[Dx4win] QSL Method All Messed Up!!!

[Brian Boerner]

I have some additional information and another question. It appears that 
"Mark for QSL" is changing the QSL Method. Here's what I did:

1. Selected Labels->Mark for QSL
2. Selected DXCC
    Mixed: Direct > 25wks
    Mode:  Direct > 25wks
    Band:   Direct > 25wks

I previously had NO DX QSOs which had a method of Direct unless they 
have a USA Manager. So, after clicking OK it reported that there were 
268 QSOs modified. Then I ran a filter on !K prefix stations with direct 
as the method, and sure enough they were all converted to direct. Is 
this how this is suppose to work? I was under the impression that this 
would only find QSLs and get them ready. What I really wanted to happen 
was for it to find all the !Ks that I have USA mgrs for, i.e. direct 
QSL, and then resend those. I didn't want it to change Buro to Direct if 
I haven't heard from them in >25 weeks. I'll just send another card if 
it's longer than a year. I'm assuming it's reading the date field and 
saying, "Anything longer than 25 weeks, convert to Direct and setup for 
QSL label." This also works the other way around for WAS and WPX, etc.

What I really want it to do is search the log for DXCC with the above 
criteria and mark them as send again via buro, not send again but this 
time direct.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm just having a bit of trouble 
getting this to bend the way I want it.

Please let me know if I'm not making any sense here.

Cheers!
-Brian
73 de W2SUQ/1


Brian Boerner wrote:

> Hi Everyone. It appears my QSLVIA is all messed. I believe that my 
> import from DXBASE didn't work very well. As you know, DXBASE doesn't 
> have an export to ADIF utility built in, so I had to use a third party 
> app to get the job done. After some editing to force the file to 
> conform to the spec, it looked OK to me. However, my QSLVIA is pretty 
> messed up and I'm looking for some suggestions on how to fix a large 
> number of QSOs easily.
>
> Example 1:
> Most of my US stations have the QSL Method marked for the Buro. I 
> obviously want K stations to go direct. I can filter on the K prefix 
> and Buro method, is it possible to now switch all of these over to 
> direct? I looked at the Change QSL Routing, but it doesn't appear to 
> do what I want. It wants to work the other way around.
>
> Example 2:
> Many of my non K prefix QSOs appear to have direct as the default 
> method. Being cheap, I would prefer to give the Buro a shot first. 
> Obviously some QSOs I'll mail a card for with a SASE but that's really 
> only for DXpeditions, etc. I can handle those on a case by case basis, 
> or if a year or so goes by.
>
> So far, the only way I've been able to get this to work is to just 
> apply the filter and evaluate on a QSO by QSO basis. As you can 
> imagine, this is quite a tedious task and very time consuming. Any 
> help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> On a side note, I don't have a printer hooked up to my station 
> computer, is it possible to just transfer the log to another machine 
> and print them from there, or do I also need to transfer additional 
> files?
>
> Thank You.
>
> -Brian
> 73 de W2SUQ/1
>
>
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