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Re: Old YU prefix for Yugoslavia in DXKeeper v9.6.4 - latest updates on all DBs

KE8G <ke8g@...>
 

Joe,
Thanks, yes currently it is called Serbia, but back in the 1980s it was Yugolslavia.

I want to log it under that country so I have an accurate DXCC count for all countires, active and deleted.

73 de Jim - KE8G

----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Subich, W4TV
To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [dxlab] Old YU prefix for Yugoslavia in DXKeeper v9.6.4 - latest updates on all DBs




The "old YU" is currently Serbia.

73,

... Joe, W4TV

On 9/7/2011 8:43 PM, KE8G wrote:
> I'm having a problem trying to enter some old QSLs (1980s) from Yugoslavia in DXKeeper.
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> I can't find that country in the drop down. I've fround the old Y21, Y22, etc Germany, and the old OK, Czechoslovakia, but not this one.
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> Am I just overlooking it?
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Re: Old YU prefix for Yugoslavia in DXKeeper v9.6.4 - latest updates on all DBs

Joe Subich, W4TV
 

The "old YU" is currently Serbia.

73,

... Joe, W4TV

On 9/7/2011 8:43 PM, KE8G wrote:
I'm having a problem trying to enter some old QSLs (1980s) from Yugoslavia in DXKeeper.

I can't find that country in the drop down. I've fround the old Y21, Y22, etc Germany, and the old OK, Czechoslovakia, but not this one.

Am I just overlooking it?





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Old YU prefix for Yugoslavia in DXKeeper v9.6.4 - latest updates on all DBs

KE8G <ke8g@...>
 

I'm having a problem trying to enter some old QSLs (1980s) from Yugoslavia in DXKeeper.

I can't find that country in the drop down. I've fround the old Y21, Y22, etc Germany, and the old OK, Czechoslovakia, but not this one.

Am I just overlooking it?
WWV SFI A & K in SPOTCOLLECTOR WINDOW

chuckstalkie
 

Good Evening...
In the Spot Collector Window, WWV SFI, A, & K are updated only once a day, at 0005 UTC. Is it possible to get this update more frequently??? If I miss a couple of days, I do not have the latest propagation at my disposal, until 8:05 P.M. EST.
73 Chuck KI4HJH
Re: SC verified color

Dave AA6YQ
 

AA6YQ comments below
-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
mljohnson54
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 3:40 PM
To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [dxlab] Re: SC verified color


Yes, Dave the box is green in the "Spot Database Display"

So, there is a problem and I don't need to do the screen shot thing???

If on the Awards tab of DXKeeper's Configuration window you have the
Marathon panel's "Realtime Award Progress" box checked, then cause of the
incorrect behavior is understood (and corrected) so there's no need to send
me a screen shot. Since this isn't a show-stopper defect (it's been present
for many months without anyone noticing) I'm going to cheat and add one
requested new capability before making a public release that includes the
correction.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Re: SC verified color

Dave AA6YQ
 

AA6YQ comments below
-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
mljohnson54
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 3:35 PM
To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [dxlab] Re: SC verified color


I agree it's just a special form of uneeded. However all mine are verified
via LoTW. If the text is green I know I really don't need it.
If it's black text with the yellow backgound I know to check to see if I
have it verified by card or LoTW. It by card the then I'll go ahead and work
the new spot that uses LoTW.

Would be nice if we could set different colors for confirmed by card, LoTW
or both.

Foreground color in the Log Page Display is used to identify potential
dupes.

You can setup buttons in the Filter panel at the bottom of the Main
window's "Log QSOs" panel that filter the Log Page Display for "confirmed
via card only", "confirmed via LotW only", and "confirmed via both Card and
LotW"; let me know if you need help doing this.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Re: SC verified color

iain macdonnell - N6ML
 

Hi Mike,

Dave has identified an issue with the "Verified" colouring, when
Realtime Award Tracking for Marathon is enabled. Assuming you have
that enabled, it's now a "known issue", so there shouldn't be any need
for a screenshot.

73,

~iain / N6ML

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:39 PM, mljohnson54 <kd4sn@insightbb.com> wrote:



Yes, Dave the box is green in the "Spot Database Display"

So, there is a problem and I don't need to do the screen shot thing???

Mike KD4SN

--- In dxlab@yahoogroups.com, "Dave AA6YQ" <aa6yq@...> wrote:

AA6YQ comment below
-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
iain macdonnell - N6ML
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 1:51 AM
To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [dxlab] SC verified color


Now that you mention it, I don't think I've seen the "Verified"
colo[u]r in SpotCollector in a while, so it may be broken (or I may be
misunderstanding its meaning). I'm looking at several spots for which
I have the entity verified on both the band and the mode, but they're
displayed in the "unneeded" colour. "Award Tracking" shows "verified"
for the top three rows in the DXCC column (and the fourth row is
blank).

