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Edit Contact

Your Edit Contact Dialog will be similar to this one.

This screen gives the possibility to update contacts after they have been logged. The fields 'Country Prefix', 'Mult 1' and 'Mult 2' can't be updated because they are recalculated after each contact update.

The following modes are allowed to be entered in the 'Mode' field:

CW, CW-R, LSB, USB, RTTY, rtty-L, rtty-U, RTTY-R, AM, FM, PSK31, PKT, PAC2, GTOR, FSK31, PSK31, PSK63, PSK125, MT63, DIGI, BPSK, bpsk, SSTV, mfsk-L, mfsk-U, MFSK, MFSK8, MFSK16, HFSK, MTTY, THRB, ASCI, HELL, Q15, PCW.

To what country the program assigns a contact doesn't really matter, except for the *claimed* score. The assigned country does not appear in Cabrillo. You are not penalized for an incorrect claimed score.

The main reason for tracking down these things is for better information about what countries are needed during the contest.

Tip

When the program doesn't allow you to log a contact the way you want it, log it as the program expects it and edit the contact in this screen.

Example: A KG4 station calls and gives a state as exchange, this KG4 is in the USA. The program expects this KG4 to be in Guantanamo Bay and doesn't allow entering a state but wants a number. Enter a number which the program expects and edit the contact in this screen. Of course you have to update CTY.DAT to add the KG4 station so this won't happen again. See the Tips and Tricks section how to do this. Make a note using Ctrl+N so you can update the qso later.

When a contact has been updated and you are moving on to the next/previous qso with the up or down arrow keys the following screen will be shown.

• Yes - Save the changes made and move on to the next or previous qso in the log.
• No - Don't save the changes made and move on to the next or previous qso in the log.
• Cancel - Go back to the qso which has been changed but not saved.

1. Button Assignments

• Update - Update the log entry and exit the dialog returning to the last qso in the log.
• Delete - Removes a log entry from the current selected contest and exits the dialog returning to the last qso in the log.
  • When pressing the deleted button in a contest the following message will appear:
    • Yes, will move the qso to the DELETEDQS 'contest'
    • No, will cancel deleting the qso.

• When using multi-user mode it is only possible to delete a qso made on the station which made the qso.
  • Message: "You may not delete contacts logged by another station while in Multi-User mode. Ask station #radionumber to delete it. Delete not performed!"
• Help - Show the help file for this window.
• Exit - Exit this dialog without updating the log entry.
• Up Arrow - Go to the next entry towards the beginning of the log. Updated log entries can be saved.
• Down Arrow - Go to the next entry towards the end of the log. Updated log entries can be saved.

2. How to permanently delete a contact?

• Delete one QSO
  • Select a qso to delete in the log window
    • When pressing the deleted button the following message appears:
      • Yes, will delete the qso permanently from the DELETEDQS 'contest'
      • No, will cancel deleting the qso
    • It is not possible to select more than one qso and delete them. Deleting has to be done per qso.

• Delete all QSOs
  • Select the DELETEDQS 'contest'
    • File, Open Log in database, Select the DELETEDQS 'contest' in the 'Select Existing Log' dialog.
  • Delete the "DELETEDQS" contest by pressing the 'Delete' key. It will reappear with no QSOs.
    • A confirmation will be asked.

3. How to recover a deleted QSO?

This is not easily done. A possibility is to export the 'DELETEDQS' contest. Then import it into the contest from which it was deleted (ADIF). Before or after exporting you have to remove all the QSOs which you don't want to have imported. Always backup everything first.

• Open the DELETEDQS contest in the database.
• Left click on the contact you want to restore, then right click, select 'Copy/ADIF String'.
• Open the contest you want to paste it into.
• Right click in the log window and select 'Paste contacts'.

4. Why move and not delete?

A deleted contact in a contest is not permanently deleted but moved to the 'contest' DELETEDQS. This way a qso can be recovered when accidentally deleted. Permanently deleting the 'deleted' QSOs can be done in the 'DELETEDQS' contest. The technical reason to put the QSOs in another contest is that Access does not free space until you compact. It doesn't do any good to delete a qso, so why not just move it?