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

Sun Feb 17 13:25:48 EST 2008

Maybe it's my aging brain, but I found the instructions regarding the 
use of the Selection feature in the manual difficult to understand.  It 
took more than a little bit of trial and error to get it working the way 
it was intended.

73, Joe
K2XX

Dave Sharred wrote:
> 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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