[Dxbase] ARRL SSB contest

Mon Mar 6 16:18:06 EST 2006

boy, this one is going to take some doing.
first off, as a dxer/contester, your trying to do to much.
but I do pretty much the same thing but with a different way.
One, use a CONTESTING PROGRAM on one monitor
and, use DXBase on a second monitor
(dual monitor card or even a second computer)
Use ARUser to set up you filtering on contest cluster node so contest program only get 
bands/modes you want.
Run DXBase to a different cluster, (or same cluster node and change your call with a CSID 
that is different that other connection) and set DXBase to alert only band/modes/countries 
you want.
Keep the Internet Cluster window small and the DX Info window BIG.
Hopefully your running DXB2006 and you can set the Internet Screen Update option to 'DX 
Info Window'
Using this system last weekend and concentrating on 160, 80, & and just a bit of 40, I 
picked up 12 new band/modes.
DXBase monitor or computer would tell me when it was a new band/mode I needed to confirm.
Then I'd look at contesting program, find the station in the bandmap which would tell me 
if I'd worked him already or not.
as for switching back and forth between 'needed all time' & 'need to confirm', don't do 
it.
just work them all when the opportunity is there, the first guy you worked will be one of 
those 'work everybody but never qsls' and you will have missed the good guys who do.
Now I'm sure you have questions, if so email me and I'll send my phone number.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Tortajada" <k2zc at rtort.com>
To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 2:35 PM
Subject: [Dxbase] ARRL SSB contest
> 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)
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