[Dx4win] LATEST COUNTRY FILE PROBLEM?

Fri Jan 11 00:25:23 EST 2008

The answer is simple
the right one is the 2nd qso. The colour must be grey. This station has no 
interest for you to confirm this country, band, mode. You worked him. If you 
have this country unconfirmed (as you have) this station can't help you 
more. (in some cases as zd7x - see qrz.com for him- working 2nd time has as 
result to loose all qsos).
So your preferences for the cw cutoff freq for 40m probably is 7100. That is 
not right because the most of the stations work cw under 7040. So dx4win 
thinks that 1st and 3rd qso is cw while the 2nd one is ssb. In some rare 
cases where i am not sure that i worked a station and want to see the spots 
(last example with 3y0e. I worked him but because of qsb i never heard the 
confirmition from him. So i waited for the online log. Tnx God i was in!) i 
do this trick. I log the station like /mm . That is i logged 3y0e like 
3y0e/mm. Dx4win knows that the maritime stations doesn't count for dxcc so 
the spot colours don't affected.
Kostas sv1dpi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Shapiro" <garry at ni6t.com>
To: "Kostas SV1DPI" <sv1dpi at otenet.gr>
Cc: "REFLECTOR dx4win" <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LATEST COUNTRY FILE PROBLEM?


> Kostas:
>
> Thank you for the explanation, which indeed is clear, and confirms that 
> mode information may influence posting color. But here is an example of 
> the specific problem, which may not fit the criteria you have listed. 
> These spots just came in.
>
> Note: "Alert unconfirmed country" is unchecked. TO5FJ is in the log on 40 
> SSB.
>
> P  Freq     Callsign Time   QSX   Remarks       Spotter
> 4  7080.0  TO5FJ   0226            simplex          DL7AFV         Blue 
> letters
> 9  7080.0  TO5FJ   0234  7240   QSX 7240     N4YIC            Gray letters
> 4  7080.0  TO5FJ   0242                                KE5FXE 
> Blue letters
>
> The first and third QSOs are labeled 4-Award Mode.Unconfirmed--which is 
> the actual case---and the second QSO is "9-No Interest", which is not the 
> case, because it is unconfirmed.  The second QSO indicates by the QSX 
> frequency--both in the QSX and Remarks columns--that the posting is SSB, 
> which was the QSO mode, of course, so why was it gray?
>
> Garry, NI6T
>
>
>
> Kostas SV1DPI wrote:
>> dx4win looks at first the notes of every spot
>> if it find there a word like cw or rtty or ssb then dx4win count this 
>> spot like this mode
>> if nothing related in notes then reads the frequency (if it is available) 
>> and count the spot as cw or ssb (this is depended by file>preferences> cw 
>> frequency cutoff)
>> so let's suppose you worked to5fj on 40m cw
>> and there is a spot like
>>
>> 7020 TO5FJ very loud
>>
>> if you have Alert unconfirmed country checked the spot will be yellow
>> if not the spot will be gray
>>
>> another one
>>
>> 7085 TO5FJ really strong
>>
>> the spot will be blue as dx4win thinks that this is ssb and this is a new 
>> mode for you...
>> or yellow if Alert is checked
>>
>> Another one
>> 7085 TO5FJ pse qsy cw
>> then dx4win will think that the station is working cw and will spot it 
>> like gray!!
>>
>> that is dx4win gives a priority to notes of the spot and after the freq.
>>
>> I hope now is clear
>> Kostas sv1dpi
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garry Shapiro" <garry at ni6t.com>
>> To: "Kostas SV1DPI" <sv1dpi at otenet.gr>
>> Cc: "REFLECTOR dx4win" <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:47 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LATEST COUNTRY FILE PROBLEM?
>>
>>
>>> Kostas et al:
>>>
>>> WIth my DX4WIN 7.03 installation, I have noted that consecutive postings 
>>> of TO5FJ /on the same frequency/ vary in color. That is--with TO5FJ in 
>>> the log on 40 SSB-- three consecutive 40m SSB postings may show as 
>>> yellow, gray, yellow (if "Alert unconfirmed country" is checked) or 
>>> blue, gray, yellow (if "Alert unconfirmed country" is unchecked). I am 
>>> more concerned about the lack of consistency than the color itself. I 
>>> thought perhaps DX4WIN might be uncertain from posting to posting 
>>> whether TO5FJ is CW, SSB or even RTTY.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Garry, NI6T
>>>
>>> Kostas SV1DPI wrote:
>>>> Under File>preferences>packet1 uncheck the alert unconfirmed country
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hewitt" 
>>>> <andyphewitt at btopenworld.com>
>>>> To: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:05 AM
>>>> Subject: [Dx4win] LATEST COUNTRY FILE PROBLEM?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Having been away during the first St.Bart activity I was not in any 
>>>>> hurry to
>>>>> add the new country and encounter the problems that others seem to 
>>>>> have
>>>>> suffered. Therefore last week I downloaded from Jim's site the latest 
>>>>> .cty
>>>>> file and everything was hunky dory, until yesterday. The I worked 
>>>>> TO5FJ and
>>>>> changed the prefix in the relevant box to FJ and it all worked - or 
>>>>> seemed
>>>>> to. In the DXCC reports FJ is now shown as worked but every time TO5FJ 
>>>>> is
>>>>> spotted I get the spot in the DX Spot window highlit in yellow as if 
>>>>> it were
>>>>> an unworked country. Not much of a problem but I would prefer to just 
>>>>> see it
>>>>> highlit in green as a new band/mode.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas what has happened anyone? No complaints otherwise.
>>>>>
>>>>> 73
>>>>>
>>>>> Andy G3SVD
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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