[Dx4win] Confused About Spot Prioritization

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:45:15 -0600

If you are working for 5 band DXCC, try a different approach.  Work every
spot you see that is priority 1,2, or 3.  Turn off the modes for DXCC that
you are not interested in such as digital modes and cw.  Priority 1 is a new
country that has never been worked before on any band, so you need all of
those.  Priority 2 is a new Mode, and for most of us that is a lot higher
than a new band country, so you normally need all of those unless you do not
work a particular mode, which you can turn off in preferences.

Be sure that the DXCC tab in preferences is set for the modes, bands, and
separate band awards that you wish to go for.  The worked cutoff and mailed
cutoff can be temporarily set to 20,000 to be sure that is not affecting the
spots you want. There is also a button in preferences called DX alerts that
affects the spots that you want.  5 Band DXCC normally comes to those that
work and confirm countries routinely on the easy bands, then you spend all
of your time counting the 40 and 80 meter confirmations, then eventually 12,
17, 30, and 160 meter bands.  DX4WIN makes the record keeping effortless,
though.  With LOTW, the time to get the award should be much faster, but the
cost is still high.

p.s. you can change the color scheme of the spots, but I would do that only
as a last resort.  Setting preferences correctly is a much better way.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Stan Staten
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:28 PM
To: DX4WIN
Subject: [Dx4win] Confused About Spot Prioritization

I guess I really don't know how to make the spot prioritization work for
me.  I have the following problems: