[Dx4win] Internet Callsign Lookup

[Duane A Calvin]

Dick's response echos my experience also.  F3 to bring up the Lookup
window with response from your callsign database on your PC, and any
manager lookups (I use GOLIST which works great).  Then, with this window
active, hit "Enter" and it will send the same request to QRZ.COM and a
browser window will open and you'll see the info there.  I think this is
documented somewhere, but not sure where.

        73,  Duane


On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:35:46 -0800 Dick Flanagan <dick at twohams.com>
writes:
> 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
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Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas

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