[Dx4win] Comments in logbook?

[Alan Zack]

Yes, I agree with Jim. All kinds of info can be placed in the NOTES THIS QSO and NOTES FOR THIS CALL. For example, today I worked NB6GC. To further memorialize this QSO in the NOTES THIS QSO Window I entered Op: Jeff (as this is a club station there could be many different ops). In the NOTES THIS CALL I entered: USS HORNET AMATEUR RADIO CLUB. So if was to look up this call again in DX4WIN I would know when I last worked it, what the call represented, and the op at the time.

Another example. I work the Bulgarian Saints stations (there is a new saint every month). Today I worked LZ734PA, The current monthly saint station. In the NOTES THIS QSO Window I entered Bulgarian Saints. I enter Bulgarian Saints in this window for every saint station worked. 108 since 2008, some multi bands/modes. That way I can easily find which and how many Bulgarian Saints Stations I have logged. In the NOTES THIS CALL I entered The name of the current saint for the current month. For June 2020 it is Bulgarian Saint Propodobni Petyr Atonski. Every month there is a new saint featured. You can go to http://www.lz1kcp.com/ to see who is the saint of the month. I am already on the Honor Roll so need more actives to keep me busy on Ham Radio so I now collect IOTA's, museum ships, Bulgarian Saints, and some others.

73

Alan Zack
Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ
Official USCG Auxiliary Comm Station
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Delta Rocket Quality Engineer, The Boeing Company, Retired
Aviation Chief Warrant Officer,  U.S. Coast Guard, Retired
http://www.qrz.com/db/K7ACZ
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-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Tim moore
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2020 06:59 PM
To: Tom Doligalski <w4kx at mac.com>
Cc: DX4WIN Reflector <DX4WIN at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Comments in logbook?

I might be missing your point....but there aere already two fields in the QSO window for each QSO made. Notes for this QSO and Notes for this Call (if I remember correctly, I don't have the program loaded on this computer). So are you talking about some other kind of comments? I use them frequently. When I work someone with the same radio as me, I'll put a comment in the QSO in one of those fields. When I get a new radio, I add comments like "first 6 meter contact on new FT991A"....or "he's using same microphone as me"....and on and on, etc, etc.

So are you talking about something different? Because there are already TWO comment fields as the software already is. So I'm a bit confused what you are asking for....is it something different....

K4TK



Tim Moore
PMP


On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 3:26 PM Tom Doligalski via DX4WIN < dx4win at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Years ago, in the dark ages before we had electronics logs, it was 
> very convenient to write a comment in the logbook. Something like “new dipole”
> or “new radio”.
>
> I would like to suggest a similar function for dx4win. Maybe have the 
> program recognize and entry made with the callsign field starting with 
> the #sign as a comment. No entries for qsl, etc. but just day, time, 
> notes for this qso. Maybe the current frequency and mode.
>
> Items would appear chronologically in the log, but nowhere else.
>
> Not sure how difficult this would be, but it would be very useful, 
> albeit only used occasionally.
>
> 73, Tom W4KX
>
> Sent from my iPad
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