[Dx4win] Version 9 of DX4WIN available

[ON4AOI]

Also  downloadable from my webpage

www.on4aoi.be

Enjoy .... ..

Guy ON4AOI


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
Namens Paul van der Eijk
Verzonden: donderdag 19 oktober 2017 20:30
Aan: DX4WIN Reflector
Onderwerp: [Dx4win] Version 9 of DX4WIN available

Happy to announce that version 9 is available!

The website still needs work and I plan to do that in the coming days but
the order form is current (you may have to reload the form if you still see
version 8)

You can download the installer here: www.dx4win.com/files/dx4w901.exe

The improvements in this release would not have been possible without the
suggestions and bug reports from the beta testers:

Jim,  AD1C
Paul, F6EXV
David, K2DBK
Bud, N7CW
Lee, N7NU
Guy, ON4AOI
Kostas, SV1DPI
Mike, W0VTT

With a very special thank you to Jim for his tireless efforts to get the new
data in shape to feed the country database and related files.

Important Note:
This version does not implement the editors for the various databases; this
is planned for the next update.

Callsigns
Support for on-line callsign lookups for QRZ and Buckmaster (HamCall)
Separate menu option to lookup a callsign using a web browser Callsigns can
be up to 16 characters long (up from 12)

Country Database
The country database is now split in two files; country.dat contains the
callsign mappings, country information etc. A second file, usrexcpt.dat
contains the exceptions (overrides) entered by the user. This applies to
prefix/zones/date exceptions for a callsign, QSL manager information and QSL
manager address.
Callsign exceptions and mappings in the country database have now a start-
and end-date allowing multiple date ranges to be specified.
Counties have now coordinates

Custom Awards
Custom awards have been updated to allow for more flexibility in naming
awards and better error checking.
Awards 'codes' can be 6 characters in length (up from 4). The longer values
allow for a more logical organization of the awards avoiding splitting a
single award into multiple awards.
Award 'values' can be 12 characters in length (up from 8) The abbreviation
for an award is shown in the QSO Window; pressing F1 will show the list of
valid entries and their description. The list shown takes the restrictions
for Prefix, Date, Band and Mode into account When selecting a custom award,
an information page can be displayed which may have an URL for the home page
for the award A new menu option is available to verify and convert the
custom award setting for each QSO; see QSO Window | Multiple QSO operations
| Check Custom Awards.
A new file, awdmap.txt, has been introduced to convert awards and award
values to the new custom awards.

IOTAs
For a new QSO, the IOTA field is set when the IOTA for the entity is unique.
Similarly, the Island field is set for an IOTA when the Island is unique for
the IOTA.
A new menu option is available to check existing QSOs for a valid IOTA and
set the IOTA and Island fields when they are unique; see QSO Window |
Multiple QSO operations | Check IOTAs.
The relation between Prefix and IOTA is stored in a new file: prf2iota.txt
The PopUp menu for selecting an IOTA can be limited to IOTAs by continent or
by Prefix in addition to the full list of IOTAs.
An option has been added to confirm IOTA QSOs using the .CSV file downloaded
from the RSGB; see QSO Window | QSLs | Confirm QSOs using IOTA file.

Modes
Added many more modes, and a new QSO field to enter a sub-mode. See Modes
for a table of modes and sub modes.
The option to modify the modes for the selected QSOs can also modify the
sub-mode. See QSO | Multiple QSOs Operations | Set Mode.
Added an option, (Alt+F8), to search for generic modes like Phone and
Digital.
A double-click in a summary window uses the generic mode search and
searching using the previous filter will show how that was done.

Packet Cluster
Ability to auto connect to a cluster node. The node is shown in the
preferences and will not change when the clusters.txt is updated.
The redesigned Announce DX Window can automatically include state, county,
IOTA and VUCC grid in a DX spot if specified in the QSO Window.
The clusters.txt is no longer modified after selecting a node and is now a
single file. Previously, two files were used specify a keep alive parameter
or not. The keep alive value is now part of the cluster node configuration.

Radios
A number of new radios were added.

Reports
Progress reports use now three dates for reporting.
Submission report honors the exclusion of deleted countries Added columns to
WPX submission report so it can be used for submissions by saving the report
as a csv file.

RST
rstR and rstS fields can have 5 characters; numerical formatting is no
longer enforced to allow for EME reports etc

System
On-line updating for program and data files. See Main Form | Help | Check
for Updates Many files have been renamed to better reflect their use; binary
files have the *.dat file extension and text files the *.txt file extension.
See Appendix B for more details.
Cosmetic changes and fixes; most importantly that when using skins, windows
no longer change position and size when restarting the program.
Many small bug fixes; many of them never reported previously!
Reading of ADIF files is substantially faster Expanded the memory available
to the program; log files with a million QSOs are possible.

--Paul, KK4HD

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Paul van der Eijk, KK4HD
BrookHill Data Systems LLC
http://www.dx4win.com
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