You may sort QSOs by DXCC Country. Twelve OMISS reports were added. The program now imports and exports ADIF and imports WB2DND and all 7 Cabrillo files. Three new Dutch Awards have been added. The Microsoft File Dialog Box is now used to select files for imports. There was an error in the ADIF import that would hang the program. There was an error in displaying the GMT time. These have been fixed. I apologize for any problems.
January 19, 2003: Added 12 new reports for 10-10 International Awards. Added a NEED / WORKED / CONFIRMED report for US County Hunters that includes all the US Counties. Fixed the error in the Day / Month / Year date format.
February 1, 2003: Implemented simple contesting duplicate checker. Added 12 new reports for 10-10 International Awards. Added a NEED / WORKED / CONFIRMED report for US County Hunters that includes all the US Counties. Added the United States Islands Award Program. Fixed the error in the Day / Month / Year date format.
February 9, 2003: Added Worked All Britain Award, RSGB IARU Region 1 and Commonweath Club Awards and Canadian Islands Award. Added several command buttons to make it easier to use the program.
February 23, 2003: Suppose you recently worked PW0T. When you enter the call, the DXCC Country is one of Trinidad, Fernando de Noronha or St. Peter & St. Paul. Once you pick the correct DXCC Country it would be nice if PW0T gets resolved to that country the next time so you don't have to manually adjust the DXCC Country for every QSO. This feature was requested by some one who has not yet purchased Paper Chasers' Log, but I thought it was a great idea, so I put it in the program. There is also a generalized, user defined import for Comma Separated Value, CSV, files. This will allow you to import files from spread sheets and home brew QSO logging programs.
February 26, 2003: ERROR IN PROGRAM An error was reported in Paper Chasers' Log. The error was fixed within six hours of it being reported. Yes, I agree there should have not been an error to begin with. My apologies.
March 2, 2003: Several more awards were added with many more to come. K1BV's web site, DXAWARDS.COM , is quite excellent.
March 8, 2003: More Awards. Now well over 100 Awards supported by Paper Chasers' Log.
March 15, 2003: Added import for WJ2O logging program files and a report that shows all information for all QSOs. There was an error in the recognition of special prefixes in DXLog files.
April 4, 2003: Several awards were added. A lookup for 10-10 numbers was added. When you enter a call, the 10-10 number for that call will be shown and the 10-10 Award will be filled in. There is another file in the installation and update, tenten.dat, which contains the 10-10 numbers. A data import for WIN 1010 was added. HERMES #4455 labels were added to the labels. Common Dialog Boxes were added for printing reports and writing reports to disk
April 5, 2003: Another report has been added for Ten Ten paper chasers. You can separately list the QSOs you have had with each of the 90 Ten Ten Chapters.
April 18, 2003: An error in label printing was fixed and a simplified method of printing labels was added.
April 24, 2003: Added a seven more reports for CCN awards; a DXCC detail report that shows need / worked / confirmed by DXCC Country / Band / Mode; two additional awards ARLHS Numbers and all 10,099 ARLHS Light houses.
April 26, 2003: ERROR IN PROGRAM There was an error in the DXLog data file import. It has been corrected. Sorry for the inconvenience.
May 5, 2003: Added data import for DXtreme. Improved data import for WIN1010
May 12, 2003: Improved data import for ADIF files. Added ability to enter dates as mmddyy, mm/dd/yy, ddmmyy or dd/mm/yy
May 19, 2003: Every other line in the scroll area is shaded to make it easier to read the entries. When you enter a US call, the Worked All Counties award is filled in along with the Worked All States award. You may sort the QSOs by the various columns in the scroll area.
June 1, 2003: 1,000 QSOs are displayed in the scoll area, making it easier to look at your QSOs. The ADIF data file import and export routines were improved. Two new awards were added, German DOKs and Japanese Kus.
June 15, 2003: There is an automatic lookup of ARLHS member numbers. You will need to download the ARLHS.DAT file to use this feature, which is optional. Reports my be selected by QRO or QRP. A data import for CCN / BML files has been added.
June 16, 2003: Fixed yet another problem with the ADIF file import.
June 22, 2003: Improved the OMISS reports. Made a change to DXCC prefixes. Improved the BMLLOG import. Be sure to get the most recent version of BMLLOG from the 3905 CCN web site before using the data import.
July 1, 2003: Fixed an error in the BMLLOG data import. Added CCN 1,000 and 2,000 Point Number Awards. Added Poker Players Award to CCN Awards.
July 4, 2003: Completed the Worked All Britain, WAB, reports. Also added WAB Book Numbers award. Many thanks to the WAB Committee for their help
July 20, 2003: There is a new dxcc.dat file. There were two entries for Comoros and Palestine, one for the current entry and one for the deleted entry. The entries have been changed to Comoros, Comoros (D), Palestine and Palestine (D) which will make it easier to select the correct DXCC Country. A (D) was also added to the names of the other deleted DXCC Countries. Please download and install this file before downloading and installing the most recent update.
July 21,2003: The update procedure has been improved. In fact there is no update procedure any more after this one. After this update, you simply download the update and replace your existing files with the files in the update.
