[Dx4win] Pre 1975 CW DXCC confirmations

[PY2YP]

I second your posting.

73 DX de PY2YP - Cesar
www.py2yp.ws
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Farmer" <w8fn at attglobal.net>
To: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>; <support at dx4win.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Pre 1975 CW DXCC confirmations


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| >I started this thread so I'll chime in a bit more.  It seems to me that
| >all the responders so far (including Rapidan thru some private emails)
| >have agreed that processing pre 1975 CW confirmations is a problem with
| >DX4WIN.  Some suggestions have been offered to circumvent the problem
| >but all suggestions have required some manual manipulation either with
| >the data itself or the DXCC reports or both.  Since this is a known
| >deficiency might it be better to develop some ways to change the DX4WIN
| >internals such that no manipulation is necessary?
|
| I've used DX4WIN for several years as my sole general logging program and
| still think it's the best of the lot. But... it's maddening that doing a
| DXCC CW report is guaranteed to give erroneous results if your log has any
| CW QSOs prior to 1975. (My log has hundreds of them dating back to 1964.)
| It's never been clear to me why a program that can instantly retrieve IOTA
| designations from an external file can't use a similar technique to filter
| for DXCC award purposes. Shortly after I began using Version 4, I recall
| Steve replying to my query about why it couldn't pick up DXCC-eligible CW
| contacts to the effect "we can't possibly know the cutoff date for all
| awards." I would submit that DXCC CW is popular enough that an exception
| should be made for at least this one case.
|
| I handle picking up DXCC CW stats by putting all my post-1975 CW contacts
| in a group I call "CW Eligible" and filter for this group prior to
| generating CW stats. It's a clumsy workaround, but it does get the job
| done. This functionality really should be built into the code. I hope we
| can get enough users to clamor for this long-overdue feature that it will
| be built into succeeding versions.
|
|
| 73...
| Randy, W8FN
|
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