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I reviewed the QSL info in the documentation and can¡¯t quite find what I¡¯m looking for. Lately I¡¯ve been getting electronic QSLs emailed to me. I¡¯d like to be able to print QSO details on an electronic image (jpg file) ready for emailing. No need for labels or printing to paper. Can this be done in DX Lab Suite? Thanks for your help with this.
All best, Ed
Vy 73, Ed Jones W2LCQ
Frankford Radio Club
¡°Proficiency Through Competition¡±
BUG #204 CWops #701 (Life) SKCC #5474T
ARRL - RSGB
¡°The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.¡± ¡ª- Nicola Tesla
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DXKeeper does not support electronic image (jpg/pdf) QSLs.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
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On 7/1/2023 4:35 PM, Ed W2LCQ via groups.io wrote: I reviewed the QSL info in the documentation and can¡¯t quite find what I¡¯m looking for. Lately I¡¯ve been getting electronic QSLs emailed to me. I¡¯d like to be able to print QSO details on an electronic image (jpg file) ready for emailing. No need for labels or printing to paper. Can this be done in DX Lab Suite? Thanks for your help with this.
All best, Ed
Vy 73, Ed Jones W2LCQ
Frankford Radio Club
¡°Proficiency Through Competition¡±
BUG #204 CWops #701 (Life) SKCC #5474T
ARRL - RSGB
¡°The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.¡± ¡ª- Nicola Tesla
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+ AA6YQ comments below
Ed W2LCQ wrote:
I reviewed the QSL info in the documentation and can t quite find what I m looking for. Lately I ve been getting electronic QSLs emailed to me. I d like to be able to print QSO details on an electronic image (jpg file) ready for emailing. No need for labels or printing to paper. Can this be done in DX Lab Suite? Thanks for your help with this.
Joe W4TV responded
DXKeeper does not support electronic image (jpg/pdf) QSLs.
+ An image of a QSL card conveyed electronically is not valid for any award, thus on receiving such an image you should not mark the QSO as confirmed unless you don't care about maintaining accurate award progress. If desired, you could create a user-defined item called "QSL image" and track their receipt that way.
+ You can create an image of an outgoing QSL card by directing DXKeeper to generate an outgoing QSL card and clicking the "Copy to Clipboard" button at the top of the "Print Preview" window instead of actually printing the card. Then paste the contents of the Windows Clipboard to an image editing application like MSPaint, crop as desired, and save as a jpg that you can attach to an email message.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
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Dave, if I use your method, how do I tell DXKeeper to flag a QSL for printing?? Using the "R" field in the QSL sent section?? That's already been used, in some instances, for postal QSLs.? And, the Online ones are only LOTW and eQSL.? Can I use Sent Via IOTA or one of the others and "R" to flag them for the QSL tab?
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John, K2CIB
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+ AA6YQ comments below
Dave, if I use your method, how do I tell DXKeeper to flag a QSL for printing??
+ See steps 2a and 2b in
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? ? ? ? ? ? ?Dave, AA6YQ
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I have also gotten many of these. Some are nice cards, other's very generic with a "typewriter" font that's hard to read. I should just dump them but I have been answering since old habits die hard. I also send to eQSL, LOTW and CLublog automatically when the QSO is terminated.
I made up a card with Paint Shop Pro (any paint/art program will work) with everything, address, grid square, county etc but the QSO info. When I get a card, I look in DXK for the particular entry and highlight it and copy to clipboard in the popup. This goes to wordpad which I copy and in Paint Shop Pro, add it to the card I made which now has the needed info added in text. Save it and send it off.
Odd that when I copy to clipboard, I do not get all the info...i.e. the signal report is missing although it is in the log entry and was highlighted and maybe copied. No big deal...I just add the sig report. Is there a limit to what can be copied to the clipboard in DXK?
73 Ron K3LUE
DXLab user for 10 yrs and still learning.....
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+ AA6YQ comments below
I have also gotten many of these. Some are nice cards, other's very generic with a "typewriter" font that's hard to read. I should just dump them but I have been answering since old habits die hard. I also send to eQSL, LOTW and CLublog automatically when the QSO is terminated.
I made up a card with Paint Shop Pro (any paint/art program will work) with everything, address, grid square, county etc but the QSO info. When I get a card, I look in DXK for the particular entry and highlight it and copy to clipboard in the popup. This goes to wordpad which I copy and in Paint Shop Pro, add it to the card I made which now has the needed info added in text. Save it and send it off.
