[Dx4win] QSL printing

[Garry Shapiro]

I have been a DX4WIN user for years, and have logged many thousands of QSO's
with it. However, until now, I have never attempted to print QSL labels with
the program. I am, in fact, more than four years behind in QSLing.:-(

It's time to catch up! I am using ver. 6.03

Since one must start somewhere, I have chosen as simple a starting point as
possible--a single contest log (2003 CQP) imported from Writelog. There are
only 44 QSL's to 32 individual stations to be printed, and all are direct. I
wish to print both QSL labels and mailing labels.

All QSO's appeared correctly in the Print Preview, but there were two
problems.

The first problem encountered was a non-WYSIWYG printer, whose page image is
a bit small. Not knowing how to adjust focus on an HP G95, I have
compensated for this by use of the Custom1 label selection, modifying
horizontal and vertical pitch of an Avery 5160 label to slightly expand the
page image. (If there is a better method, I would like to know it.)

The second problem is the reason for this message--I am not getting mailing
labels. Since all the QSL's are in response to direct mail--no managers--I
have entered each station callsign into the QSL Manager box in the QSO
window for each QSO, and I have checked Print QSL Managers in the
Intermediate Print Window.

I think the problem lies with my  databases. I am using GOWIN Issue 286 and
a several year-old version of RAC,loaded on the hard drive. These display
results when the QSO window is active and F3 is pressed---but the display is
weird. Three windows come up: a GOWIN window with the data, a black DX4WIN
window under it--and a duplicate GOWIN window under that! Closing the black
DX4WIN window also closes the second GOWIN window; closing the top GOWIN
window closes all three.

The entries in the DX4WIN Preferences/Ext Data window are:

Data source: Flying Horse CD ROM
Data directory: C:\RAC
QSL Manager Search/EXE Executable Program:C:\Golist\GoWin.exe
Enabeled box: checked

I would appreciate some help here. Are RAC, GoWin or both damaged, or is
there another issue?

Garry, NI6T


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