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Re: Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector
Dave AA6YQ
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From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Pete Raymond Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:00 PM To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [dxlab] Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector Hi Dave, I followed your below instructions and conditions remain the same. "Marzoneprog," and "Needed" columns of SC seem "unable" to track Marathon Zones. Marcntryprog, and Needed columns of SC, track needed countries very well for Marathon. Could there be a problem within the software and zone tracking. causes the Marathon Zone Progress, Marathon Zone Band Progress, and MarathonYes, a regression (defect) was introduced in SpotCollector 5.8.1 that Zone Mode Progress to be incorrectly recorded in each Spot Database Entry. The regression is corrected in the forthcoming SpotCollector 5.8.2. 73, Dave, AA6YQ
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Re: Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector
Pete N4KW
Hi Dave, I followed your below instructions and conditions remain the same.
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"Marzoneprog," and "Needed" columns of SC seem "unable" to track Marathon Zones. Marcntryprog, and Needed columns of SC, track needed countries very well for Marathon. Could there be a problem within the software and zone tracking. 73 Pete N4KW
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From: Dave AA6YQ To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:04 PM Subject: RE: [dxlab] Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector >>>AA6YQ comments below -----Original Message----- From: Pete Raymond [mailto:n4kwpete@centurylink.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:54 AM To: aa6yq@ambersoft.com Subject: RE: [dxlab] Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector Hi Dave, I have gone over your instructions and found that my set up is identical to what your instructions directed me to do. I have looked at each line item three times. According to the SC help files, its my understanding that with the column, marcntryprog (marathon country progress) and set up properly it should tell you if you need the entity that has just been spotted. That works great, no problems. Now here is where the problem appears. In the next column marzoneprog (marathon zone progress) appears and this is supposed to track the needed zones for the Marathon award as Zones, and CQ Countries have to be tracked during the entire year for this award. Well all that appears in this column for every spot is "?" . That tells me SC is unable to determine which zone the spotted station is. >>>On the General tab of SpotCollector's Configuration window, check the "lookup missing location info" box; this will enable SpotCollector to determine the zones of most (but not all) spot database entries. Then click the Recomp button on the Configuration window's "Spot Database" tab to update existing entries. I also have been looking at the "Needed" column to see how it was tracking. For every spot it shows "DM" which says I need it for DXCC and The Marathon. I am not tracking DXCC so not sure why its there. >>>DXLab applications assume you are pursuing "DXCC Mixed" at minimum. 73, Dave, AA6YQ
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Spot Collector
John <na2ny@...>
Hi All,
I installed spot collector 5.8.1 and have got the telnet site working but it will not display spots on spot collector. I see spots in the telnet window. Error log below. I have commander, dxkeeper, winwarbler and spot collector installed, do I have to add more for it to work? Thanks, John NA2NY 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > SpotCollector version 5.8.1 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > App.Path : H:\SpotCollector 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > App.exe : SpotCollector 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > Operating System : Windows XP (32-bit) build 2600 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > Locale ID : 1033 (0x409) 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > ANSI CodePage : 1252 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > OEM CodePage : 437 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > Country : United States 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > Language : English 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > DecimalSeparator : . 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > ThousandSeparator : , 18-Aug-2011 00:09:15 > DXLab Apps : 18-Aug-2011 00:09:16 > program error -2147024770 in module SpotDatabaseModule.InitializeSpotdatabaseDisplayLayout, State = 2, I = 0, SpotDatabaseUI.SpotGrid.Columns.Count = 76: Automation error The specified module could not be found.
