[Dx4win] Auditing your QSL Status

[ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx]

When you ask about "easy" ways to check your QSL
status, it becomes obvious that easy is a relative term.

Right now, I am pursuing several awards, and I'm using
the group/groupname feature to make this a little more
cost effective for me.

Rather than use groups for location, equipment, etc,
I set them to awards of interest.

0. All QSOs in File, a surpressed groupname string.
1. New DXCC
2. New DXCC CW
3. New DXCC SSB
4. New DXCC 160m
...etc...

I use twenty numbers now, including "Our Recent QSO",
"ur Special Event Station" and "New IOTA".  That I could
easily expand if I cared to track each band/mode discretely
but I don't.

Also, I've standardized my QSL Method values, so that I can
search on USA Managers (using QSLsvc) and make the
foreign QSL Method either Direct or BURO.

Then I went through a DXCC report, clicking on the ones
that I need.  By using F! in the QSL/Group field, I was able
to go through a few thousand QSOs in not-too-long a time.

When the QSL arrives, before I set the confirmed flag, I
be sure to cancel any conflicting "new ones" by setting their
group to zero or the appropriate alternative.  For example,
if I had it set to "New DXCC 17m" and a 17m SSB arrives,
any 17m SSB go to zero, but 17m CW goes to "New DXCC band/mode".

Periodically, I can check what I'm looking for for each band, or mode,
or whatever I've set the group number to.

This makes logging the received cards a little more work,
but it really helps me keep on top of what I need and where
the cards are.

I hope this helps or gives you some ideas to try.

I'd love to hear any others.

73, Byron