[Dx4win] Group Startup Options

[Darrell Earnshaw]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger D Johnson" <n1rj at adelphia.net>
To: "DX4WIN Reflector" <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Group Startup Options


> Dick Flanagan wrote:
>> At 11:56 AM 6/1/2006, Jim Reisert wrote:
>>  >--- Dick Flanagan <dick at twohams.com> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >> At 11:37 AM 6/1/2006, Tom LeClerc W1TJL wrote:
>>  >>  >And here's a question I could not find an answer to in the groups
>>  >>  >documentation - How do I set a particular group to be the default
>>  >>  >group when DX4Win starts up??
>>  >>
>>  >> Preferences->QSO->Defaults for new QSO->Group
>>  >
>>  >Dick, doesn't that just put new QSOs in the specified group?  I don't 
>> think it
>>  >changes the default group that DX4WIN loads on startup.
>>
>> You are correct.  I want to see all groups, but add new ones to the new 
>> groups.  I wasn't aware I could change the group that loaded on startup. 
>> I apologize if I gave a confusing answer.
>>
>> 73, Dick
>> -- 
>> Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
>> E-mail: k7vc at arrl.org
>
> I think that groups are just another way to sort contacts in a
> particular log. All the groups associated with that log are
> loaded at startup. You can set the group that new contacts are
> added to. This would be handy for separating mobile contacts
> from home station contacts for instance; or keeping track of special
> event stations such as the recent German World Cup stations. If you
> only want contacts from one group to be displayed, I think you would
> have to put them in a separate log.
>
> 73, Roger

Roger,

I don't have DX4WIN loaded on my laptop here in work, but I seem to recall 
that you if segment your log using a 'selection' (dictated by a date 
filter), that selection is active every time you start DX4WIN until you 
manually change it. As I said, I can't confirm this right now.

-- Darrell