[Dx4win] County and Grid "Refill"

(K7ZO) Scott Tuthill k7zo at cableone.net
Sat Mar 22 11:18:03 EDT 2014


There has been one behavior of DX4WIN that has irritated me for years so I 
thought I would finally post a note and see if anyone has figured it out. 
When I am logging in QSLs received I enter in the County, Grid, and First 
Name of the operator. Then, on a second QSL or QSO on the same card I have 
to reenter the County and Grid all over again while the first name gets 
"Refilled" on the record. I can't think of a time where I have ever had the 
County and Grid change between QSOs or QSL cards. Is there a way to have the 
County and Grid fields act like the name field and get "Refilled" as soon as 
one entry is made for that callsign? I looked through preferences but didn't 
see anything.

Note that if I Add a new QSO with a callsign having County and Grid already 
entered then yes they get "Refilled". But if I merge a DX4WIN log into the 
existing log then the "Refill" does not occur. And this is the way I usually 
populate my log. I have a log for a contest which is exported from the 
contest software as ADIF. I then create a new DX4WIN log to make sure I have 
all the import parameter correct. Then I merge this new DX4WIN log into the 
existing master log. That way I minimize the risk of messing up the master 
log during the import process.

Scott/K7ZO 



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