[Dx4win] Pre 1975 CW DXCC confirmations

[N5TY - Ken]

Unless you are counting them for the mixed award you can mark the QSO as 
invalid and it will not show in the totals

73s

Ken
N5TY
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Jaksa" <dave.jaksa at verizon.net>
To: "'JerryVan'" <jerryvan at sssnet.com>; <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>; 
<support at dx4win.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 23:55
Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Pre 1975 CW DXCC confirmations


Jerry has a good point.  I have a couple of countries confirmed with pre
1975 CW QSLs and no post 1975 CW QSLs.  DX4WIN shows those 2 countries as
confirmed on CW but DXCC doesn't count them.  Don't know how many of us
there are with pre 1975 CW cards but, unless I missed something, DX4WIN does
not handle them correctly.

73,
Dave, W0VX

-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of JerryVan
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:11 PM
To: dx4win at mailman.qth.net; support at dx4win.com
Subject: [Dx4win] Pre 1975 CW DXCC confirmations

I am a relatively new to DX4WIN and am happy with most of the functions it
provides but I am quite frustrated with the lack of support for CW
confirmations prior to 1/1/1975.  This is the official start date for CW
DXCC.  CW confirmations prior to 1975 count for the DXCC Mixed and Challenge
awards but are not valid for CW DXCC.

Mainly due to some long duration lapses in my amateur radio activity I have
a few CW confirmations prior to 1975 for current countries that have not
been re-worked since then.  Also I have a number of CW confirmations for
deleted countries worked prior to 1975 but have not been electronically
recorded at the League.  In both cases these confirmations are valid for
overall totals, the mixed award, and the Challenge award but not valid for
CW DXCC.  Since DX4WIN is not sensitive to the CW DXCC start date a number
of DXCC reports are not accurate including the Listing, Needed, Summary, and
Submissions reports.  The only solution that the product seems to offer is a
Selection filter which can be set to 1/1/1975.  But setting a selection
filter in this manner generates inaccurate reports also since all
confirmations including Phone, Mixed, and RTTY are erroneously filtered.
The Selection filter is not sensitive as to mode.  Further, when generating
a Submissions report some of the Subm flags are set erroneously, i.e. the
mode flags are set incorrectly and in some cases the Mixed flag is not set
correctly.  I have not used the spotting functions yet but I would guess
that users are not alerted to spots for those countries which DX4WIN
incorrectly assumes are already confirmed but, in fact, were CW contacts
confirmed prior to 1975.

With all of the functionality and automation incorporated into DX4WIN is
seems a shame that a user cannot receive accurate DXCC reports and needs to
cross check a number of reports with some head scratching to understand
his/her DXCC status.  In my opinion, it would be a worthwhile effort to
incorporate the CW DXCC start date into the product.  If completed it might
be a good idea to allow the user to determine whether or not they would like
this support by a setting in the Preferences file.

Am I missing something here or are there others who would agree that DX4WIN
should more fully support CW DXCC?

Jerry  N8BM

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