[Yaesu] Re: [NLRS] RE: QSL Cards

2004年1月14日 02:50:00 -0600

I was asked for a summary of the suggested software, and what I decided to
do, so here it is for all to read. Thanks for all the help, I think I got
this pegged now.
VQLog http://www.qsl.net/ea6vq/vqlog.html
Logger32 http://www.qsl.net/kc4elo/
Winlog32 http://www.winlog.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/winlog/
DXKeeper http://www.qsl.net/dxkeeper/
DXLab2004 http://www.qsl.net/dxlab/
QSL Maker http://www.hfradio.org/wb8rcr/
Printshop Deluxe is another non-ham specific option, It has a postcard
feature, and can produce really nice double sided results with some time and
effort. I like it because you can make really nice designs from the bare
simple to extravagant. Worth looking at if your not limited to free
software.
I have to say that I still really enjoy using my VQLog, and he made some
improvements with the new 3.0a version. Bop over to his site for the
particulars on it. It's nice because you can view your log and select each
qso that you want to qsl individually, they then go into a print queue and
you can print labels to stick onto a qsl card or print an entire card. Not
the holy grail because it doesn't import the listed ham's address info for
mailing, but definitely a huge step forward in my opinion. I was using
VQLog as a trial to make the Grid square maps and other various bits of info
for my web page last summer before getting serious about making my own
QSL's, never would have thought I already had what I needed. I purchased
VQLog as my logging software of choice, but its not yet my QSL card software
of choice.
That award goes to QSL Maker by WB8RCR, I started playing around with it
tonight and I love it!! It can only make one sided cards, but it makes them
quick and easy and you can add different backgrounds and pictures at the
click of the mouse. Definitely nice to personalize the cards as you make
them for different qso's. It works seamlessly with my VQLog, I just select
the qso's I want to qsl in my log as if I was going to print them with
VQLog, which means adding them to the print queue, but then instead of
printing them VQLog lets me export those that I selected into queue to an
..adif file, which I then import with QSL Maker. Done, that's it, just that
simple, QSL Maker takes the .adif file and puts the contact info on each
card.
That only leaves me with one more item to take care of, printing the mailing
addresses. There is two way to do this, and I am starting to lean towards
just printing mailing labels to stick on each card. I made a template which
allowed me to feed the cutout cards through the printer and print the
address's directly onto them in Microsoft Word, but then it becomes a two
step process. First you have to retrieve the mailing address's and get them
into Word, and then you have to print. Someone suggested trying out Radio
Amateur Callbook on cd from the ARRL because of the nice label printing it
does. I purchased the cd last month to help with keeping up on the
addresses I needed to write on the cards. Although I have broadband
internet at home I sometimes take my work with me, so it was nice to have a
portable callbook ready to go. I started playing around with it tonight,
what a breeze!! You just lookup someones call, then hit Ctrl+P to mark that
call for printing, after you have looked up all the calls you need and
marked them all for printing you just print the label queue onto sheets of
labels. I went hunting today and now I use the Avery ones sold in wal-mart.
I put out about 15ドル cash at wal-mart for card stock and labels and i can now
crank them out. I got a package of 150 sheets of card stock, and 600
labels. So know I have the materials to make 600 cards before needing to
purchase anything more. I refill my own printer cartridges so that's no big
deal, I buy the ink in bulk online and save a fortune. The average inkjet
cartridge if handled properly can get refilled nearly a dozen times before
it starts to degrade in print resolution.
I have the new Radio Amateur Callbook 2004 edition, but I did notice that a
couple of locals that I searched for have incorrect addresses listed because
they updated recently. I also tried HamCall that a friend owns, didn't care
for it, it seemed much slower and had a higher rate of erroroneous mailing
addresses, which is odd considering that it receives updates from the
internet. I also tried QRZ from yet another local, their setup is ok, but I
couldn't find anyway to update it and there were some errors. I think that
no matter which software you use in cd form its not going to be as up to
date as QRZ's web page, even if it does have an update feature. So unless
there is a way to keep the QRZ callbook updated, have it phone home, it
isn't any better than the others. Does anyone else use the QRZ callbook
cdrom? Their qsl postcard feature is nice, but I like QSL Maker better.
I now only have one question left. The Radio Amateur Callbook software has
a feature to print labels from a report file. I looked it over and it
simply creates a file named c:\report.txt whenever you add a searched call
to the report in RAC. What I was wondering, is there a way to output a text
file in VQLog or other logging software that is simply a list of the
callsigns, nothing else. The report.txt file is just a list of the calls
you add, so if you can somehow generate that file and then point RAC to the
generated report file you wouldn't have to type in each call to search and
add. That would make printing the labels fast and the cards are fast now
too with QSL Maker.
Did I lose anyone in this long post??
73,
Scott, KB0NLY
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From: "Steven H Sawyers (na0ia)" <[email protected]>
To: "Scott L." <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] RE: QSL Cards
> None of the responses made to the reflector. Could you send out a summary
> of the recommended programs?
>> Thanks
>> Steve
>> At 03:32 PM 1/13/2004, you wrote:
> >WOW, thanks for all the responses guys!
> >
> >I will have to download some more programs and check them out, I got a
lot
> >of suggestions and I intend to check out each one. Some of the logging
> >software suggested is starting to look promising, and I like some other
> >ideas suggested for pulling it all together.
> >
> >To all those who want to hear about the end results, give me a couple
days!
> >HI HI
> >
> >I will post my opinions and solutions soon, I have to go download a half
a
> >dozen apps and try them out to see which I like best.
> >
> >73 and Thanks Again!
> >
> >Scott, KB0NLY
> >
> >
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