[Dx4win] 6.03 usage report, suggestions for enhancement

[L. Sica]

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Having used 6.0.3 for a bit now, I feel I can make some comments on it. By
far for the most part, it's a good update. Most of what I use of the new
features is the LOTW interfacing features. A little confusing (as has been
discussed on this reflector), but once you understand how to do it, not bad
at all. The DXCC submission now allowing for DXCC challenge submissions is a
plus, too.

DX4Win is the best DX logging program out there. Other programs are slow
(even making my Athlon XP 3000 box seem like it's struggling a bit), or are
SO FULL of things to adjust (I don't want to have to spend an hour adjusting
every font and every color on every window) or so full of "features"
(digital voice keyers, beacon tracking, etc) that they skimp on basic stuff
like DXCC awards submission or any sort of WAZ tracking at all. DX4Win is
fast, it has easy to read windows, and it covers the needs of a logging
program (data entry and reporting) very, very well.

After saying all that, my suggestions

1) A better list of rotator directions for prefixes:
For example. every time I enter a UA0 or UA9 call, DX4Win wants to rotate my
beam to 353 degrees. Problem is, a ham in Asiatic Russia might be at a
heading of anywhere from 325 to 25 degrees from here. A more detailed prefix
list (UA9A, UA9K, UA0Z, UA0Y, etc, etc) would provide a better bearing for
automatic rotator adjustment.

2) A date range and band filter  on the "Change Award Flags" selection:
DXCC cards submitted to "Field Checkers" can't include 160m cards or cards
more than 10 years old. Being able to select these cards right from DX4Win
would be a big help.

3) The ability to IMPORT from a CSV file:
Sometimes, you just want to make changes to multiple items in your log that
you know you just couldn't expect a logging program designer to think of.
DX4Win can already export all fields to CSV. If it could RE-IMPORT those
fields after you did whatever magic you had to in your favorite spreadsheet
program, that would be sweet.

4) A seperate window for "browsing the log" than from "entering data"
This is something I used to have in a previous program some years back, and
I have gotten used to not having it. Still I miss not having to lose the
current entry in my log window just because I want to do a search through my
log to see what QSO's meet a certain critera.

Thanks to all (including Paul) for listening to my suggestions.

73 de Lou AC0X