[Dxbase] ARRL SSB contest

Mon Mar 6 15:35:57 EST 2006

Greetings everyone, I just used dxbase for the ARRL SSB contest and I 
had a few observations that I wanted to share with the group. Before 
that, let me explain that I understand that DXBase is not a contest 
program. The reason I used instead of writelog it was because my main 
concern was working new DX and not the contest. Writelog would tell me 
if I worked that call before in this contest, I wanted to know what I 
needed for DX. Also, I am no DXBase expert so if there is a way to get 
the results I talk about please tell me.
OK, here is the list:
1) Need a way to see need for both worked and confirmed. I started out 
with "need confirmed". After a while I switched to "need worked" to 
highlight the ones I still needed after adding 60 new entities. When 
the red started to dissappear from the dx info screen I wanted to switch 
back to "need confirmed" so I can rework any countries that I needed to 
better my chances of a QSL. This gave me more DX to look for, but in a 
couple cases, one poped up that I really needed and got lost in the 
shuffle. It would be convient to be able to see both columns or maybee 
even have two dx info windows.
2) Control dx info scrolling. Many times I wanted to scroll back in the 
dx info window. However, new dx jumps back to the bottom which can be 
quite annoying when you are looking for a old call. You don't want to 
jump if you are scrolling back, but if you are at the bottom, you want 
the new dx to show up without having to scroll down. One solution is to 
only scroll the newline if the bottom dx is visable (already scrolled to 
bottom).
3) Some way to load the call from the Summary window to the QSO log. I 
had to type this each time. There is probably a way to do this.
That is all for now. Some of this may be my own ignorance of how to 
setup dxbase.
Thanks for your time.
Bob Tortajada N6RI (formerly K2ZC)