[Dx4win] qsl managers

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Steve K7AWB <k7awbgoog at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am confused on how accurate the QSL Managers are in this program and where
> the information comes from.  For instance:
>
> 1) for P29NO in Papua New Guinea, DX4WIN shows JA2VQP as the manager.  Yet
> QRZ.com shows EA5GL in Spain, both on the P29NO and EA54GL pages.  I usually
> use the QRZ.com information as it is maintained by operators and their
> managers, but it is a tedious task for QSLs, one at a time.
>
> 2)  for XR0YG, DX4WIN says the manager is G3TXF.  When I print QSL labels,
> the address for G3TXF is so long that it prints on top of the adjacent label
> to the right, making that label and the G3TXF labels unusable.  What makes
> this happen in the program?  This is not the first time I have seen this
> long address problem.  How can I fix it in the future?

I maintain the QSL managers.  Most of them are vetted against at least
three sources.  If you find errors, please let me know.  You have an
old QSL manager database and/or country file, P29NO was fixed in the
most recent release, which has been out for a month.

As to long manager addresses, there's not much I can do, because
DX4WIN limits you to four lines of address:

  - name
  - street
  - city, state,province
  - country

It would be good if DX4WIN could choose a smaller label font
automatically based on the length of the address.

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