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-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@... [mailto:dxlab@...]On Behalf Of
Tad Danley
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 7:01 PM
To: dxlab@...
Subject: Re: [dxlab] printing mailing labels


Dave AA6YQ wrote:

Tad Danley wrote:

What is the procedure to print mailing labels - specifically, labels for
all of the QSOs on my VUCC progress report. Since the ARRL does not
_yet_ offer VUCC via LotW, I need to print them all regardless of
whether they have been confirmed via LotW.

Do you only need address labels, or do you also need QSL labels that

can

be affixed to an outgoing QSL card?

Thanks Dave - I need both!

+++ OK. The basic procedure is

1. set the "QSL Via" panel on the Main window's QSL tab to either 2-column
labels or 3-column labels, as desired

2. populate the QSL Queue with QSOs for which labels are to be generated

3. invoke the Address Editor to specify an address for each QSL Queue entry
rendered in red font (double-click the entry)

4. create an Address File and review it to ensure that all addresses are
correctly formatted

4. print QSL labels from the QSL Queue

5. print address labels from the QSL Queue

+++Regarding step 2, DXKeeper can at present automatically populate the QSL
Queue with QSOs needed for the ARRL DXCC family or awards, and for the CQ
WAZ family of awards; for other awards, you must manually add needed QSOs to
the QSL queue. I'd been thinking about providing the option to automatically
populate the QSL Queue with needed QSOs when generating a progress report
for the other awards supported by DXKeeper; each of these reports lists
"counters" for which there's a worked-but-unconfirmed QSO, so it would be
straightforward to insert each worked-but-unconfirmed QSO into the QSL Queue
rather than require the user to manually locate and add each unconfirmed QSO
to the QSL Queue. The challenge is providing a way to let the user specify
whether or not the QSL Queue should be populated with unconfirmed QSOs when
generating a progress report -- without displaying an annoying prompt each
time a progress report is generated, and without having the QSL Queue be
unintentionally populated by subsequent progress reports because the user
forgot to disable the option. Your request prompted me to think harder about
this, and I came up with the idea of adding an "Add Unconfirmed to QSL
Queue" checkbox in the lower-left corner of the Main window's "Check
Progress" tab, as shown here:

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+++When you start DXKeeper, this box will be unchecked. If you check this
box before initiating a progress report, then any QSOs identified as needed
but unconfirmed in this report will be added to the QSL Queue -- and the box
will automatically be unchecked after the report is generated. Thus anyone
not interested in generating outgoing QSLs when running a progress report
won't be bothered by this new capability; if you do want to generated needed
QSLs, check the box before clicking the button to generate the progress
report.

+++I have constructed a new version of DXKeeper that implements this
capability, but only for the VUCC progress report. I'll email it to you
shortly, so you can give it a try. If it works out, I'll extend this
capability to all the other progress reports that DXKeeper generates (except
DXCC and WAZ). If anyone else would like to try this new version of
DXKeeper, send email to me at aa6yq@... from an email account that
will accept a zip archive containing an executable file as an attachment
(e.g. not gmail).

+++If you haven't generated labels before, Tad, you'll need to configure
DXKeeper to correctly print the labels of your choice using the "QSL Labels"
and "Envelopes" tabs on the "QSL Config" window. I suggest loading your
printer with inexpensive paper while you do this. The procedure is described
in < with Paper>, but
don't hesitate to post any questions or concerns here.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