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

Sun Feb 17 10:46:36 EST 2008

Hi Thor

Had chance to look at this; had some problems getting the SELECTION to work
though !!

It's OK now; I seem to have lost my filters in the main log (now fixed)

So FILTER  (F8) is only a temporary filter; by pressing ESC   you go back to
the full log

SELECTION looks like a filter that applies until you decide that you are
finished, and look at the whole log; right ?

I see the advantages in reporting DXCC status, say by SELECTION call sign,
too. It would meet my criteria for combining my GD logs, and for anyone else
who had travelled and wants to keep their logs integrated, but be able to
chase awards separately.

For those who are setting Groups per contest; I only see it as a way to
correlate their country score; but I would use the contest logger to do
that. I see no real advantage to assigning a group to every contests, but
that's my opinion.

Maybe by groups of contest; for instance if I wanted to see how many IOTA's
I had ever worked in IOTA contests, then that might be good to define an
IOTA CONTEST selection, same with CQWW etc...

Has anyone found a practical limit to log size in numbers of QSO's; not that
I'm there yet, but I know that the bigger the log the longer it takes to
load (and the bigger the file size!!!)

73

Dave
G3NKC

PS - I left Kosovo (or Kosova!) off my country list; I'll wait for a
positive indication before I even think about adding it !!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Thorvaldur Stefansson [mailto:otradalur at gmail.com]
Sent: 16 February 2008 17:35
To: Dave Sharred
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Multiple QSOs change on QSO NOTES - Group Numbers

Dave,

I have more than 30 groups, operations from several dxcc countries and
multiple callsigns from within TF all in the same log file (TF4M.DXL).

When filtering by Group the F8 search option is not used, rather you use
SELECTION which you  previously define to choose between the call signs.
This way, you can create a selection which covers all your operations from a
certain dxcc entity for example your GD operations and you will then have
all DX4WINs reporting available for that group.

You should import your various GD operations into your main log, each into
their separate groups.    You can then open the SAME CALL window and you
will see there previous contacts with a station and the call you used to
make the QSO.

Even if you import the GD logs into your main log, they stay separate when
you start using the SELECTION feature.

73
Thor, TF4M

On 16/02/2008, 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-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[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

-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[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

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