July 26, 2003: Additional tweaks to the ADIF data import. There are two new screens which will help you participate in nets and record net QSOs. You select the net on one screen and then enter the calls of the stations as they check into the net on a second screen.
August 2, 2003: You may now track five awards per QSO. There is a new report that shows all QSOs with a specific DXCC Country. There is an interface to the Buckmaster HamCall QSL data CD. The data on this CD is vastly superior to the data available in my na.zip files. I recommend that you use the Buckamster HamCall CD in preference to na.zip. Interfaces with other QSL data CDs will be added shortly.
August 7, 2003: All of the awards in Paper Chasers' Log are beginning to make it difficult to track the handfull of awards that a user might actually be interested in. Now you can edit the awards file so that Paper Chasers' Log only tracks the awards you want to track. As a result, the awards.dat file is no longer included in the updateXX.zip file. Error 30009 had occured for one user and it was fixed. There was also some tweaking to the net tracking screen.
August 11, 2003: Fixed an error when sorting QSOs by band. Several tweaks to make Paper Chasers' Log easier to use.
August 15, 2003: Fixed errors in distance / heading calculation. Added access to the Buckmaster online Call Book Server. If you have an account with Buckmaster, you can now access their online Call Book from Paper Chasers' Log. Added RSARS & RNARS awards.
August 20, 2003: Program Error. I made it impossible to make selections from the pull down menus on the main screen
August 23, 2003: Program Error. I missed one of the locked pull down menus on the main screen.
August 25, 2003: Two more errors. One in the ADIF export and the other in calculating heading / distance when you edit a QSO.
August 28, 2003: Added the Postal Award to the OMISS Awards.
September 5, 2003: Added reports for the HHH Net
September 12, 2003: Another adjustment to the heading / distance calculation. Some other minor fixes.
September 19, 2003: fixed an error in the DXCC Country look up and display. Added access to the online eQSL data base. You may automatically send your QSO data to the eQSL data base.
September 22, 2003: Fixed an error in the ham call info CD ROM access.
October 3, 2003: Updated Amateur Radio Light Houses Society, ARLHS, award entries. There are now 10,375 lighthouses. Added 13 reports for the ARLHS awards. Made it easier to specify military QSOs for the OMISS awards. A backup file of the QSO data is created when you start Paper Chasers' Log.
October 12, 2003: The form is now the full size of the screen on a 600 x 800 resolution monitor. The extra space was used to increase the type size from 10 point to 12 point. Fixed the OMISS Spelling Bee Report. Changed the ADIF export for IOTA to show only the first six characters, leaving off the descriptive part. Made another fix to the distance / heading calculation. Added access to the QRZ web page and the QRZ CD for call book info.
October 19, 2003: Made a change to the Net Logging screen; prior QSOs were reported as new calls. Calls with a zero in them were exported with a slash zero in the ADIF export. This has been corrected. Yet another tweak to the heading / distance calculations. If the call book information for a call does not have longitude and latitude information, then the longitude and latitude information for the DXCC country is used.
October 26, 2003: The screen that shows the results when you find a call, prefix or DXCC country appears on top of the logbook screen in all cases. The postal abbreviation for Louisiana in awards.dat was changed from LS to LA.
November 30, 2003: Full compliance with the ARRL LoTW ADIF file format requirements. You can save the data at any time, not just when you exit the program.
December 8, 2003: Serbia and Montenegro was added to the Council of Europe Award. The G-QRP member number award was added. You should download the updated awards.dat file. See below.
December 25, 2003: Improved the user defined data import. Changes to label printing
January 12, 2004: Fix to ADIF import routine. Error was introduced when the LOTW integration was done.
January 25, 2004: When you edit an exisitng QSO you may either create a new QSO or just save the changes to the existing QSO. Added three awards: French Departments, Italian Provinces and Spanish Provinces.
February 25, 2004: The file for Worked All Britain squares, WABs, wab.dat, is part of the installation file. You do not need to download wab.dat seperately. Several Awards were added: Vasco de Gama, Portugese Districts & Regions, Islands of the World, Indian Ocean Countries, Pacific Ocean Countries, Carribean Countries and Mediterranian Countries.
March 14, 2004: Added British Amateur Radio Teledata Group, BARTG, awards, prefix awards for Finland, Croatia and Lituania, updated ARLHS member data file, arlhs.dat, fixed an error in the CCN Poker award report, improved the ADIF export
March 27, 2004: The captital of Delaware in the awards.dat file was corrected from Wilmington to Dover. When you replace your exisitng awards.dat file with the new one, all QSOs with the State Capital of Delaware will lose their award listing. Before you replace the award.dat file, go through your QSOs to determine which QSOs will need to be edited.
May 10, 2004: Updated awards.dat to reflect changes to the European Union Award
June 1, 2004: Fixed error on Net selector screen
July 28, 2004: The spelling for Itasca County in Minnesota was incorrect, Itasa. I fixed this. If you install the new awards.dat file you will need to fix all QSOs where the county was Minnesota / Itasa.