[Logic] How to best use QRZ lookup and Log

[Terry Dummler]

Try using the UP arrow to fill in the Log Data.  Then when you work the 
station, TAB.  Or if you do
not work the station, ESC.

Terry,      WQ7A

>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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