If you have any suggestions for the eQSL.cc web site, please post them here.

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Of course, that's just my opinion... I could be wrong!

73,
Dave Morris, N5UP

Hi Dave,

I have been a member of eQSL for a while, but just uploaded my log for the first time last night. I noticed that my country count was much smaller than shown in my home log program. It looks like this is related to "special call signs", many of which are assigned to DXpeditions. I wonder if there is a way to include these call signs in the data base, so that they are credited to the correct country...This may require way too much research...but it made a huge difference in my country count.

Anyway, I think the site is great and I am looking forward to using it more in the future.

Thanks,
Rich

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K5FZ Richard Taylor

Only confirmed contacts with Authenticity Guaranteed eQSL.CC members are counted in your country total. Thus, your local log will almost surely show a higher total than eQSL does.

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73, Rich - W3ZJ
Edited by W3ZJ Rich Drake on Dec 22, 2005 at 10:39 AM

I am talking about just counting the countries listed in my uploaded log/outgoing box right after uploading...Not the confirmed country count...these are countries I have worked, not confirmed. It looks to be 40 or 50 countries different...maybe there is something I missed about the upload process, but I am assuming that if I logged it and uploaded the log, it should be in the out box. Is this a correct assumption?

Thanks,
Rich

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K5FZ Richard Taylor

OK, I'm kinda slow, but maybe I figured out the problem......If a QSO is marked in my log as "QSL sent" and "QSL received", does it show up in the out box, once the file is uploaded? It doesn't look like it does. I thought that all QSO's showed up there, but maybe not.

Kingman Reef was one in question. The out box does not list Kingman, but when I do a search on K5K all of the contacts are there...

I'm still not sure, but maybe someone can enlighten me...it's kinda dark in here...

Thanks,
Rich

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K5FZ Richard Taylor

eQSL does not pay any attention to the QSL_Sent ot QSL_rcvd fields so that's not the problem.

However, if a station is not a member of eQSL with a profile on the system then it does not know what country the station is in and can't show it in your Outbox. Currently no attempt is made to guess the country from the prefix.

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73, Rich - W3ZJ

OK, Thanks...still just trying to figure stuff out. It looks like the "special call"/"special prefix" may be the reason these countries don't show up.

Again, thanks for your help.

Rich

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K5FZ Richard Taylor

Special callsigns and callsigns with slashes are not a problem as long as the stations registered those calls and you logged them exactly as they were given on the air. If those calls are not registered or your log had some variation of the call then yes indeed that is the problem.

You can always check to see if a call is registered by using the callsign text box at the top of the left had column of most eQSL pages.

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73, Rich - W3ZJ

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Is there a way to send out a reminder to everyone that hasn't picked up their card? I've done it individually and it takes forever. I noticed that after you upload your log, and the other user is initially notified, it won't let you notify them again. Thanks!

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KF8PD Ed Thornsburg

Posted: Jan 3, 2006 03:35 AM Msg. 2 of 2
Ed,
happy new year to you & the users & board members who read here as well!,
guess the reminder everybody got by accessing eQSL the last days ('06 resolutions) made a good starting point.
Repeating that from time to time could help a bit. But it won't help in case of the numerous registered users, who simply don't log in anymore.
May be, a service message, generated by the system automatically to all who didn't log in for, say 6..8 weeks changed things. ... -snip-


sorry for pasting & copying from another topic, but guess it fits better to the headline now.

will add my suggestion from another discussion, to search a way for marking calls chosen from the country-list by using data from the profiles, whether they're still valid (i.e. for a sked-request) or belong to past activities.

73, Tom

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DL4NSE Tom Klaschka

The short answerer is NO. I think your are referring to clicking the notify button next to non-member stations shown in your Outbox. Since they are not members and have no profile in the system a lookup is required on QRZ.COM or WM7D.COM to attempt to find an email address. Can you imagine the system overhead that would be caused by this if we did it for every non-member card in the system? It's just completely impractical to even think of this.