Odd that when I copy to clipboard, I do not get all the info...i.e. the signal report is missing although it is in the log entry and was highlighted and maybe copied. No big deal...I just add the sig report. Is there a limit to what can be copied to the clipboard in DXK?
+ As documented in
+ the "Copy to Windows Clipboard" right-mouse menu command copies the logged QSO's callsign, frequency (or frequencies), mode, date, time, DXCC prefix, and DXCC country to the Windows clipboard.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
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+ AA6YQ comments below
I have also gotten many of these. Some are nice cards, other's very generic with a "typewriter" font that's hard to read. I should just dump them but I have been answering since old habits die hard. I also send to eQSL, LOTW and CLublog automatically when the QSO is terminated.
I made up a card with Paint Shop Pro (any paint/art program will work) with everything, address, grid square, county etc but the QSO info. When I get a card, I look in DXK for the particular entry and highlight it and copy to clipboard in the popup. This goes to wordpad which I copy and in Paint Shop Pro, add it to the card I made which now has the needed info added in text. Save it and send it off.
Odd that when I copy to clipboard, I do not get all the info...i.e. the signal report is missing although it is in the log entry and was highlighted and maybe copied. No big deal...I just add the sig report. Is there a limit to what can be copied to the clipboard in DXK?
+ Rather than generate a QSL card image populated with QSO information and place it in the Windows Clipboard, perhaps a new "Generate text QSL" right-mouse menu command could be an augmented version of the current "Copy to Windows Clipboard" command that include signal reports and the "QSL Message" item (if logged). This could be generated in multi-line format, e.g.
Callsign: ZS8W
Frequency: 14.087
Mode: FT8
Date: 2025-04-28
Time: 07:58:45Z
Notes: Tnx QSL!
73 de AA6YQ
+ and quickly pasted into a return email message.
+Comments, suggestions, better ideas?
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
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My feelings are that although these e-cards are not valid for any awards, they are still "the final courtesy" being sent by the other operator.? I have started to get a few, so I would be in favor of a quick way to reply to those that I do receive.
+ AA6YQ comments below
I have also gotten many of these. Some are nice cards, other's very generic with a "typewriter" font that's hard to read. I should just dump them but I have been answering since old habits die hard. I also send to eQSL, LOTW and CLublog automatically when the QSO is terminated.
I made up a card with Paint Shop Pro (any paint/art program will work) with everything, address, grid square, county etc but the QSO info. When I get a card, I look in DXK for the particular entry and highlight it and copy to clipboard in the popup. This goes to wordpad which I copy and in Paint Shop Pro, add it to the card I made which now has the needed info added in text. Save it and send it off.
Odd that when I copy to clipboard, I do not get all the info...i.e. the signal report is missing although it is in the log entry and was highlighted and maybe copied. No big deal...I just add the sig report. Is there a limit to what can be copied to the clipboard in DXK?
+ Rather than generate a QSL card image populated with QSO information and place it in the Windows Clipboard, perhaps a new "Generate text QSL" right-mouse menu command could be an augmented version of the current "Copy to Windows Clipboard" command that include signal reports and the "QSL Message" item (if logged). This could be generated in multi-line format, e.g.
Callsign: ZS8W
Frequency: 14.087
Mode: FT8
Date:? 2025-04-28
Time:? 07:58:45Z
Notes: Tnx QSL!
73 de AA6YQ
+ and quickly pasted into a return email message.
+Comments, suggestions, better ideas?
? ? ? ? 73,
? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dave, AA6YQ
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On 2025-04-30 5:44 PM, Chuck, WS1L via groups.io wrote: My feelings are that although these e-cards are not valid for any
awards, they are still "the final courtesy" being sent by the other
operator. I do not view unsolicited commercial e-mail (yes, these e-mail QSL operations are commercial) as a courtesy. It is an invasion of my privacy just like any other unsolicited commercial e-mail (SPAM). so I would be in favor of a quick way to reply to those that I do
receive. I am strongly opposed to anything that would encourage this liddish behavior. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2025-04-30 5:44 PM, Chuck, WS1L via groups.io wrote: My feelings are that although these e-cards are not valid for any awards,
they are still "the final courtesy" being sent by the other operator. I
have started to get a few, so I would be in favor of a quick way to reply
to those that I do receive.
73 de Chuck, WS1L
chandlerusm@...
On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 5:01?PM Dave AA6YQ via groups.io <aa6yq=
[email protected]> wrote:
+ AA6YQ comments below
I have also gotten many of these. Some are nice cards, other's very
generic with a "typewriter" font that's hard to read. I should just dump
them but I have been answering since old habits die hard. I also send to
eQSL, LOTW and CLublog automatically when the QSO is terminated.
