[Dxbase] ARRL SSB contest

[Gary Senesac AL9A]

Bob,

I'm afraid I can't help much on the first two items and am a bit confused on
the third one.  By "Some way to load the call from the Summary window to the
QSO log." do you mean from the Spots tab of the DX Info window?  The Summary
window doesn't show calls unless you have already worked and logged them.
To log calls from the Spots showing in the DX Info window just put the
cursor on the call you want and right click.  Take the first item in the
list box that opens, "Log current entry" and the info will be automatically
placed on the last row of your log.

Gary AL9A

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Tortajada" <k2zc at rtort.com>
To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: March 06, 2006 11:35 AM
Subject: [Dxbase] ARRL SSB contest


> Greetings everyone, I just used dxbase for the ARRL SSB contest and I
> had a few observations that I wanted to share with the group.  Before
> that, let me explain that I understand that DXBase is not a contest
> program. The reason I used instead of writelog  it was because my main
> concern was working new DX and not the contest. Writelog would tell me
> if I worked that call before in this contest, I wanted to know what I
> needed for DX. Also, I am no DXBase expert so if there is a way to get
> the results I talk about please tell me.
>
> OK, here is the list:
>
> 1) Need a way to see need for both worked and confirmed. I started out
> with "need confirmed". After a while I switched to "need worked" to
> highlight the ones I still needed after adding 60 new entities.  When
> the red started to dissappear from the dx info screen I wanted to switch
> back to "need confirmed" so I can rework any countries that I needed to
> better my chances of a QSL. This gave me more DX to look for, but in a
> couple cases, one poped up that I really needed and got lost in the
> shuffle. It would be convient to be able to see both columns or maybee
> even have two dx info windows.
>
> 2) Control dx info scrolling. Many times I wanted to scroll back in the
> dx info window. However, new dx jumps back to the bottom which can be
> quite annoying when you are looking for a old call. You don't want to
> jump if you are scrolling back, but if you are at the bottom, you want
> the new dx to show up without having to scroll down. One solution is to
> only scroll the newline if the bottom dx is visable (already scrolled to
> bottom).
>
> 3) Some way to load the call from the Summary window to the QSO log. I
> had to type this each time. There is probably a way to do this.
>
> That is all for now. Some of this may be my own ignorance of how to
> setup dxbase.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Bob Tortajada N6RI (formerly K2ZC)
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