[Dx4win] changing my call sign: dx4win questions...

Larry Gauthier [email protected]
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 06:57:08 -0400


Ken,

I did three things when my vanity call arrived:

1. Set a group with the previous callsign - so the group name said "as
WB8BGO". This is very helpful when entering a QSO-in-progress. You can look
in the "same call" window and you can see whether you worked him/her before,
and under which callsign. During the QSO, you can immediately say (or type
or send... ;-) "we've worked 3 times before, twice under my previous
callsign and once under my new vanity call..." or whatever. Don't rely upon
your memory or math skills to figure that out during a QSO... gets worse as
time passes ;-)

2. Modified my QSL label printing comments to say "previously WB8BGO" - so
when I print a card for any QSO, it has this little comment on it. _IF_ this
card  involves multiple QSOs, split between the new and old callsigns, I
will use a highlighter, and highlight the "previous callsign" comments, then
highlight the QSO that involved the previous call.

3. This might sound a little corny, but I entered a new QSO with myself and
my new vanity callsign. I created a log entry on the date I started using my
new callsign. Whenever I'm trying to remember when I switched callsigns, I
press <F8>, enter my callsign, and see the date of the "QSO". (ummm... to
avoid any award confusion, you can press <F5> a few times and enter this QSO
as an "invalid" contact in the "ValidDX" field.]

-larry
K8UT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Brookner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 12:52 AM
Subject: [Dx4win] changing my call sign: dx4win questions...


> I'm making the switch to a vanity call and I've been thinking about how
> to handle this with my log.  I assume that one thing I can do is to just
> partition the  log into a group of the old call and a group of the new
> one.  how about sending qsl card requests--like old ones that I need at
> some point, or answering a qsl request?  I guess the only thing I'll
> need to do is make sure that I don't batch print requests to both calls
> at the same time and then manually change the info printed on my labels.
>
> anyone have any experience with running dx4win and then either changing
> to a vanity call or upgrading and getting a new call assigned?  I'm
> interested to hear how you handled this.
>
> tnx & 73
> kenb, n5lpi
>
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