[Dx4win] Pre 1975 CW DXCC confirmations

[Barry]

Paul,
You probably don't remember, but I raised this issue back in the 
early days of DX4WIN about 10(?) years ago.  As I recall, you said 
you'd look into it.

Which reminds me of a joke...
A guy is going through some old pants and he finds a receipt for 
shoes he took to the shoemaker to be resoled.  He looks at the slip 
and sees it's about 20 years old.  Just for the heck of it, he goes 
to the address and to his surprise, the shoemaker is still there.  He 
walks in, says to the shoemaker, "I know I'm a little late in coming 
for these. Do you still have them, by any chance?"  The shoemaker 
says, "Let me go in the back and look."  About 5 minutes later, he 
comes out of his storeroom, hands the receipt back to the guy and 
says, "They'll be ready in a week."

73,
Barry W2UP
Barry W2UP

On 24 Feb 2005 Paul van der Eijk wrote:

> I have been looking at this, and I'm not sure yet how easy/difficult
> this change will be.
> 
> It is interesting to note though that DX4WIN had this problem for nine
> years and it suddenly rises to the top is a critical issue.
> 
> -- Paul
> 
> 
> At 12:11 AM 2/24/2005, J. F. Samuels wrote:
> >I also struggle with this problem (CW QSOs back to 1952), and use a
> >date filter, when I remember to do so.  DX4WIN should be aware of
> >award start dates to prevent the problems with spotting and
> >generation of reports.
> >
> >John, K2CIB
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Farmer"
> ><w8fn at attglobal.net> To: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>;
> ><support at dx4win.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:08 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Pre 1975 CW DXCC confirmations
> >
> >
> >>
> >>>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 ...snip
> >
> >
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Barry Kutner, W2UP              Internet: w2up at mindspring.com
Newtown, PA                     Frankford Radio Club