I made up a card with Paint Shop Pro (any paint/art program will work)
with everything, address, grid square, county etc but the QSO info. When I
get a card, I look in DXK for the particular entry and highlight it and
copy to clipboard in the popup. This goes to wordpad which I copy and in
Paint Shop Pro, add it to the card I made which now has the needed info
added in text. Save it and send it off.
Odd that when I copy to clipboard, I do not get all the info...i.e. the
signal report is missing although it is in the log entry and was
highlighted and maybe copied. No big deal...I just add the sig report. Is
there a limit to what can be copied to the clipboard in DXK?
+ Rather than generate a QSL card image populated with QSO information and
place it in the Windows Clipboard, perhaps a new "Generate text QSL"
right-mouse menu command could be an augmented version of the current "Copy
to Windows Clipboard" command that include signal reports and the "QSL
Message" item (if logged). This could be generated in multi-line format,
e.g.
Callsign: ZS8W
Frequency: 14.087
Mode: FT8
Date: 2025-04-28
Time: 07:58:45Z
Notes: Tnx QSL!
73 de AA6YQ
+ and quickly pasted into a return email message.
+Comments, suggestions, better ideas?
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
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If there are some people which like to send such a card I still believe it is just polite to respond to them. If some in this group and probably many others consider those cards to be spam it is also ok for me and then those which don't like should handle those emails in the same way as they do with spam-mails which have passed through the spam filter. But considering the increase in the usage of those electronic qsls I strongly believe that DXLab should support this development somehow even though those cards cannot be used for any award at the moment.? Might be that there is also a way in the future to include a verification code in those cards, and such a verification would be even better than the standard signature on a paper qsl.
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In Dave's proposal I am missing the report which still makes sense for FT8 and similar modes (the standard 59 in SSB and 599 in CW is not interesting at all, but in some real CW qso's (not only exchange of 599 tu). I still find some people giving me 529, 559 or another real report, so I would not like to miss the report. When implementing such a feature I would appreciate to have some automation in the logbook information update when receiving and responding to an electronic qsl.
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I remember we had a similar discussion several months ago, and as this topic is coming up again it means (at least for me) that there is some growing interest in finding a comfortable solution for a program like DXKeeper which is already covering nearly all my needs for my radio activities.
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73
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Juergen, DL8LE
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That sounds like a good workable idea. Since I'm cutting out just the info and not the heading of that info. I don't include "Band:" or "Freq" but it could be added especially if someone is interested in including info from a split operation. Otherwise 10M or 28.010 or "2025 04 22 - 22:15" speaks for itself. My format then is in the horizontal just the way it comes off the DXK logsheet. It could be any configuration and the heading might make it more elegant but probably not a necessity. In my case, I am not interested in the grid square or county being included since that is on the card already and if someone is pasting this into an already built card, any info like that could be just part of the card.? I spent a little time putting together the card template and anyone familiar with a paint program could do it easily. Great piece of icing on the cake for an already excellent piece of coding.?
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In Dave's proposal I am missing the report which still makes sense for FT8 and similar modes (the standard 59 in SSB and 599 in CW is not interesting at all, but in some real CW qso's (not only exchange of 599 tu). I still find some people giving me 529, 559 or another real report, so I would not like to miss the report. When implementing such a feature I would appreciate to have some automation in the logbook information update when receiving and responding to an electronic qsl.
+ Thanks, Juergen, I meant to add signal reports. How about SNR for K1JT-mode QSOs, and RST for everything else? Callsign: ZS8WFrequency: 14.087Mode: FT8Date: 2025-04-28Time: 07:58:45Z
SNR: -10
Notes: Tnx QSL!
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73 de AA6YQ
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Callsign: VK9XU
Frequency: 7.012
Mode: CW
Date: 2025-02-19
Time: 23:25:20Z
RST: 599
Notes: Tnx QSL!
73 de AA6YQ
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73,
Dave, AA6YQ
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It's the age old story....if it's there as an option....that means "option" and the very definition of the word should explain what the user can do. I personally don't need any cards...I have boxes of them and already have those I need for confirmation of this and that as far as any awards I'm still interested in. I'd use it, and since the electronic method of QSLing is not going to disappear, feel others would as well.? If not, I will continue the method I'm presently using but evolving and adapting is a way of life which does not stop in the sphere of amateur radio.
Have at it Dave and anyone might agree that this suite needs very little in the way of additional options, but options are hardly a bad thing and use of those options is the operator's choice entirely.
