DX4WIN is great for 2-way QSLing! But it is a total mess up with SWL cards.
Better write them manually!
And to warn you - there are some crucial bugs in those features Pete
mentioned:
1. REMOVE DUPLICATE QSLs button.
If you have have received 2 QSLs from a certain station for QSOs on the same
band and mode combination in different times and you have either one or both
of those
QSOs marked as LABEL-Y for printing a label then after pushing the Remove
Duplicate
QSLs button both LABELs are turned to N! For some strange reason the program
treats the situation as if you had already sent a QSL! And you will never
know that you have not replied and you will be in debt!
2. MARK QSOs GOING TO THE SAME STATION OR MANAGER button.
MAILED CUTOFF does not work for Managers when pushing MARK QSOs GOING TO...
button. All QSLs going to the same manager are always marked again not
taking account the QSL Date.
So those two bugs unfortunately render those extremely convinient and well
intended features practically useless...
73
tonno
es5tv
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: "ted demopoulos" <kr1g@hotmail.com>; <Cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Weapons of Mass QSLing
> At 03:10 AM 8/12/03 +0000, ted demopoulos wrote:
> >OK Blanket QSLers,
> >
> >Whattaya using for QSLing software. Although I have never mass/blanket
> >QSLed before, people keep insisting on showing up and working 4 or 5
> >thousand Qs in a weekend. And LoTW, as mindblowing and amazing as it will
> >eventually be (I did play a wee little part in it, so I'm NOT sarcastic),
> >isn't an immediate solution
> >
>
> I use DX4WIN. It has a function built in to select QSOs to be confirmed
on
> the basis of one QSL per band/mode combination. My hope originally was
> that I would quickly ramp down the percentage of QSOs that required QSLs,
> but this has not happened, at least not to the extent I thought. I think
> that simply demonstrates how important the casual contest ops are to
> serious contesters. Clearly, I'm still working my way through them...
>
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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