[Dx4win] DOK and SDOK

Jim Reisert AD1C jjreisert at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jan 7 14:56:33 EST 2008


Hi Folks,

In April 2007, I added the Sonder-DOK (SDOK) designators to the DOK award. 
This has caused some problems for people trying to generate needed lists for
the "classic" DOK award (A##-Z## designators).

I have written about this several times, but now I need to do something.

I have decided to split this into two separate DX4WIN "awards":

  [DOK]  contains only the "classic" DOK (A##-Z##)
  [SDOK] contains only the Sonder-DOK

If you want to submit a DOK award that includes both DOK and SDOK, you will
need to perform two award submissions: one for DOK, and one for SDOK.  You can
either print out the forms separately, or save the submission reports (.CSV
files) and combine them into a single form.

Please let me know if this is going to cause problems for anyone.  The one
major problem I see is that if you already entered SDOK designators into the
DOK award, then you will need to re-enter them under the SDOK award.

It is confusing to the users to maintain two separate award files, one that
keeps DOK/SDOK separate, and one that combines them.  Since I created the
problem in April 2007, I feel like I can propose my own solution to fix it.

For people that REALLY REALLY want DOK and SDOK to still be a single award,
there will be a way, but it will require you edit the DX4WIN.AWD file by hand
each time I release a new version.  I'll provide instructions on the web:

  http://dx4win.ad1c.us/awards.htm

73 - Jim AD1C


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


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