[Dx4win] Search for unconfirmed prefixes

[Larry Gauthier (K8UT)]

Joe,

The answer to your question is Yes, there is a way that DX4WIN can assist 
you in locating those new DXCC entities (and also for WAS). It requires 
multiple steps -- but only takes about 5 minutes and is a whole lot better 
than crawling through every contest QSO and looking at the Country window...

PREPARATION
1. Back-up or make a copy of your log in case you completely mess things up 
;-)
2. Use the filter command to examine your log for an unused QSL method that 
will be your search mechanism. I determined that I had no QSOs marked with 
the "$$$$" QSL method - so this is the one I would employ in the following 
steps.

LOCATING THE NEW PREFIXES
1. Select Labels -> "Mark for QSL"
2. In the "Mark QSOs for QSL" dialogue window, set the <Award> = "DXCC"
3. Set the <Mode> method to "$$$$" (leave other Methods blank)
4. Leave the <Weeks> = "0" [my experience shows that Weeks do not work!]
5. Set "Only QSOs after mm/dd/yyyy" to the date preceding the contest. Click 
<ok>
6. A dialogue window will display the number of affected QSOs. [= new DXCC 
entities worked in the contest!]
DO NOT press the <Save> button at this point - you might not want to Save 
the changes you made to your log!

DISPLAYING THE NEW PREFIXES
To see the QSOs DX4WIN has identified as new DXCC prefixes:
1. Select Filter -> Search (or press <F8>)
2. Filter on: Label = "Y", Method = "$$$$", press <Enter>
3. Select Window -> Logbook
You are now staring at the list of QSOs with the new prefixes. 
Modify/set/QSL/print labels/etc as you see fit.

If this worked the way you wanted, press the <Save> button. If it did not, 
close the log without saving. This technique has worked for me after several 
contests. Thanks to Jim Reisert for pointing me in the right direction.

-larry
K8UT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Stepansky" <kq3f at comcast.net>
To: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 17:42
Subject: [Dx4win] Search for unconfirmed prefixes


>I always work some new prefixes in DX contests.  Right now it looks as 
>though I have to go through the log manually, keeping an eye on the prefix 
>window, to determine whether or not I've confirmed the prefix on a 
>particular mode.  This isn't normally a problem, but when you work 1000+ 
>QSOs in a weekend it can get time consuming.
>
> Is there a way I can ask DX4Win to go through, say, my ARRL DX CW test 
> QSOs and tell me which of those QSOs have callsign prefixes that I haven't 
> yet confirmed on CW?  I've read a number of the questions regarding 
> filtering but am not sure any of them pertain to this situation.
>
> 73, Joe KQ3F
>
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