[Dx4win] How much QSL manager data is useful?

[Kostas Stamatis SV1DPI]

I like the qsl manager database. Jim knows that i try to correct it where it 
is wrong and if anyone did this in every release of cty file, the database 
would be more accurate.
The only problem i have is this....
i send a qsl to xxxxx qsl manager.
dx4win changes this manager in a next release with the yyyyy manager
I would like to know  where i have sent my qsl because now i loose the 
information where i have sent my card (for the direct cards i keep a paper).
I look the managers for new ones very carefully ofcourse but i don't think 
we are all so carefully and double check the contest qsos for example. After 
a contest it is usual for me to import the adif file from writelog to dx4win 
and when i send cards to buro, check the labels for the unconfirmed bands 
and modes and print. But i don't look so carefully all the cards. So the 
most important is the accurate infos. But if the infos are accurate, i don't 
care if they are old... The problem with the old infos is that usually are 
not ok.... So we must try harder to remove the innaccurate infos and not the 
old ones.
Kostas SV1DPI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RJD" <nj9k at wi.rr.com>
To: <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>; <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:32 PM
Subject: RE: [Dx4win] How much QSL manager data is useful?


> Jim,
>
> How about some type of archive file with the older 10 years data??  First
> selection would be the current less than 10 years.  Second selection would 
> be
> the archive file older than 10 years for those hunting for old qsl info?
>
> Dick, NJ9K
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
> Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 18:34
> To: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] How much QSL manager data is useful?
>
> Thanks for all the comments so far.  Some common themes are emerging:
>
> - Quality is more important than quantity
>
> - Data going back more than 5 or 10 years is not very valuable
>
> - No one seems to rely on the DX4WIN data by itself, they usually
>  confirm it themselves using another source (like GOLIST or QRZ.COM)
>  before sending off the card.
>
> Going forward (after the next release), I'll probably start limiting the 
> list
> to the most recent 10 years worth of data.  I somehow need to distinguish 
> older
> one-time operations from stations that have had the same manager for more 
> than
> 10 years.
>
> 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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