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Re: Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector
Dave AA6YQ
-----Original Message-----AA6YQ comments below From: Pete Raymond [mailto:n4kwpete@centurylink.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:54 AM To: aa6yq@ambersoft.com Subject: RE: [dxlab] Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector Hi Dave, I have gone over your instructions and found that my set up is identical to what your instructions directed me to do. I have looked at each line item three times. According to the SC help files, its my understanding that with the column, marcntryprog (marathon country progress) and set up properly it should tell you if you need the entity that has just been spotted. That works great, no problems. Now here is where the problem appears. In the next column marzoneprog (marathon zone progress) appears and this is supposed to track the needed zones for the Marathon award as Zones, and CQ Countries have to be tracked during the entire year for this award. Well all that appears in this column for every spot is "?" . That tells me SC is unable to determine which zone the spotted station is. "lookup missing location info" box; this will enable SpotCollector toOn the General tab of SpotCollector's Configuration window, check the determine the zones of most (but not all) spot database entries. Then click the Recomp button on the Configuration window's "Spot Database" tab to update existing entries. I also have been looking at the "Needed" column to see how it was tracking. For every spot it shows "DM" which says I need it for DXCC and The Marathon. I am not tracking DXCC so not sure why its there. 73,DXLab applications assume you are pursuing "DXCC Mixed" at minimum. Dave, AA6YQ
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Re: How to print a single QSL Card ? I can do that!
Kenneth Johansson <kenjohan55@...>
Rich.
I own a digital camera and I have, as late as today, taken a couple of pictures with the highest quality possible as an experiment. The camera menue says the file extension is "raw", which sounds familiar. Unfortunately the files appear as hrw or something, definitely not raw, in my computer and not one of several imaging software I have, can open these files. But, again, it is of no importance any more and I have restored the camera settings to what I usually have and I do not intent to do any further experiments. I knew that Kodak, despite Paul Simon's demand: "Please don't take my Kodachrome away", has done just that. That they've discontinued Kodacolor as well, is news to me, but quite understandable.I was in the photo-business as a young man in the yearly sixties and Kodachrome and Kodacolor were the only useable color films at that time. Other brands fell short of Kodak, by far. 73 Ken, SM4EMO ________________________________ From: Rich - W3ZJ <rich@w3zj.com> To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [dxlab] How to print a single QSL Card ? I can do that! Most digital cameras (even inexpensive ones) provide a means to set the resolution. As long as your camera is capable of producing a reasonably high quality 3 megapixel or greater image and you don't set the resolution to tight to save memory it will produce a very lightly compressed .jpg image that produces excellent quality. If it didn't, digital photo technology would not be replacing film as it most certainly is. Are you aware that Kodak no longer manufactures Kodacolor film because it is no longer profitable? One of the drawbacks of Windows Paint is that it doesn't provide a way to crop a picture to specific dimensions I.E.: 5.5 x 3.5 inches at a specific resolution while maintaining the original aspect ratio. Distorting the aspect ratio is like standing in front of one of those trick mirrors that makes everyone look tall and fat or short and skinny. This is where some good imaging software such as Adobe Photoshop is real advantage. Unfortunately, Photoshop isn't cheap and learning to use it takes time and effort. If you converted a .jpg to .bmp and are not able to open it with QSL-config then something went wrong in the process and your .bmp image is corrupt. Try again with a different image. 73, Rich - W3ZJ Kenneth Johansson wrote: Yes, I thought at first that it could work out that way, but on second thoughts I can't se how it possibly can as a jpg-file is a compressed bmp-file (and others like tiff and raw) in order to get a smaller file and in that process a lot of information is lost. How on earth one can get that lost information back and restore the file again, is beyond me. But many things are, nowadays.
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Re: Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector
Dave AA6YQ
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From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pete Raymond Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:44 AM To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [dxlab] Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector Hi Chuck, There is no Awards tab in DXV. I have found no box that allows me to tell DXLab that I am chasing the CQ Marathon. Hopefully there is such a box, and if so, that could very well be my problem. However, up to this point I have been unable to find it. If you can recall where you found it please let me know. Please let me know how and in which columns of spot collector does it tell you which entities, and zones you need. I have Marathon box checked in SC. 73 Pete N4KW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Chandler" <chandlerusm@gmail.com> To: <dxlab@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [dxlab] Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector I just set up the Awards tab of DXV ( I think it was) to tell it I was ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
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Re: DK QSL Print center feed and slashed-zero ?
