[Dxbase] Re: Your 3 questions about QSL labels - from Joe WA6AXE

Sat Feb 5 13:34:03 EST 2005

Bob,
I forgot to mention about your very last question --
The logbook will always "log" your freq in Khz .. you
just simply adjust that within the label or list designer
module..
73 Joe wa6axe
Bob Brunius wrote:
> Joe,
>> When I log a QSO on a 3905 Century Club net I need to log the fact that it
> is a net and whether it is a late net or an early net. Then on the QSL card
> there needs to be a note of that information. At the beginning of the net I
> have been turning on the contest option which has a note having the Net
> details. So, how might I accomplish this with the tools that are there?
>>> Thanks for the help on the FREQ vers MHZ. But now I notice that I have
> another problem. All along my auto-fill from the ICOM 765 has been filling
> the frequency field with KHz. That is a 160M freq shows something like
> 1893.13 and a 20M QSO is 14235.21. I have a lot of QSOs. So is there a way
> to automatically remove 3 orders of magnitude from the frequency field by
> doing a script? Perhaps directly in Access? Then the other question is how
> do I get my auto fill from the transceiver to fill in MHz and not KHz?
>> Thanks
> Bob
>>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Glockner [mailto:jglock2 at airmail.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 5:21 AM
> To: brunius at centurytel.net
> Subject: Your 3 questions about QSL labels - from Joe WA6AXE
>> Bob,
>> In regards to your 3 questions:
>> 1) NO - there is no variable for the NOTES field of your logbook
> in the label designer module. It is available in the
> List designer module. The NOTES field for the label
> designer has never been made available to the user. There
> has never been any need for it - up to this point. Jack,
> the owner of DXbase - would have to program this in to
> make it available. You would have to talk with Jack
> directly at support at dxbase.com
>> 2) The COMMENT field's words come from the User Options menu ..
> Go to - main menu - tools - options - user options - and
> select the Label TAB .. that is where you will find the
> "Label Comment" field. Not what you are wanting to use though!
>> 3) With regards to the 1.8 versus 1.95 -- if you select MHZ in
> the label designer module - you will get the 1.8 .. whereas,
> if you select FREQ (and you do have something in the FREQ
> column of your logbook), you will have available "that" FREQ
> field in it's entirety.
>>> Hpe that this helps..
>> 73 Joe wa6axe
>>>>>>