In order to prevent stations from being bombarded with email from eQSL (Imagine a DX station with thousands of cards waiting) no more than one notification can be sent to any individual within a 30 day time period.

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73, Rich - W3ZJ

Rich,
what I (& probably Ed) thought of/ as I understood the question, concerns the registered users, so no access to any external database is required.
At least I don't talk about notifications on single qsos, but a general check of the existing database of registered users vs. last login-date, which could lead to an automatically generated reminder to log in & check the inbox/ news after a certain time.
Individual reminders of that kind could be sent by each user via the mail-function by clicking the call, if one feels the need to do so. Might be, a prepared message text for that case helped.
Fully agree, that the problem to get a qsl from stations not using the eQSL, should be left to the single operators, eQSL can't provide that.
On that occasion thank you for your great service to the community,
I'm very happy with it! (and will donate again in the very next days )
73, Tom

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DL4NSE Tom Klaschka

PS: 2nd question on the validity date of entries

experienced numerous replies, that the call is no longer active from, i.e. HB0, ZC4, OY, ...

when I search the country list & select a certain country, I see a list of eQSL-users.
Especially for islands, rare ones etc. there're a lot of even AG'ed entries belonging to an only temporary activation/ validity date. Is it possible, to mark permanent listings by * or similarily, figured out by checking the database, if the current date is prior to the "end-of-validity"date according to the user's profile info?

thanks,

Tom

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DL4NSE Tom Klaschka

Outstanding suggestion! And one that took me all of 3 minutes to implement. Go take a look at the Country List now and see if that does what you're wanting.

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Of course, that's just my opinion... I could be wrong!

73,
Dave Morris, N5UP

Great job, Dave!,
many thanks!
Tom

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DL4NSE Tom Klaschka

Thanks Rich, and Tom for posting it here. I'm new to the "community"

I see what you mean Rich, about trying to notify everyone. Like Tom mentioned, is there a way to automatically remind users that they have cards waiting? Maybe give them an "incentive" or "upgrade if they log on every so often. More people using the system means good advertisement for EQSL.

I know you can check for yourself on the home page, even non-users can check. I know several members myself that have cards waiting, but have never uploaded their logs. Both parties could benefit this way. I guess some may register just to receive cards with no intention of uploading their logs.

Oh, nice to meet you at Dayton a couple of years ago. My wife and I stopped by to chat with you and Dave for a bit. Keep up the good work!

Ed

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KF8PD Ed Thornsburg

hello,

just to avoid this idea getting lost:

"..check of the existing database of registered users vs. last login-date, which could lead to an automatically generated reminder to log in & check the inbox/ news after a certain time.."


I've met a lot of eQSL-users on the bands the last days and frequently check the list of qsls waiting for them, that's why I still like the idea described above.
What do you think?

73, Tom

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DL4NSE Tom Klaschka

Hey Dave, could this be done with the option of someone opting out of it if they wish? Then you wouldn't be bombarding them with stuff they didn't want.

Oh I don't know, maybe a reminder every couple of months or so.


Ed

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KF8PD Ed Thornsburg

Hello all,

it's another topic, but I'm not sure where to post it correctly:
By now it happened twice to me that a sked-request has been answered by sending an eQSL with no qso before and that's not my understanding of working seriously on an award.
Is there an automatical routine running and checking the reject boxes for suspicious contents or have you ever been thinking of that?
eBay has a rating system, my email-provider offers spam-filtering and blacklists. I don't think that we really need things like that, but in cases of proven, frequent faking of log-entries & qsls may be at least the board should find a way to deal with such behaviour?

Tom

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DL4NSE Tom Klaschka

That's is in the works. It hasn't been enough of a problem yet, but the eBay "positive feedback" system is becoming a sufficiently standard feature on many eCommerce sites that we are starting to build some mechanisms to implement something like it this year.

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Of course, that's just my opinion... I could be wrong!

73,
Dave Morris, N5UP

Why don't you add a Total Users on the main page of the website?

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