[Dxbase] another wish list addition

Fri Feb 23 16:00:08 EST 2007

Me too. I'm using the Special-1 for the name of the contests. I should
say that 10 characters is quite a small number for that. And of course
that field is lost for any other purposes that should be applied by
sorting some data for some home made reports and so on. That's a pity.
Kind regards and 73! de Sergei UX1UA aka UV5U, EN1U
ux1ua at qsl.net Logs and photos at www.qsl.net/ux1ua 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim McDonald
> Sent: Friday, 23 February, 2007 18:22
> To: FireBrick
> Cc: DXBase List
> Subject: RE: [Dxbase] another wish list addition
>>> I use one of the Special fields for that. 
>>> Jim N7US 
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> I'm trying to do some data mining.
>> And I find that I need yet another Column field.
> I need a 'CONTEST' field.
> I'm trying to find a pattern of 'who' operates which contest, 
> and which 
> bands and how easy it is to log that muliplier. and of 
> course, DO THEY QSL?
>> Presently, when I import contest .adi logs into my logbook, I use a 
> convention for naming contests.
> But that puts that 'contest name' into the Notes field, 
> making that field 
> useless for other data.
> My convention is normally:
> year, official contest name, mode;
> 07 CQ 160 Meter Contest SSB
> 07 Missippi QSO Party
> etc.
>> I don't need the names of the contest in a drop down menu, 
> far too many for 
> that.
>> I'm probably the only person who wants this field.
> I don't need a 4 digit year...doubt I'll be doing much 
> contesting in 2107. 
> <lol>
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