[Dxbase] New Report designed by Tom K2TA and made by Joe WA6AXE

[Tom Althoff]

Some historical background on the report and an unfortunate discovery....

Maybe a decade ago I wrote a DOS utillity that printed out 2 styles of
reports from DXBase 2.0 and 3.0 and released them to public domain.   They
might still be found on some old HamCall CDROMS.

One generated a 2 column report, the other a 3 column report that required
the printer (HP laserjet at the time) be manually put into a 132 column, 77
lines per page mode before sending the report to the printer.

The 2 column report was used as input to a DOS utility that I did not write
called "Pamphlet.com".  It would print out your DXCC "needs" lists in a
multi-page 5.5x8 inch pamphlet to hand out to your friends.

The 3 column was the best.   If you sent it to your printer in compressed
text and manually inserted a single sheet of paper in the printer, flipping
it over once and inverting it a third time, you ended up with a SINGLE sheet
of paper that had every DXCC stat including the worked / confirmed totals
for modes and bands at the end of the report.  I would laminate them and
give them out to friends to keep an eye out for new ones so I could get that
one-ringer phone call at 3 AM.

Sadly...I did not recall the 3 column report when I first approached Joe
about doing an updated DXBase 2005 version.   I told him how it would fit on
a single sheet of paper but all I had to show him at the time was a 2 column
printout that I found on one of my old DOS boxes.   The DXBase 2005 report
is neat but still eats up paper.

I appologize profusely to Joe for not discovering this until today!!!!

If anyone would like to see the raw text output of the 3 column form, e-mail
me directly and I'll attach it to my e-mail back to you.

If I get a copy of Crystal Reports for myself perhaps I could get a 3 column
DXBase 2005 version worked up using Joe's as a starting point.

I cannot thank Joe enough for all the work he put into this custom
report!!!!!   He's amazing.

73 de Tom K2TA




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Harlem W1EBI" <w1ebi at lightband.com>
To: "'Joseph Glockner'" <jglock2 at airmail.net>; "'DXbase reflector'"
<dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:00 PM
Subject: RE: [Dxbase] New Report designed by Tom K2TA and made by Joe WA6AXE


> Joe, I like this report, but why are the characters in the display and
> hard copy both upper and lower case, apparently in a random mix?  And
> any chance of showing a summary with total W's and C's?
>
> George W1EBI
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dxbase-bounces+w1ebi=lightband.com at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:dxbase-bounces+w1ebi=lightband.com at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> Joseph Glockner
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:20 PM
> To: DXbase reflector
> Subject: [Dxbase] New Report designed by Tom K2TA and made by Joe WA6AXE
>
> To all on the DXbase Reflector,
>
> Back in the DOS 2.0 days, Tom K2TA, designed and made a DXCC Checklist
> report.  He asked if I would generate the same report for the DXbase2005
> program.  I have replicated his report and that report is now available
> at my website at:
>
> http://www.qsl.net/wa6axe/K2TA_DXCC_Checklist.html
>
>
> 73 Joe WA6AXE
>
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