Dave AA6YQ
-----Original Message-----AA6YQ comments below. From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of koen_on7rk_oo7k Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:42 AM To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com Subject: [dxlab] Re: DK QSL Print center feed and slashed-zero ? Hi Dave, When i put my card in the center feeder and i print , left or right, nothings printed on the card. If i feed the card left or right without using the gliders , the printing goes completely wrong and i get allways paperjam. card.Not all printers can reliably print on media the size of a single QSL 73, Dave, AA6YQ
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Re: How to print a single QSL Card ? I can do that!
Richard B Drake
Most digital cameras (even inexpensive ones) provide a means to set the resolution. As long as your camera is capable of producing a reasonably high quality 3 megapixel or greater image and you don't set the resolution to tight to save memory it will produce a very lightly compressed .jpg image that produces excellent quality. If it didn't, digital photo technology would not be replacing film as it most certainly is. Are you aware that Kodak no longer manufactures Kodacolor film because it is no longer profitable?
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One of the drawbacks of Windows Paint is that it doesn't provide a way to crop a picture to specific dimensions I.E.: 5.5 x 3.5 inches at a specific resolution while maintaining the original aspect ratio. Distorting the aspect ratio is like standing in front of one of those trick mirrors that makes everyone look tall and fat or short and skinny. This is where some good imaging software such as Adobe Photoshop is real advantage. Unfortunately, Photoshop isn't cheap and learning to use it takes time and effort. If you converted a .jpg to .bmp and are not able to open it with QSL-config then something went wrong in the process and your .bmp image is corrupt. Try again with a different image. 73, Rich - W3ZJ Kenneth Johansson wrote:
Yes, I thought at first that it could work out that way, but on second thoughts I can't se how it possibly can as a jpg-file is a compressed bmp-file (and others like tiff and raw) in order to get a smaller file and in that process a lot of information is lost. How on earth one can get that lost information back and restore the file again, is beyond me. But many things are, nowadays.
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Re: QSL Cards
Greg <ab7r@...>
I will check tonight Dave. Thanks.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Dave AA6YQ <aa6yq@ambersoft.com> wrote: **AA6YQ comments below [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: How to print a single QSL Card ? I can do that!
Kenneth Johansson <kenjohan55@...>
Yes, I thought at first that it could work out that way, but on second thoughts I can't se how it possibly can as a jpg-file is a compressed bmp-file (and others like tiff and raw) in order to get a smaller file and in that process a lot of information is lost. How on earth one can get that lost information back and restore the file again, is beyond me. But many things are, nowadays.
I tried and I get a bmp-file all-right, but it cannot be opened from QSL-config anyway. Now this is really of no importance to me and I will not venture further in to the maze of DXKeeper (which is a very fine piece of software, no doubt) but satisfy myself with what I've achieved so far, notably a QSL-card without background. 73 Ken/SM4EMO ________________________________ From: Rich - W3ZJ <rich@w3zj.com> To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [dxlab] How to print a single QSL Card ? Yes it has come up before and it's not a problem. .jpg files can easily be converted to .bmp format using almost any photo processing software or even Windows Paint which is an integral part of all versions of Windows. Usually this is done by opening the .jpg file and using File>Save As... to save the image in .bmp format. See: <C:\DXLab\DXKeeper\Help\QSLConfiguration.htm> which contains a link to the "Microsoft Pain" documentation. 73, Rich - W3ZJ Kenneth Johansson wrote: Another thing that has to do with printing out paper-QSLs: The background must be in bmp-format. I certainly don't have a lot of bmp-pictures on my computer but thousands of jpg-pictures. I guess that goes for most of us. Is there a way to use jpg-files as QSL-backgrounds? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: ISCAT Mode?
Bill Duffy
Tnx Vlad!
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73 Bill KA0VXK
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From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Vlad_UA6JD Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:26 PM To: RDavis (WD8JJA) Subject: Re: [dxlab] Re: ISCAT Mode? Hello, Rick You wrote : For Bill Duffy, KA0VXK, ISCAT is a digital mode that seems to have 73,I had a several ISCAT QSOs on HF by experemental version WSJT8 a few month ago... Best regards 73 Vlad UA6JD web design in www.qrz.com Sample and download books on http://www.qrz.com/db/Ua6jd ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
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Re: ISCAT
Bill Duffy
Thanks!