You're right, Iain, it's broken if you have Realtime Award Tracking for
Marathon enabled. I've corrected this in the next version of SpotCollector.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Re: Verified status from LOTW

iain macdonnell - N6ML
 

Hi Jesper,

Unfortunately LotW does not provide an interface for programs to
download award credit data, so the next best option is for software to
pretend to be a browser, and parse the HTML that makes up the award
credit report that you can read through the LotW web interface. This
is a bit risky, as any change that the ARRL make to the LotW web
interface could break such an interface. That said, VE3NEA has a
solution for this - http://www.dxatlas.com/Misc/DxCred.zip - I've
never used it myself, but I believe it can extract your DXCC credits
from LotW and inject them into your DXKeeper database. I think Dave
may be working on a "native" solution for this in DXKeeper too...

73,

~iain / N6ML

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Jesper Wolf Jespersen <jesper@oz8ace.dk> wrote:



Hello Dave.

I have been using eQsl and LOTW for a while now and found out that I was
entitled to DXCC which i got.
Now quite a few of my QSL's have verified status in LOTW, but I cannot
see that status in DxKeeper.

Would it be possible to get the verified status from LOTW ?
I notice the response from LOTW states that only QSL status is reported,
does that mean you could ask for and receive the verified status as well ?

I am not really an award hunter but I would still like to be able to
track it if it could be done automatically.
I tried to request all the LOTW QSL's by pressing the <CTRL> key while
pressing the get LOTW qsl button, it gave me all the QSL's but no
verified status.

I want to thank you for a very nice suite of programs.
I have been using DxLabsuite exclusively for quite a number of years now.

Greetings from Denmark
Jesper Wolf Jespersen
OZ8ACE
Verified status from LOTW

Jesper Wolf Jespersen <jesper@...>
 

Hello Dave.

I have been using eQsl and LOTW for a while now and found out that I was entitled to DXCC which i got.
Now quite a few of my QSL's have verified status in LOTW, but I cannot see that status in DxKeeper.

Would it be possible to get the verified status from LOTW ?
I notice the response from LOTW states that only QSL status is reported, does that mean you could ask for and receive the verified status as well ?

I am not really an award hunter but I would still like to be able to track it if it could be done automatically.
I tried to request all the LOTW QSL's by pressing the <CTRL> key while pressing the get LOTW qsl button, it gave me all the QSL's but no verified status.

I want to thank you for a very nice suite of programs.
I have been using DxLabsuite exclusively for quite a number of years now.

Greetings from Denmark
Jesper Wolf Jespersen
OZ8ACE
Re: SC verified color

mljohnson54 <kd4sn@...>
 

Yes, Dave the box is green in the "Spot Database Display"

So, there is a problem and I don't need to do the screen shot thing???

Mike KD4SN

--- In dxlab@yahoogroups.com, "Dave AA6YQ" <aa6yq@...> wrote:

AA6YQ comment below
-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
iain macdonnell - N6ML
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 1:51 AM
To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [dxlab] SC verified color


Now that you mention it, I don't think I've seen the "Verified"
colo[u]r in SpotCollector in a while, so it may be broken (or I may be
misunderstanding its meaning). I'm looking at several spots for which
I have the entity verified on both the band and the mode, but they're
displayed in the "unneeded" colour. "Award Tracking" shows "verified"
for the top three rows in the DXCC column (and the fourth row is
blank).

You're right, Iain, it's broken if you have Realtime Award Tracking for
Marathon enabled. I've corrected this in the next version of SpotCollector.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Re: SC verified color

mljohnson54 <kd4sn@...>
 

I agree it's just a special form of uneeded. However all mine are verified via LoTW. If the text is green I know I really don't need it.
If it's black text with the yellow backgound I know to check to see if I have it verified by card or LoTW. It by card the then I'll go ahead and work the new spot that uses LoTW.

Would be nice if we could set different colors for confirmed by card, LoTW or both.

KD4SN Mike

--- In dxlab@yahoogroups.com, iain macdonnell - N6ML <ar@...> wrote:

Now that you mention it, I don't think I've seen the "Verified"
colo[u]r in SpotCollector in a while, so it may be broken (or I may be
misunderstanding its meaning). I'm looking at several spots for which
I have the entity verified on both the band and the mode, but they're
displayed in the "unneeded" colour. "Award Tracking" shows "verified"
for the top three rows in the DXCC column (and the fourth row is
blank).

Personally, instead of "Verified", I'd *much* rather have a colour for
"Unconfirmed entity" - that's much more interesting to me in terms of
how much attention that I need to pay attention to spots, vs. the
difference between "unneeded" and "verified" ("verified" is just a
special case of "unneeded", IMO).

