[Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past

Fri Mar 16 08:28:36 EDT 2012

Sorry, that was not my intention.  My comment was solely to offer a caution that users have mentioned that they found errors in clublog, thus I felt it was legitimate to simply point out that you cannot blindly accept reported errors as being gospel.  It was in no way a blanket condemnation of anything and I'm certainly not suggesting that it shouldn't be used although a certain amount of caution seemed valid.

If someone wants to delete my message, please do so.

Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Handscombe [mailto:fredch at homeshack.freeserve.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:02 AM
To: Jack; 'Bill Parry'; 'D. Drake'; dxbase at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] :  Something stupid that I have done in the past

Jack

That is a very broad and condemning statement with nothing to back it up! Not even first hand experience from your comment?

I load my logs to Clublog and find that DXBase makes plenty of errors in "deciding" which country I have worked. I use the Clublog feedback to improve my DXBase databases. To be factual, and not just make a wild claim, most of the errors are in the Asiatic Russian prefixes.

If I feel my DXBase is "right" I give feedback, in the correct forum, and the accuracy of Clublog improves, or I find out I have made an error! Making wild statements in the wrong forum helps no-one.

Clublog's database is being updated almost daily, so something which happened even a few months back is probably now corrected an it is well worth deleting an old log and running it again.

73

Fred
G4BWP

> Message Received: Mar 15 2012, 03:14 PM
> From: "Jack" 
> To: "'Bill Parry'" , "'D. Drake'" , dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] :  Something stupid that I have done in the past
> 
> Just throwing out a caution that others have used clublog and 
> discovered that it's database has quite a few errors in it. So, if you 
> are using it as the gospel, you're probably creating errors rather than fixing anything.
> Just saying....
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Bill Parry
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:06 AM
> To: 'D. Drake'; dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past
> 
> I did exactly that some time ago. I uploaded my log sometime back and 
> Clublog "noticed" the errors (among others). I used the error file to 
> make the corrections. My point was not to try to figure out if I had 
> mistakes or a way to correct them but to mention that it is real easy 
> to make mistakes like this! (Usually if a mistake is to be made I am 
> one of the first to try it out! :-)
> 
> Bill W5VX
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of D. Drake
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:38 AM
> To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net; bparry at rgv.rr.com
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] : Something stupid that I have done in the past
> 
> Bill,
> 
> Try running you log through Clublog. I think the error report will 
> tell you which qso's (by call
> sign) have the wrong prefix.
> 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Dale AA1QD
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: "Bill Parry" 
> Subject: [Dxbase] Something stupid that I have done in the past
> To: 
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> 
> This is just an FYI regarding a mistake that I was making and it was 
> messing up the prefix column in my records.
> 
> Sometimes I would hear a station and enter it into DXBase. I do this 
> to get the record of whether I have worked the station before and on which bands.
> If I accidentally entered the call wrong or copied the call wrong I 
> would correct the call in the callsign column.. If you hit enter again 
> on that line it will correct the country that is entered.
> This unfortunately does NOT fix the prefix column and leaves the 
> original prefix entered. I suppose this is no big deal but it does 
> screw up the prefix totals for the Prefix award.
> 
> I am probably the only person that has done this but just in case 
> there is another dummy out there you might want to be careful.
> 
> 
> Bill W5VX
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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