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Sat Feb 20 10:23:40 EST 2010

Will do!
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
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On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Bill Parry <bparry at rgv.rr.com> wrote:
> After using DXBase all these many years, I knew that there was an issue
> that
> affected my logging that was my fault but still created a problem. As I was
> operating I would type in the call of a station and hit tab to complete the
> entry. If I found out that I had miscopied or mistyped the call I would put
> the cursor in the call area and correct the call. This is fine except it
> leaves all the rest of the information incorrect, including the country,
> and
> zones. (I know, I know, I should hit the ESC key and reenter but if you're
> in a hurry this takes time and I am absent minded. I had caught myself
> doing
> this from time to time and wondered in the back of my mind, how often this
> problem had occurred. Given the fact that I had 60K+ QSOs there was no real
> convenient way to figure it out.
>> Yesterday, while perusing my "Daily DX" issue I noticed that Bernie
> mentioned a cool website called "Club Log":
>> http://www.clublog.org/index.php
>> I decided to upload my log to this site and see what it had to offer. It is
> real interesting and seems like something that should be done with LOTW!
>> In any case after uploading the file I got back a potential error file from
> the site, identifying the possible errors between callsigns and country. I
> was horrified to find out there were a lot! Apparently the site is smart
> and
> identifies particular stations for particular countries. I found a small
> number of calls that 'I' had specifically identified incorrectly. I double
> checked against QRZ.COM and found they had done an excellent job of
> identifying callsigns.
>> I was thinking that something like this would sure be an asset to DXBase.
> Maybe DXBase could log onto a website and the program could error check
> your
> log to ferret out errors and identify ones that aren't obvious like TO3X.
> (For example I had R1ANF identified as VP8 in some cases and KC4 in
> others.)
>> I guess that my purpose in sending this message is to say that it would be
> nice to have DXBase identify the country/zones based on current call in the
> callsign in the call area and not the "first" call that was inputted. I
> realize that this would require a different type of programming (and I know
> nothing about how this is done).
>> I am currently going through my log and correcting the errors. A lot of
> errors can creep into a log in 30 years. I wonder if it is going to have
> any
> impact on my band/country totals.
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