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I'll look into it more! 73 Bill KA0VXK
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From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob KD7YZ Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 5:07 PM To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [dxlab] ISCAT On 8/16/2011 2:57 PM, Bill Duffy wrote: Another "Weak Signal Propagation" mode in the WSJT family. Developed by K1JT. http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjt.html We use it to make contacts, on 6m anyway, at ranges out of what is typically possible even with a beam and a lot of power. Signals are reported and measured in deep (-) dB values ... like -18db for example. The upshot is that you and I could have fun making contacts off of Meteors, or very weak Es conditions, out around 1100 miles when everyone else thought the band was closed. Your imagination can come up with all the possibilities. -- Bob, kd7yz ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
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Re: SQL search
Art K6XT <k6xt@...>
Probably cut'n pasted more than needed here but need both.
Al, I believe your query didn't work because not knowing any better I included the asterisk and " SELECT * FROM QSOs WHERE " Taking these out produces a result. This search takes a while in my log. It includes QSOs with QSL received = S and V, more than desired. Ian, while your query returned a group of QSOs it is not the same country list as the one produced by Dave's method using his RAT setup. Dave's returned countries not found in a list produced by your query. Later I will sort the differences and post. Its all good! I'm learning. -- 73 Art K6XT Allison, Colorado "One of the harshest lessons learned from recent disasters, especially Katrina, is that you are your own first responder." ...LtGen Russel Honore USA GMCC CWOps 728 NAQCC 1342 SDDXC ARRL TA ------------------------------ 2a. Re: sql search Posted by: "AB2ZY"akozak@... al_kozakiewicz Date: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:20 am ((PDT)) I'm at work and don't have access to any data or a running copy of DXlabs, but the SQL to do this with the QSOs table only is pretty simple: SELECT * FROM QSOs WHERE BAND="80M" AND DXCCID NOT IN (SELECT DXCCID FROM QSOs WHERE (QSL_Rcvd="Y" OR APP_DXKeeper_LoTW_QSL_RCVD="Y") AND BAND="80M") This should return all QSO's on 80M for DXCC entoties that have not been confirmed on 80M by either cards or LoTW. Al AB2ZY -- 73 Art K6XT Allison, Colorado "One of the harshest lessons learned from recent disasters, especially Katrina, is that you are your own first responder." ...LtGen Russel Honore USA GMCC CWOps 728 NAQCC 1342 SDDXC ARRL TA Messages in this topic (18) ________________________________________________________________________ 5c. Re: sql search Posted by: "iain macdonnell - N6ML"ar@dseven.org ar_n6ml Date: Tue Aug 16, 2011 5:05 pm ((PDT)) It's a bit of a sledge-hammer approach, but it does seem to work (I'm a little surprised that you can get away with it!). BTW, to consider QSLs that have been submitted or verified, it should really be: BAND='80M' AND DXCCID NOT IN (SELECT DXCCID FROM QSOs WHERE (QSL_Rcvd in ('Y','S','V') or APP_DXKeeper_LoTW_QSL_RCVD in ('Y','S','V')) and Band = '80M') A possible refinement to exclude QSOs for which a card has alredy been sent: BAND='80M' and QSL_Rcvd<> 'R' and DXCCID not in (SELECT DXCCID FROM QSOs WHERE (QSL_Rcvd in ('Y','S','V') or APP_DXKeeper_LoTW_QSL_RCVD in ('Y','S','V')) and Band = '80M') Cool ~iain / N6ML
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Re: Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector
Sorry, Pete, my bad. Try DXKeeper, Config, Awards. I have Marathon
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sub-panel all blank except 'Include QSOs with no prop mode' and 'Realtime Award Progress.' I also have max power filled out. Having done that, on SC I have checked the box 'Mrthn' to the left of the filter buttons. The result for me is that a new Marathon spot is colored red, just like an all-time new one. Right-clicking the spot and choosing award tracking shows what it is needed for. That is what I have set up... I pretty much know which are my all-time new ones so anything red gets my attention and if it isn't a known new DXCC then I know its a new Marathon for 2011. HTH! Chuck
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Hi Chuck, There is no Awards tab in DXV. I have found no box that allows --
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Re: How to print a single QSL Card ?