~iain / N6ML


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:38 AM, mljohnson54 <kd4sn@...> wrote:



I have selected SC text to green for spots that I already have verified.
Sometime over the past week it has stoped printed in green and gone back to black. I've reset and selected green again but can't seem to fix the problem. Any ideas.

KD4SN Mike
Re: SC SQL filter

Chuck, WS1L
 

Thanks, Dave, that is simple and easy!

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Dave AA6YQ <aa6yq@ambersoft.com> wrote:

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AA6YQ comments below
-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
Chuck Chandler
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 9:05 PM
To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [dxlab] SC SQL filter

I have just added two filters to quickly filter for:

1. Only NA origin spots (NAE='Y' or NAM='Y' or NAW='Y')

2. Spots from all origins (NAE='Y' or NAM='Y' or NAW='Y' or EU='Y' or
SA='Y'
or AS='Y' or AF='Y' or OC='Y' or UN='Y')

Now I'd like to have this for Only NA origin spots that are needed (DX
entity band, mode, CQ zone band or mode unworked, including the Marathon)

The SQL expression for that is
((NAE='Y' or NAM='Y' or NAW='Y')) and <needfilter>

The goal is to be able to single-click to change the display from 'all
spots' to 'NA spots' to 'NA-spotted Needed.'

Also, the existing band and mode filters are kept with the 'Need' and the
'X' button. This makes lots of sense. How do I add those parameters to my
created filters so mine will also know the desired bands and modes? Could I
use

(NAE='Y' or NAM='Y' or NAW='Y') AND (Band='160' or Band='80' ...Band='6')
AND (Mode='SSB' or Mode='CW...Mode='RTTY') or is it more complex than that?

It's simpler than that:
((NAE='Y' or NAM='Y' or NAW='Y')) and <needfilter> and <bandfilter> and
<modefilter>

For more useful substitution commands, see
<http://www.dxlabsuite.com/spotcollector/Help/SQL.htm>

Doing so will hard-wire the bands and modes in the SQL, as opposed to using
whatever values might be checked in the Band and Mode check boxes that pop
up when those buttons are clicked. The best way would be to refer to those
pop-up box values but the other way would work.

That's what exactly <bandfilter> and <modefilter> do.
73,

Dave, AA6YQ




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Chuck Chandler
chandlerusm@gmail.com
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Re: VERY preliminary investigation

ART SEARLE <w2nra2@...>
 

It's a Fire Wire 800. Specifically, a G-Drive mobile 750 Gig Hitachi SATA, RPM 5400.

73, Art W2NRA

On Sep 6, 2011, at 11:47 PM, Rick Prather wrote:

Art,

Interesting!

Thanks for the feedback.

Just for reference, was that a FW 400 or 800 drive?

Rick
K6LE

On 9/6/2011, at 12:15 , ART SEARLE wrote:

Hi Rick,

You were right. I moved the Windows 7 virtual machine to the solid state drive and the delay using Parallels 6 is gone.

73, Art W2NRA



On Sep 5, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Rick Prather wrote:

Art,

Don't know why the lag but I suspect it's due to the external FW drive.

I run DXLab Suite on my iMac ( 2.8 C2D 4GB) under parallels on my internal drive and can't say that I notice any lag.

Rick
K6LE
Yahoo update

Dave AA6YQ
 

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired yesterday, and Yahoo's Board of Directors says that the company is for sale.

I doubt we'll see short-term instability in Yahoo Groups, but forewarned is forearmed...

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Re: SC verified color

Dave AA6YQ
 

AA6YQ comment below
-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
iain macdonnell - N6ML
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 1:51 AM
To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [dxlab] SC verified color


Now that you mention it, I don't think I've seen the "Verified"
colo[u]r in SpotCollector in a while, so it may be broken (or I may be
misunderstanding its meaning). I'm looking at several spots for which
I have the entity verified on both the band and the mode, but they're
displayed in the "unneeded" colour. "Award Tracking" shows "verified"
for the top three rows in the DXCC column (and the fourth row is
blank).

You're right, Iain, it's broken if you have Realtime Award Tracking for
Marathon enabled. I've corrected this in the next version of SpotCollector.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Re: SC verified color

Dave AA6YQ
 

AA6YQ comments below
-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
mljohnson54
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 1:38 AM
To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [dxlab] SC verified color


I have selected SC text to green for spots that I already have verified.
Sometime over the past week it has stoped printed in green and gone back to
black. I've reset and selected green again but can't seem to fix the
problem. Any ideas.

On the Configuration window's "Spot Database Display", what color is the
box to the immediate right of the "Font Colors" panel's "Verified DX"
button?

