[Dx4win] F2 function in 8.03

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:27 PM, John Buck KH7T wrote:

> The preferences menu appears to give me exactly what I wanted for F2.
> Options are selectable to mark the qso confirmed and insert current date
> in the QSL sent location.
>
> It marks the QSO confirmed and no longer sets the label flag to Y.  This
> is a good change.
>
> However, I cannot get F2 to set the date into the QSL sent date location.
>
> What am I missing?

Hi John,

I don't know that F2 ever did this.

*  If the QSL date was NOT set, the F2 may set Label=Y, but that's a
future operation so no date is filled in.

*  If the QSL dates was set, presumably because you already sent a
QSL, then the F2 key can optionally change the QSL date to today's
date (i.e. the date you received the QSL, as opposed to the date you
SENT the QSL).

In other words, F2 can mark a QSL to be sent in the future, but it
can't mark that you are sending a QSL *right now*.  I believe that's
the way it always has been.

If I receive an unsolicited QSL that I want to reply to right away, I
use up-arrow in the date field to set today's date, and change the QSL
Method to direct/manager, then use the F2 key to confirm it.

73 - Jim AD1C

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