DXKeeper 18.1.4 automatically adds new several new fields to the current log's IOTA progress table in support of the new IOTA HF and VHF award categories, but makes no changes to the database table that contains your QSOs. Thus it does not offer to backup your log. Upgrade DXKeeper to version 18.1.4 before you upgrade SpotCollector to version 9.9.2.

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If you have the "Realtime Award Progress" box checked in the IOTA panel on the Configuration window's Awards tab, then like its predecessors this version will direct DXLab to pursue "IOTA Mixed". Since IOTA no longer offers this award, you may wish to uncheck the Mixed box in the IOTA panel on the Configuration window's Awards tab and check the HF and/or VHF boxes in that panel. Then click the Recompute button at the bottom of the Configuration window's Awards tab.

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Specifically, this version

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- prevents an errorlog.txt entry in DXCCCreditUI.DXCCCreditGrid_FetchCellTips when DXCC Credits have never been downloaded (tnx to Don AD0K)

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- corrects explanatory popup explanations associated with Region items (tnx to Eddy ON5JK)

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- provides the "Sync All" buttons with explanatory popups

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- prevents "the Sync All" command from generating "Bad file name or number" errorlog entries (tnx to Salvatore I4FYV)

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- prevents a superfluous SyncAll button from appearing in the lower-right corner of the Main window's "Check Progress" tab (tnx to John N4QWF)

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- when updating a logged QSO to reflect LoTW confirmation results in a change in the logged QSO's DXCC entity or CQ zone due to the resolution of a discrepancy between the information in the logged QSO and the information reported by LoTW, this version correctly updates Realtime Award Tracking for Marathon if it is enabled (tnx to Joe W4TV)

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- prevents a "program error 52 in module ADIF.GenerateResultsHeader" errorlog entry when LoTW reports a QSO not present in the current log (tnx to Joe W4TV)

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- starts "Sync eQSL QSLs" by checking eQSL.cc accessibility in a user-abortable manner (tnx to Joe W4TV)

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- recognizes the new "Rejected" response when uploading a QSO to Club Log (tnx to Joe W4TV)

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- enables the display of multiline messages from QSLing services (tnx to Ian VK6DW)

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- if the Sync Club Log QSLs, Sync LoTW QSOs, Sync LoTW QSLs, or Sync QRZL QSLs functions are invoked with a blank date beneath them, prompts the user to specify a valid date (tnx to Joe WQ6Q)

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- adds a "QSL to Windows Clipboard" command to the Log Page Display's right-mouse menu

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- corrects a defect in the calculation of the "Mixed Score by Band" and "Mixed Score by Mode" sections of the DX Marathon progress report (tnx to Carlo? IK2RPE)

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- prevents "Subscript out of range?errors" in MarathonModule.GenerateMarathonProgressReport and recovers from program errors in that procedure (tnx to Joe W4TV)

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- renames the 'Marathon Year, Category, and Score Sheet Information' window to 'Marathon Year and Submission Information', and renames the button in the Marathon Bands & Modes panel (Configuration window, Awards tab) that displays it to 'Year and Submission Info'

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- prevents an "Object doesn't support this property or method" error when switching Main window tabs after defining a new myQTH but not yet saving it (tnx to Ken KJ9B)

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- on the Main window's "my QTHs" tab, updates the "Set myQTH ID" button's explanatory popup to include the myQTH ID to which the myQTH ID items of all QSOs in the Log Page Display will be set

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- adds HF and VHF checkboxes to the IOTA panel on the Configuration window's Awards tab that govern the IOTA progress report (tnx to Steve K4WA)

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- removes the IOTAMEM checkbox from the IOTA panel on the Configuration window's Awards tab, as IOTA no longer support IOTAMEM (tnx to Valeria IK1ADH)

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- provides realtime award tracking for the IOTA HF and VHF award categories (tnx to Steve K4WA)

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- after re-initializing the IOTA realtime progress table, directs the user to initiate a recompute operation in DXKeeper followed by a recompute operation in SpotCollector (tnx to Dave W6DE)

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- provides a "Status Key" on the right side of the Realtime Award Tracking window's IOTA tab that explains the meaning of abbreviations used in the "IOTA Award Progress" panel's Status column (tnx to Carlo? IK2RP)

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- updates the Secondary Administrative Subdivision database for European and Asiatic Russia with new/corrected RDA Districts

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- properly identifies logged QSOs with inconsistent gridsquare, lat, lon, and distance items (tnx to Andy K0AF)

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- accesses the QRZ XML callbook using HTTPS (tnx to Jeff N1DKO)

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- when filtering the Log Page Display, inhibits validity checking on a QSO that will only be transiently displayed so that a panel is not erroneously made visible on the Main window's "Log QSOs" tab (tnx to Phil F5PHW)

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- provides a variant of the external Check command that does not populate the Capture window; this enables SpotCollector 9.9.2 to direct DXKeeper to display callsign progress when a K1JT-mode Spot Database Entry is double-clicked

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- updates the DARC DOK award list (tnx to Carlo IK2RPE)

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- adds SO-124 to DefaultSatellites.txt

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- updates the AwardInfo.htm, Configuration.htm, index.htm, MultipleQTHs.htm, Progress.htm, QSL.htm, Scripts.htm and SortLog.htm documentation files

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Notes:

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1. Direct the Launcher to install or upgrade DXKeeper

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2. Update your firewall and anti-malware applications to consider this new version of DXKeeper to be "safe"

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?? a. JOTTI virus scan: 0 of 13 scanners detected malware in this version's executable

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?? b. VirusTotal: 0 of 71 scanners detected malware in this version's executable

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3. If this upgrade doesn't work correctly, see the "After an Upgrade" section of

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?? http://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/ApplicationStoppedWorking

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4. After upgrading, to revert to the previous version of DXKeeper, see

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DXKeeper 18.1.4 is available via the DXLab Launcher and via

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http://www.dxlabsuite.com/download.htm

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