73 Ron K3LUE
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It's the age old story....if it's there as an option....that means "option" and the very definition of the word should explain what the user can do. I personally don't need any cards...I have boxes of them and already have those I need for confirmation of this and that as far as any awards I'm still interested in. I'd use it, and since the electronic method of QSLing is not going to disappear, feel others would as well.? If not, I will continue the method I'm presently using but evolving and adapting is a way of life which does not stop in the sphere of amateur radio.
Have at it Dave and anyone might agree that this suite needs very little in the way of additional options, but options are hardly a bad thing and use of those options is the operator's choice entirely.
+ The world is constantly changing; applications must change with it. Making it easy to respond to email QSLs will add no new options, but will add one new entry to the Log Page Display's right-mouse menu. ? ? ?73, ? ? ? ? ? ? Dave, AA6YQ
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Would be ok for me. Thank you very much for your efforts.
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73
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Juergen, DL8LE
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+ Thanks, Juergen, I meant to add signal reports. How about SNR for K1JT-mode QSOs, and RST for everything else?
Callsign: ZS8W
Frequency: 14.087
Mode: FT8
Date: 2025-04-28
Time: 07:58:45Z
SNR: -10
Notes: Tnx QSL!
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73 de AA6YQ
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Callsign: VK9XU
Frequency: 7.012
Mode: CW
Date: 2025-02-19
Time: 23:25:20Z
RST: 599
Notes: Tnx QSL!
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Hi all,
Until recently, I was getting 5 or more electronic QSL's from numerous sources, until I took my email address out of QRZ and put it in my bio with an (at) instead of the @ sign.
I did try unsubscribing from two sites, but that did not stop emailed QSL's from arriving here. I also noticed that all were already confirmed via LoTW, so I really did not see the point of this spam. If they were from folk that do not use LoTW, I would have responded (via email) to suggest that if they want a card, then use the bureau, as an electronic card is not valid for anything.
From what I can see, these electronic cards are simply an ADIF dump to one of these services, and not personalised at all, which is pointless.
I therefore totally agree with Joe on this.
73 de Phil GU0SUP
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W4TV Sent: 30 April 2025 22:59 To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [DXLab] Electronic QSL On 2025-04-30 5:44 PM, Chuck, WS1L via groups.io wrote: My feelings are that although these e-cards are not valid for any
awards, they are still "the final courtesy" being sent by the other
operator. I do not view unsolicited commercial e-mail (yes, these e-mail QSL operations are commercial) as a courtesy. It is an invasion of my privacy just like any other unsolicited commercial e-mail (SPAM). so I would be in favor of a quick way to reply to those that I do
receive. I am strongly opposed to anything that would encourage this liddish behavior. 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 2025-04-30 5:44 PM, Chuck, WS1L via groups.io wrote: My feelings are that although these e-cards are not valid for any awards,
they are still "the final courtesy" being sent by the other operator. I
have started to get a few, so I would be in favor of a quick way to reply
to those that I do receive.
73 de Chuck, WS1L
chandlerusm@...
On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 5:01?PM Dave AA6YQ via groups.io <aa6yq=
[email protected]> wrote:
+ AA6YQ comments below
I have also gotten many of these. Some are nice cards, other's very
generic with a "typewriter" font that's hard to read. I should just dump
them but I have been answering since old habits die hard. I also send to
eQSL, LOTW and CLublog automatically when the QSO is terminated.
I made up a card with Paint Shop Pro (any paint/art program will work)
with everything, address, grid square, county etc but the QSO info. When I
get a card, I look in DXK for the particular entry and highlight it and
copy to clipboard in the popup. This goes to wordpad which I copy and in
Paint Shop Pro, add it to the card I made which now has the needed info
added in text. Save it and send it off.
Odd that when I copy to clipboard, I do not get all the info...i.e. the
signal report is missing although it is in the log entry and was
highlighted and maybe copied. No big deal...I just add the sig report. Is
there a limit to what can be copied to the clipboard in DXK?
+ Rather than generate a QSL card image populated with QSO information and
place it in the Windows Clipboard, perhaps a new "Generate text QSL"
right-mouse menu command could be an augmented version of the current "Copy
to Windows Clipboard" command that include signal reports and the "QSL
Message" item (if logged). This could be generated in multi-line format,
e.g.
Callsign: ZS8W
Frequency: 14.087
Mode: FT8
Date: 2025-04-28
Time: 07:58:45Z
Notes: Tnx QSL!
73 de AA6YQ
+ and quickly pasted into a return email message.
+Comments, suggestions, better ideas?
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
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Ron T
Chuck, WS1L
Phil Cooper