[Dx4win] Internet Callsign Lookup

[WC7N]

I can't recall how many years that I have been using DX4WIN and never 
realized what you gentlemen have been talking about and now educated me 
about.

WOW it works great.  I get RAC,Go-List and now if needed QRZ.com.  Really 
works great

Rod WC7N

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane A Calvin" <ac5aa at juno.com>
To: <dick at twohams.com>
Cc: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Internet Callsign Lookup


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