[Dx4win] Internet Callsign Lookup

[Dick Flanagan]

At 03:02 PM 2/21/2006, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
 >I think you have to hit F3 twice.  I was going to write an application note
 >about this, but just have not had time.

My experience is this:

Let's say you have three sources of information:  (A) local call sign 
lookup on a CD or local disk; (B) QSL manager lookup on a local disk; and 
(C) Internet access to call sign information on QRZ.com.

Hitting F3 while in the logging window will bring up a window showing the 
results from (A) and (B).  If you then hit Return, it will bring up your 
browser that will display the results from (C).

What I gather from this is that DX4WIN cannot extract data from the QRZ.com 
web site, but it can from known-format databases on your local 
system.  This makes sense when you think about how difficult it would be 
for DX4WIN to duplicate the HTTP functions necessary to access a web site 
and then to parse through all of the web site noise to actually identify 
where the name and address are.  What it can do, however, is invoke your 
browser and direct it go to QRZ.com to display the appropriate call sign 
information for you to interpret.

What I do is use both QRZ.com and GOLIST databases on my local computer and 
then call up QRZ.com on the Internet to look for any last minute changes.

73, Dick


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Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
E-mail: k7vc at arrl.org