If this box is green, then please
1. locate a Spot Database Entry that you think should be rendered in green
font but is instead rendered in black font

2. Right-click this entry, and select the "Display Award Tracking" menu item
to display DXKeeper's "Award Tracking" window

3. Make a screen shot of the "Award Tracking" window, as described in

<http://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/ScreenShots>

4. attach the screen shot created in step 3 to an email message and send it
to me via aa6yq (at) ambersoft.com

Thanks...
73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Re: SC verified color

iain macdonnell - N6ML
 

Now that you mention it, I don't think I've seen the "Verified"
colo[u]r in SpotCollector in a while, so it may be broken (or I may be
misunderstanding its meaning). I'm looking at several spots for which
I have the entity verified on both the band and the mode, but they're
displayed in the "unneeded" colour. "Award Tracking" shows "verified"
for the top three rows in the DXCC column (and the fourth row is
blank).

Personally, instead of "Verified", I'd *much* rather have a colour for
"Unconfirmed entity" - that's much more interesting to me in terms of
how much attention that I need to pay attention to spots, vs. the
difference between "unneeded" and "verified" ("verified" is just a
special case of "unneeded", IMO).

~iain / N6ML

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:38 AM, mljohnson54 <kd4sn@insightbb.com> wrote:



I have selected SC text to green for spots that I already have verified.
Sometime over the past week it has stoped printed in green and gone back to black. I've reset and selected green again but can't seem to fix the problem. Any ideas.

KD4SN Mike
SC verified color

mljohnson54 <kd4sn@...>
 

I have selected SC text to green for spots that I already have verified.
Sometime over the past week it has stoped printed in green and gone back to black. I've reset and selected green again but can't seem to fix the problem. Any ideas.

KD4SN Mike
Re: Initial load of DXCC records into DXKeeper

Dave AA6YQ
 

AA6YQ comments below
-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
Jim McDonald
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 10:40 PM
To: DXLab Reflector
Subject: [dxlab] Initial load of DXCC records into DXKeeper


I gave Dave's PowerPoint presentation

<http://www.dxlabsuite.com/Presentations/>

to my local radio club this evening, and it was well received. Thanks very
much to Dave for creating
such a nice presentation.

Thanks for presenting it, Jim!
I was asked a question by a prospective new user that I couldn't answer. He
has only paper logs and QSL cards that he doesn't want to enter into
DXKeeper. Is there any way to load his DXCC records from LOTW into DXKeeper
to enable SpotCollector to flag new ones?

If by "DXCC records from LotW" you mean "DXCC credits from the DXCC desk
via the LotW web page", the answer is "not yet".

I've implemented this, but the initial implementation is too hard to use.
I'm in the process of re-implementing it in a manner that's easier to use,
but it hadn't occurred to me that ops who'd never used a logging application
before would be using this new mechanism to populate their log. This
realization will further raise the bar on useability...

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
Re: SC SQL filter

Dave AA6YQ
 

AA6YQ comments below
-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dxlab@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
Chuck Chandler
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 9:05 PM
To: dxlab@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [dxlab] SC SQL filter


I have just added two filters to quickly filter for:

1. Only NA origin spots (NAE='Y' or NAM='Y' or NAW='Y')

2. Spots from all origins (NAE='Y' or NAM='Y' or NAW='Y' or EU='Y' or SA='Y'
or AS='Y' or AF='Y' or OC='Y' or UN='Y')

Now I'd like to have this for Only NA origin spots that are needed (DX
entity band, mode, CQ zone band or mode unworked, including the Marathon)

The SQL expression for that is
((NAE='Y' or NAM='Y' or NAW='Y')) and <needfilter>

The goal is to be able to single-click to change the display from 'all
spots' to 'NA spots' to 'NA-spotted Needed.'

Also, the existing band and mode filters are kept with the 'Need' and the
'X' button. This makes lots of sense. How do I add those parameters to my
created filters so mine will also know the desired bands and modes? Could I
use

(NAE='Y' or NAM='Y' or NAW='Y') AND (Band='160' or Band='80' ...Band='6')
AND (Mode='SSB' or Mode='CW...Mode='RTTY') or is it more complex than that?

It's simpler than that:
((NAE='Y' or NAM='Y' or NAW='Y')) and <needfilter> and <bandfilter> and
<modefilter>

For more useful substitution commands, see
<http://www.dxlabsuite.com/spotcollector/Help/SQL.htm>


Doing so will hard-wire the bands and modes in the SQL, as opposed to using
whatever values might be checked in the Band and Mode check boxes that pop
up when those buttons are clicked. The best way would be to refer to those
pop-up box values but the other way would work.

That's what exactly <bandfilter> and <modefilter> do.
73,

Dave, AA6YQ
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