[Dx4win] LATEST COUNTRY FILE PROBLEM?
Paul van der Eijk
pvandereijk at cox.net
Fri Jan 11 01:46:05 EST 2008
Guys,
When you are in add-in-realtime mode and in the QSO Window the call is
empty, selecting a spot
will show the band and mode in the QSO Window, indicating what DX4WIN
believes the
mode is.
--Paul
Kostas SV1DPI wrote:
> 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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