[Dx4win] QSL printing

[JohnD]

Garry,

I have the same issue with RAC 2004 with respect to getting address labels.
What I do is, is to enter the call in the QSL manager window and then hit F3
to get the data from RAC. I then select the portion of the data I want to
use for the address and copy it using cntrl C and then close the RAC data
window.  Then in the QSL manager window, I hit cntrl E and paste the address
data that I copied previously.  This works, but is pretty cumbersome. If you
find a better way, I sure would like to know about it. I am thinking that it
is this way because there is a lot of extraneous data that comes from RAC
that is not pertinent to the needed address.  You can see this below with
W1AW info brought up from RAC.

W1AW
ARRL HQ Operators Club
David G Sumner
225 Main St
Newington, CT 06111
Coord: 72.731W 41.688N Grid: FN31pq
County = Hartford
USA
----QSL info from: RACCD32a.DLL

John DeRuiter, WM7A
http://members.cox.net/wm7a/



-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Garry Shapiro
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:52 AM
To: John Shelton; DX4WIN Reflector
Subject: [Dx4win] QSL printing


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


See you in the California QSO Party (CQP) Oct 2-3

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