[DXLog.net - Support] Some comments after ARRL 10m

[Dave Sergeant]

I used DXLog.net (v2.0.21) this weekend in the ARRL 10m contest and had 
a few issues.

First the good. I particularly liked how DXL worked during the contest 
with everything easy to drive. I particularly praise its effective use 
of display screen area and during the contest I actually wondered what 
other windows I could open to fill the unused space. I find N1MM always 
has a problem to fit everything you want in, DXL is so far better in 
this respect. The states/provinces check window sorted by call prefixes 
is quite neat (pity I never heard any XE stations to check off the 
bottom two rows...).

Glitches... As previously reported, I found the Omnirig interface I am 
using with my K2 does not initialise properly at program start and I 
had to manually re-enable via the configuration menu. Nearly got caught 
out by this early Sunday morning.. Other than that the rig interface 
worked perfectly.

On one occasion the sent serial number in the entry window got 
corrupted for some reason - on my QSO 275 (as displayed correctly at 
the left) I noticed mid QSO that the one shown in the sent field had 
changed to 249, not clear why, but I had already started to send the 
wrong serial to the chap and had to correct.. Edited in the cabrillo at 
the end as there was no way to edit it live.

After the contest I duly exported my Cabrillo and ADIF files. I saw in 
the Cabrillo that it had POST-padded all the sent serials to four 
digits, ie my first QSO was shown as 1000, 2000 etc. Obviously meant to 
be PRE-padding.. There was no padding at all on the received serials, 
not sure if there is meant to be. The line LOCATION:  DX required by 
the robot was missing as well. Quite a lot of editing in Notepad to 
sort this out, but now done.

I notice that the exported ADIF does not contain the received serials 
and states, although it has the sent serials.

With all this sorted the log has now been submitted and accepted by the 
robot, I hope there are not any more gremlins. I remain a bit 
disillusioned with the program but realise it is still early days. 
Having just heard that a fairly significant glitch has been reported in 
SD maybe I don't feel so bad.... Thanks for all your work.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com