[Dx4win] 2011 Radio Amateur Call book & DX4WIN

[Mel]

You raise an important point Jim. D4W was primarily designed for 
accurate award tracking. Automatically populating award fields with 
unreliable data (which is supported in other programs) is NOT a good 
idea in this context. As I think most people know, some of the 
information in the callbooks cannot be relied on. Info such as county 
and grid and even state should always be verified. Given the orientation 
of D4W I don't think Paul will change it... though he might surprise me 
;-) I would like the function of the update button to be expanded and I 
suspect it will be if Paul ever implements the requested QRZ XML look-up 
feature.

On 2011-06-26 01:44, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Art - W6KY wrote:
>
>> I have Auto Update checked and it still doesn't 'auto' update. I have to click
>> the update button...
>
> Auto-update in this context means the callbook lookup follows the QSO
> window.  If you enter a new call or go to one previously logged, the
> F3 window will update (change) with the callsign.
>
> There is no way to get the RAC data auto-copied into the log.  While
> some may want it to work this way, I'd never do it.  For example,
> counties and grids can be wrong in many cases.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>