[Logic] How to best use QRZ lookup and Log

[Ben Hatheway]

Hitting F6 before saving the log will update the times.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill VanAlstyne" <w5wvo@cybermesa.net>
To: <logic@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 16:33
Subject: [Logic] How to best use QRZ lookup and Log


> Hi guys,
>
> I operate a lot of 6M SSB, chasing grid squares and states, so I enabled
> auto-logging from QRZ. When I hear a station, I type the call into the
CALL
> field and hit TAB to generate a QRZ query. I get back the info, which
fills in
> the fields in a new database record. Then one of two things happens:
>
> 1) I find I already have the grid or state and decide to move on.
> 2) He's a new grid or state, and I decide to try to work the guy.
>
> In the case of 1), I erase the record and open a new blank record for the
next
> try. Ungainly, but not too bad.
>
> In the case of 2), let's say there's a pile-up on him, and working him
takes
> some time. After about twenty minutes of trying, I get through and score
the
> QSO. But the time stamp in my log is twenty minutes ago. If I remember in
the
> heat of the action, I go into the log and correct the time field, but
sometimes
> I forget. Bad news for QSLing!
>
> I thought from reading the Help that I could actually look up a guy in the
> "Callbook from Web" window without generating a log record -- and then if
I want
> to log him, I just click Copy and a new log entry will be generated with
the
> current date/time, etc. But it doesn't seem to work that way. If this is
indeed
> the way it is supposed to work, I must be doing something wrong. When I
click
> Copy, I do get a new record started, but the only fields that get filled
in are
> the fields that carry over from previous QSOs, plus the date/time stamp.
(At
> least that works!) None of the information in the Callbook from Web
window -- no
> call, no name, no QTH, etc., etc. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Bill / W5WVO
>
>
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