[Dx4win] QSL Method All Messed Up!!!

[Brian Boerner]

ok.. so I'm a dummy. It does change the method. But, is there anyway to 
get it to do what I want it to do? i.e. Find QSLs for awards but not 
change the method, but mark them label Y.

-bmb


Brian Boerner wrote:

> 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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