[Dx4win] Filtering and DXCC Award Submission

[Cliff Ahrens K0CA]

Hi Bill and Michael.  Sometimes no responses just means no good answers.  I
don't know a good way of accomplishing selecting QSO's on a "first
confirmed" basis in DX4WIN.  But I can think of two "work-arounds".

The first, and easiest, that I can think of, would be to just manually mark
the 293 QSO's you have cards selected for.  Do an F8 search for each QSO,
and then mark the appropriate DXCC box as Submitted.  For the future, when
you confirm a QSO that's a new one for a DXCC or other award, and you pull
the QSL card to put in the stack of "to be submitted" cards, go ahead and
mark that card as "Submitted" in DX4WIN at the time you put the card in the
separate stack.  The program first chooses whatever cards you have manually
marked.  That should solve the problem for the future.

The other "work-around", which is less than efficient, would use an
"earliest QSO" basis for a year at a time.  You could create selections by
year, starting with the earliest year, based on the QSO Date field.  Then
run a submission for the earliest year.  Then create another selection for
the first two years, and run a submission.  Then for the first three years,
and run a submission, and so on until you have one final submission that
covers all the years.  Each submission would include the previous years, but
since the cards from those years for DXCC submissions would already be
marked as submitted, only additional cards from later years needed for new
entities would be marked submitted.

It would take some time if you have been licensed a long time, and it would
only be approximate, since it would be based on QSO date rather than
confirmation date, and would only be accurate to the nearest year.  And it
would probably take longer than just individually marking the 293 cards.

Hope this helps.

73, Cliff  K0CA