[Dx4win] QSL Managers

[Alan Zack]

Yes, Jim, that is EXACTLY what I wanted to do.
Thanks so much for the procedure.
While following your instructions it became apparent that the ability 
to perform the task I asked about was in the program's capabilities 
all the time.  I just didn't have the insight to figure it out on my 
own.  DX4WIN is indeed a powerful program and I am constantly learning 
something new all the time.  I do apologize that I need some 
hand-holding from time to time to figure out just how to do something 
that I can't figure out on my own and can't seem to be able to find 
the information in the manual, such as clicking on the AUTOMATIC 
UPDATE option in the F3 window when updating.

Thanks again for all the help and support.  I am amazed that not only 
were you able to answer my problem but also revised your DX4WIN web 
pages to show others how to do this.

For those not following the question it went like this.  I will use 
5H9KR as an example:
You log a new DX Contact, such as 5H9KR.  While logging this contact 
DX4WIN shows VU2RKS in the QSL MGR slot.  However, my F3 window (QSL 
data from QRZ.COM and GOLIST) shows KF9TC as the QSL Mgr.  So I 
replace VU2RKS with KF9TC in the logging window and using CTL-E add 
KF9TC's address to enable printing an address label.  But the next 
time you would update the COUNTRY file all the info concerning KF9TC 
would be written over and the incorrect VU2RKS would again appear as 
QSL MGR so when you went to do a follow up on how long you have been 
waiting for the card it would show you sent it to VU2RKS and not KF9TC 
as you did.  This happened to me on over a 100 entries when I went to 
7.0.  Luckily ver 6.04 still had all the correct info so I was able to 
retrieve the QSL MGR data and addresses from 6.04 and merge them with 
7.0.  This interchanging of QSL Mgr info has been going on forever but 
I did not realize it until doing some follow-ups on cards I have been 
waiting to receive back for quite awhile.

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:

> --- Alan Zack <k7acz at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I want to be able to update the Country 
>>prefix files WITHOUT wiping out the QSL MGR data I manually entered, 
>>but when you update a Country file it downloads the DX4WIN QSL MGR 
>>data base over what you have manually entered yourself over the years.
> 
> 
> My instructions cover how to extract your "old" managers and populate them into
> the new country file:
> 
>   http://www.ad1c.us/dx4win/#QSL
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C
> 
> 
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
> USA +978-251-9933, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
> 
> 

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Alan Zack
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