[Dx4win] [DX4WIN] Multiple QSOs Group number

Thu Mar 24 01:03:19 EDT 2016

Really I don't know the answer to the original question.
But about the use of the groups another idea is...
I have all of my contest in the same group number.
I use ad1c' software to convert my contest log to dx4win file and then 
import it.
I add in the notes field the name of the contest as follows
for cq wpx cw contest I add CQ WPX CW CONTEST 2016
for bartg I add BARTG RTTY 2016 and so on.
That means that my format is: Name of the contest, mode, year.
Now if i need to find all of my qsos I made in a contest on cw inside 
2016, i need to press f8 and write cw 2016.
If I want to see all my cq wpx qsos, guess it, f8 and write CQ WPX and 
so on.
All of my rtty contest's qsos I write RTTY...
anf finally if I want all the qsos from a specific contest, I write cq 
wpx cw 2016...
This is far more flexible in my opinion.
I use the groups to have different calls under the same dxcc. For 
example I have different group number for my sv1dpi qsos, sv1dpi/8 qsos, 
sv1dpi/p qsos, sx2004d, special calls, etc.

73 Kostas SV1DPI

On 24/3/2016 2:36 πμ, Ernie Walls wrote:
> Group numbers were increased 5-6 years ago. As reported, some 65K available now and I can use numbers above 256 without trouble. However, I do not use as many numbers as I used to before the increase because, as someone posted yesterday, I also bracket the same contest, over years, in the same group number. For me, much more easy to analyse within DX4Win.
>
> As with most posts to this and similar reflectors the 'problem' will almost certainly be in the individual set-up - something ticked (checked) that should not be, something forgotten that needs doing, etc. Good luck with the fix - it works, it just needs to be set up correctly.
>
> Ernie Walls VK3FM
> Vk3fm at wallsy.com.au
> Mobile 0418 301 483
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Shaw
> Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2016 10:22 AM
> To: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] [DX4WIN] Multiple QSOs Group number
>
> Ah, so there has been a change in the allowable number of groups.  That been the case I have no answer.  Maybe Tony has found is a bug in that for some reason the Multiple QSO operation still thinks 254 is it.
>   
> 73 John ZL1BYZ
>    _____
>
> From: Lee Hallin [mailto:hallinl at lanecc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2016 12:02
> To: John Shaw; dx4win at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] [DX4WIN] Multiple QSOs Group number
>
>
> It looks to me (looking at the .DXL file structure) like the Group Number
> was increased in v8.x from the previous max of 254 to a max of 65,534!
>   
> 73,
> Lee  N7NU
>
>>>> "John Shaw" <zl1byz at gmail.com> 3/23/2016 3:22 PM >>>
>
>
> I thought 254 groups was the limit in DX4WIN?  Although having a quick look
> in the help I now can't find any reference to this.
>
> Any how what I have been doing, working with the maybe misguided thought
> that allocating groups was not limitless I have been re using the same group
> number for the same contest year after year.  If I want to look at the QSO's
> for that contest in any one particular year I use a date filter in the
> selection editor.
>
> 73 John ZL1BYZ.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tony Osman
> Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2016 10:40
> To: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Dx4win] [DX4WIN] Multiple QSOs Group number
>
> Wonder if there is a fix for this?  I have more than 254 Group names. (I do
> a lot of contesting!). Although I can individually change the group number
> for a QSO record to be any value - Say 300,  if I try to do a Multiple QSO
> operation and change the group names for a number of QSOs to anything more
> than 254, then it tells me that no QSO has been changed.
>
> I sure others must have seen this or am I doing something wrong? I have
> 157,000 QSOs in the file.
>
> 73
> Tony
> VE3RZ
>
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