[Dx4win] Mailed cutoff - explain?

[Scott Townley]

Like I said, though:  the QSO in question *did not have a date entered for 
any form of electronic QSL*...either LoTW or eQSL.  So as far as the log 
knew, nothing is uploaded and paper is the only thing...

At 12:26 2009-08-29, Mel wrote:
>Hold fire on this... apparently there are some changes coming in 8.02.
>I believe the M can be an indication that the QSO was uploaded to LotW in 
>8.01... I haven't really looked at it since it's going to change...
>
>Scott Townley wrote:
>>Either I misunderstand "Mailed Cutoff" or it's not working correctly in 8.01.
>>Example:  Mailed Cutoff value = 730 (days, as I understand)...so 2 
>>years.  My understanding is that any QSL Date earlier than 2007-08-29 
>>should show up "W" instead of "M".
>>I have a particular QSO whose QSL date was 2000-02-26.  This QSO (the 
>>only one in its band-mode combination) shows up "M" in the Country 
>>window.  No matter the date (even ridiculous ones like 1930-01-01).   The 
>>only way to make it show up "W" is to completely erase the QSL date field.
>>I do have all the electronic QSL date fields blank as well.  So it's not 
>>that.  What I was planning on doing to work-around the "M" "problem" is I 
>>copy my log to another file, "NX7U_packet.dxl" and in that log I globally 
>>erase all the electronic QSL dates.  I had hoped that would "restore" the 
>>original Mailed Cutoff behaviour but no dice.  Or like I said, maybe I 
>>misunderstand how it works.
>>TIA,
>>
>>Scott Townley NX7U
>>Gilbert, AZ  DM43di
>>mailto:nx7u at cox.net
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>Scott Townley NX7U
>Gilbert, AZ  DM43di
>mailto:nx7u at cox.net
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