Richard B Drake
Yes it has come up before and it's not a problem. .jpg files can easily be converted to .bmp format using almost any photo processing software or even Windows Paint which is an integral part of all versions of Windows. Usually this is done by opening the .jpg file and using File>Save As... to save the image in .bmp format.
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See: <C:\DXLab\DXKeeper\Help\QSLConfiguration.htm> which contains a link to the "Microsoft Pain" documentation. 73, Rich - W3ZJ Kenneth Johansson wrote:
Another thing that has to do with printing out paper-QSLs: The background must be in bmp-format. I certainly don't have a lot of bmp-pictures on my computer but thousands of jpg-pictures. I guess that goes for most of us. Is there a way to use jpg-files as QSL-backgrounds?
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Re: Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector
Pete N4KW
Hi Chuck, There is no Awards tab in DXV. I have found no box that allows me to tell DXLab that I am chasing the CQ Marathon. Hopefully there is such a box, and if so, that could very well be my problem. However, up to this point I have been unable to find it. If you can recall where you found it
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please let me know. Please let me know how and in which columns of spot collector does it tell you which entities, and zones you need. I have Marathon box checked in SC. 73 Pete N4KW
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From: "Chuck Chandler" <chandlerusm@gmail.com> To: <dxlab@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [dxlab] Tracking Marathon with Spot Collector I just set up the Awards tab of DXV ( I think it was) to tell it I was
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Re: How to print a single QSL Card ?
Kenneth Johansson <kenjohan55@...>
Another thing that has to do with printing out paper-QSLs: The background must be in bmp-format. I certainly don't have a lot of bmp-pictures on my computer but thousands of jpg-pictures. I guess that goes for most of us. Is there a way to use jpg-files as QSL-backgrounds?
I bet this question has popped up b4. 73 Ken/SM4EMO ________________________________ From: Dave AA6YQ <aa6yq@ambersoft.com> To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:12 AM Subject: RE: [dxlab] How to print a single QSL Card ? -----Original Message-----AA6YQ comments below From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of 3t3 Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 1:02 AM To: Reflector-DXLab Subject: [dxlab] How to print a single QSL Card ? Hello everyone - In DX Keeper, in the QSL Tab, after clicking on the QSL Configuration button, in the Printer Tab, in the Media for QSL Cards section, in the SIZE pull down menu, there is a selection called "User Defined": Once I have selected "User Defined" how do (or where do) I go about actually defining it (specifying the definition's parameters) ? described in your printer's documentation, you could try calling theThat option is provided by your printer manufacturer. If it's not manufacturer's customer support department. 73, Dave, AA6YQ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: Would Like Callsign after Ham's Name on Envelope Label
On 8/17/2011 2:48 AM, Dave AA6YQ wrote:
Better. Thank You. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/qsllabel.jpg/ -- bob kd7yz
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Re: DK QSL Print center feed and slashed-zero ?
Koen
Hi Dave,
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When i put my card in the center feeder and i print , left or right, nothings printed on the card. If i feed the card left or right without using the gliders , the printing goes completely wrong and i get allways paperjam. Koen ON7RK
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Re: How to print a single QSL Card ?
3t3
Dave -
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OK, I will call Samsung tomorrow and let you know what I find out. By brute force experimentation I have discovered that if I tell DK to print a single card using QSL Media of "Envelope Monarch 3 7/8 X 7 1/2" I can get the center-feed printer to print on 8 1/2 X 11 inch paper with the correct vertical spacing for the printed card-image. Looking at the sheet of paper that comes out of the printer doing this (looking at the sheet of paper in Landscape orientation) the printed card-image would then only need to be shifted about 3 1/2 inches, in the extreme left direction, on the "page" so that it would print on the edge of the paper and in the right place if the sheet of paper paper were a card instead.. I think I then could insert an actual pre-cut QSL card instead of the 8 1/2 X 11 inch sheet of paper and it would print on the QSL card in the right place. Terry McCarty 3t3@comcast.net wa5nti Dave AA6YQ wrote:
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