[Dx4win] Submission form

[Carter Grabarczyk]

Thanks to all who responded to my inquiry below. Brief summaries of the 
responses (and my comments) are outlined below:

> For CW, your best bet might be to create a date filter (after 01/01/1975) and
> use that filter when you submit your CW entities.  You'll have to do this every
> time, since it sounds like you have not re-worked these entities since
> 01/01/1975 (or they are deleted).

Well, probably my lack of knowledge of the program, but it didn't seem 
to work. I did an F8 and put in 1/1/1975 and it did indeed find all the 
QSOs after that date. I then did "Reports-DXCC-Submission" but it still 
included the 1960s QSOs. Again, most likely my lack of knowledge.

I thought there would be some way to delete the incorrect submission 
report and re-create the report with the new, corrected date (i.e., the 
1960s QSOs having been changed from "Submitted" to "---"). However, this 
bogus submission report seems to stick around like bubble gum on your 
shoe! <grin>

> Why not reset all flags, and then  rerun the submission report?  That
> ought to do it.


Well, this is my second submission (already did it once for "Mixed" 
DXCC) and I'm not sure if "resetting flags" would change all the ones 
that already are marked "Checked". Also, I have over 10,000 Q's in the 
log and don't want to have to manually pick through all 10K. Until I 
understand the reset flags option better, I don't think I want to go there.

> If you don't want to go to this trouble, then line out the bad qso on the
> submission form and DO NOT include the card.  ARRL will get it right and
> send you back a copy of their tab run.

Well, although this is the least elegant solution, it so far appears to 
be the most practical and I think it is the one I will use (unless I get 
a lot more knowledgeable about the program).

BTW, as I said, this will be my second submission. The first was for 
"Mixed" (and just over a 100 cards to get my foot in the door) and I 
submitted it before owning DX4Win. I went into the program after the 
fact, marking the appropriate cards as "checked". This current 
submission will be for quite a few more cards and for bands and modes; 
also, I will be going to a local checker rather than mailing them to the 
ARRL.

Thanks again to one and all for the comments! And I really do think 
DX4Win is still the best logging program out there, the occasional quirk 
and/or lack of operator expertise aside...

73/Carter/K8VT




Carter Grabarczyk wrote:
> Fellow DX4Win users,
> 
> I'm getting ready to submit for CW and RTTY DXCC, so I printed out the 
> "Submission" under DXCC-Reports in version 5.03. It seems I have 
> discovered two problems (or at least problems to a DX4Win beginner like 
> me).
> 
> First, I "F2ed" some contacts to submit for mode that were made in the 
> 1960s. As I later found out, you cannot use contacts made before 1975. 
> This is only a very minor problem, but I'm wondering why the software 
> let me do it.
> 
> The other problem I have is one I am a little more concerned about. I 
> went back to the old QSOs, and then changed the "Submitted" choice under 
> "mode" back to "---" and then saved and exited the program. Upon going 
> back into the program and viewing the submission report, I see that 
> these pre-1975 contacts are still listed in the report.
> 
> Short of manually editing with a word processor (and getting the numbers 
> out of sequence), how can I "refresh" the submission report to delete 
> those pre-1975 QSOs?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have,
>