[Dxbase] Grid reports discussion

Mon Jan 11 22:17:55 EST 2010

Jon, I wish you hadn't said that because I was thinking I was wrong. 
:))))) Interesting.

Jon Casamajor wrote:
> Steve, 
>> I guess I hadn't looked very carefully at the VUCC Grids-Status report, but
> I think you are correct. If you have worked 10 stations in BK29 and received
> confirmations from 9 of them, the confirm column shows NO Cfm yet in Red and
> the other Q's that have been confirmed show grayed out, very faint, while
> the ones that are confirmed show in bold black. (at least in my set up)When
> I have all the Q's in one grid confirmed the confirm column goes bold Green
> and the Grid column goes bold green also. I'll also add an "I think" as a
> caveat. 
>> So if I choose to only request one card from BK29 and only need one for that
> band, the report seems to think I should QSL all of my Q's in that grid
> before reporting it as confirmed. Those Q's may have been made in several
> contests or openings so when I log them, I'm not really expecting to QSL all
> of them. 
>>>>>> N4JQQ wrote>>>
>> 1. Grids listed for a particular band under "worked, not confirmed," 
>> that I have confirmed and marked as such in my log. I think. Notice I
> always place a caveat. Right Joe??????? If this is the case, is the report
> showing the grid not confirmed because there are other QSOs in the same grid
> that you didn't confirm.
>>>> If someone could confirm my findings, I would appreciate it.
>>>> 2. If you were doing a search to see what grids you might have worked that
> were not confirmed, is there anyway to link them up with the QSO so you
> could go back to it and send or resend the QSL card????????
>>>> It has been a LONG time but I used to run reports in the DOS version and for
> some reason I'm thinking they were linked to a callsign. I think.
>>>> Steve, N4JQQ, EM55, 6,2,222,432,902,1296
>>>>>> Regards,
>> Jon-K6EL
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