[Dx4win] Multiple QSOs change on QSO NOTES - Group Numbers

Sun Feb 17 02:54:50 EST 2008

Hi Bill

It looks like a matter of opinion; I have 6 years of GD contest logs to QSL manage (85000 QSO's with MD4K alone); so a sizeable job.  We have used 2 QTH's; so I set each group for the location (locator). This is printed automatically on the card. 

I usually just search on call; if I don't get a match, I will then search by band, and month of the contest, so I get to the same place as you pretty easily to do a closer search (as you say, different contest calls etc !!)

Thor Suggested using selections, I had a quick look yesterday, but couldn't work out how to use it properly. I will look more closely later.

73

Dave
G3NKC

-----Original Message-----
From: AC0W [mailto:ac0w at charter.net]
Sent: 17 February 2008 05:55
To: Dave Sharred; John Balsillie; dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Multiple QSOs change on QSO NOTES - Group Numbers

Dave,

I primarily operate contests. Each contest I work is assigned a group number. So using F8 and the Group Number I am able to isolate all the QSO's from a particular contest.

One of the advantages of this is for QSL request when I am unable to find the claimed contact by searching on the other station call sign. Then I am able to at least narrow down the log to the contest and search through that.

There are many different reasons for not finding the call in my log, from miscopied on my part or needing to decipher the call on the QSL call that was used during the contests.

By narrowing the log down to the specific contest I have been successful in either finding these contacts or verifying they definitely are not in the log.

Sure I could search by date and time, but those aren't always correct either. Then if the request is from 15 years ago the search on time & date will bring up 15 years of contacts.

Hope this helps,
Bill
AC0W

---- Dave Sharred <g3nkc at md4k.com> wrote: 
Hi All;

I maybe missed the point, but I really wonder what you guys are doing to even think about running out of Group numbers.

I don't understand anyone's need really to group by year or by contest; since you would still need to do a search operation (F8) to filter by Group. You might as well do a search by date in that case.   I use Groups in my main log to differentiate from G3NKC and G3NKC/P, and I think I set up GQ3NKC - so call sign variants.

For my GD contest operations, I currently hold separate logs for GD0EMG, MD6V, and MD4K; even though I have been thinking about the merits of merging those logs (might be nice to see a complete DXCC achievement, for instance); but I often think these would be outweighed by the overhead when doing the QSLling chores (when someone requests a card, I normally QSL all QSO's with our particular contest call. I might end up selecting QSL's for all call's; meaning I have 3 labels that would have to go on 3 cards). ON balance I think those logs will stay separate.

73

Dave
G3NKC

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of John Balsillie
Sent: 15 February 2008 23:06
To: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Multiple QSOs change on QSO NOTES - Group Numbers

Hi Bill,
I'm not sure how you allocate your group numbers. I started giving a number to every contest, IE CQ WPX CW,2005,2006,2007 ETC and could see I would fast run out of numbers. On a suggestion from a local user I now only have one number for each contest and use the same number each year. Its a simple matter to filter by year or mode as and when you require. This has reduced my groups considerably.

Cheers
John ZL1ALZ

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[mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of AC0W
Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2008 11:03 a.m.
To: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Multiple QSOs change on QSO NOTES - Group Numbers

Group numbers is a nice feature and I use it a lot. I just wish we were allowed more than 254 group numbers. At my present rate I will have all 254 numbers used by CQ WPX CW this year. When that happens I will have to look at other options to accomplish this or look at different software that will do what I want.

Bill
AC0W

---- Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote: 
--- py2xb <py2xb at integral.com.br> wrote:

> Hello. How can I add a text in the QSO Notes field to the entire log ? I
> need to merge tow logs, but I want to have a writting text on the QSO Notes
> to know from what log the QSO came from. Thanks Fred PY2XB

What about using group numbers - assign a different group to each imported log?

73 - Jim AD1C

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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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