually the case. However, if I am doing multiple cards, I get multiple
prompts (which was the case for someone who sent me cards for a half dozen
counties I worked him in). But I have no idea which card the prompt is for!
Why can't the prompt tell me which record it is prompting for?
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