cqrlog/help/h22.html
OH1KH f29f9290f3 Locator in standard format:
This was intended to be a fix for issue #187 but it grow up during programming.

 -sets now locator writing by standard format "AB12cd" as described in
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System#Description_of_the_system
  Also adif.org uses this link as reference in their descriptions.
  Writing format is forced at typing phase (I hope I found all loc inputs).
  Also ADIF input/output forces formatting and finally save qso to database will make sure the format is right.

 -Playing with locators made an idea of showing distances in QSO list.
  How ever Lazarus DBGrid does not allow showing calculated columns.
  Either an additional unit must be used to do this or database needs a new column "distance".
  That is why a selected QSO's distance is shown at bottom status area with "comment", "Award" and QSL times
  with total and longest qso distances of log or filter selection.
  But only if checked to be visible from preferences/visible columns (although it is not actually a column).

 -preferences/program/Show distance in miles affects also all places where distance is now shown.
 -Distance can also be selected to exist in ADIF, HTML and QSL label exports.
 -QSL label export has some new selections with distance.
  They are: Propagation, Satellite, Contest name and contest exchanges (4)
 -HTML export output is fixed to support CSS and HTML5.
  HTML export has now working column width (by average char count, not in pixels) or Auto column width selection.
 -HTML export column names can be changed by user.
 -Help files are updated

Squashed commit of the following:

commit de1cccf58e7698b275fa49be7765dde6665199f4
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Wed Oct 2 20:09:08 2019 +0300

    Found small big in fraExportPref

commit f7697e910d6cf0e595d22d7c6fefb5999b04255b
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Tue Oct 1 09:55:34 2019 +0300

    help update

commit a4958fda68db0117666ac47841aa92a28a473b36
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Mon Sep 30 16:56:29 2019 +0300

    NewQso:fix rxfreq input limit. QSLlabes: new selections to print

commit 97479517135aa2c973cd02045bdc3af81f4c7046
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Sun Sep 29 14:52:58 2019 +0300

    Fixed: adif: export line cut. Html: profile export

commit 596802fdb2959495b1cb6f0b53363c249cb48fc4
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Sun Sep 29 10:37:53 2019 +0300

    More bugs found

commit cd3b9b2d7dbbdb03a80e804b9829ebe8e8a47092
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Sat Sep 28 18:36:17 2019 +0300

    help file updates

commit f35c5d3f61ad4f29d8012e899a94ed23586f373a
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Sat Sep 28 12:27:49 2019 +0300

    Some code fixes. Now needs testing with ADIF impoirt/export and HTML export

commit 099c6a452d60b3f01271be16c84fab08a70466c5
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Fri Sep 27 22:25:17 2019 +0300

    Now HTML export idea works. Width counting not.Also adif export needs testing

commit 4b3ff4d6f23ea18d44cfb19090b6b15c070ce4b8
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Fri Sep 27 21:26:56 2019 +0300

    Little bit closer to working HTML export. But not ready!

commit 0f9e559548be84b3b3ed1069e1ed85d0dfa846b4
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Fri Sep 27 19:14:44 2019 +0300

    Untested backup push

commit 0a1107548c3b58beaf08d727f0426395ddf3dc52
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Fri Sep 27 13:32:30 2019 +0300

    small steps, but still errors and lot of fix

commit cb1e3934d0c208dcaac3fd45fa18194234bcc48f
Merge: 42d7e5c c820289
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Thu Sep 26 21:10:54 2019 +0300

    Merge branch 'master' into loc_std

commit 42d7e5caf3cb7f2a914a776b631a4b54beb69293
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Thu Sep 26 21:07:34 2019 +0300

     Big changes to html export. Not full ready yet

commit 32e70f0f6401af78bcfddc0c48befc8158d867cf
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Wed Sep 25 20:53:39 2019 +0300

    rewiting of HTML export. Not ready yet

commit f5faa689f3ba7adb3003c67941d2db2d6520b9ef
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Tue Sep 24 11:04:37 2019 +0300

    Minor fixes. Might help for 'xxxx-xx-xx is not valid date' error that sometimes occurs again (once fixed in wsjt remote)

commit 8512a06efacfe73419dbb507b95042692325a20e
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Mon Sep 23 19:33:42 2019 +0300

    Several small fixes

commit 2a48fdfffae905f4afe32eb8e99a89e16d7c1491
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Mon Sep 23 11:42:23 2019 +0300

    Contest has loc writing by std. Lbl print no dist unit.Html exp mi/km but has error

commit af75d9a4d86130aa460684bd9859fa8505d5b7d8
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Thu Sep 19 19:53:40 2019 +0300

    Adding distance in km/mi by preferences/program setting

commit 9375f57beb1952109db35b24b47d1dc32e4163fb
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Thu Sep 19 13:21:41 2019 +0300

    Updates to help files

commit c2954dcbaf600507844f4ce6c25951b50d7edf17
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Thu Sep 19 13:11:50 2019 +0300

    Updates to help files

commit ce7bbf2f184c93d063c2141d20cf5060813798d4
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Thu Sep 19 11:21:10 2019 +0300

    fixed preferences view

commit 6335fdaedc051bcffde70e1c9c0cf4052abb0748
Merge: c9dc424 3bbe8db
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Thu Sep 19 10:56:13 2019 +0300

    Merge branch 'master' into loc_std

commit c9dc42436df9c7a96d914491af29b724df99009c
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Wed Sep 18 09:53:16 2019 +0300

    Preferences visible columns: add (in pnl) for Distance as it is not in column

commit 2670c54d8ca8ccf614d65d3b1f6dcd636d83646f
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Wed Sep 18 09:48:31 2019 +0300

    Added distance choice to qsl label printing

commit 8406464cfa1dd7240afca7f12fe959d3fd7141da
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Tue Sep 17 21:14:43 2019 +0300

    Removed not working distance column code. Focus to first release with only status panel distance

commit 7154459c8103fea746f809247e50446d81c1501c
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Mon Sep 16 16:55:43 2019 +0300

    commented out not woking parts of code

commit 594e0b9d3862d4cb635ab101c11b0ba558b97b62
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Fri Sep 13 13:20:48 2019 +0300

    Again a try to write calculated content to dispaly-field(causes error)

commit 63de897ce8289478291116b5ee2168cad0a7bf5f
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Thu Sep 12 12:00:47 2019 +0300

    some fixes to distance visibility

commit 70a95c4fdd58dd78788ab7ad33bdd1037581d581
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Wed Sep 11 17:45:35 2019 +0300

    Problem with inherited fraEx fixed (?)

commit d014e960143102332677e8a8b6d4065436d69aab
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Wed Sep 11 13:12:27 2019 +0300

    Fixed anchoring of export selections frame

commit ac6914ee14648e14325cc11797e05592b1f5f189
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Mon Sep 9 18:45:12 2019 +0300

     Not yet (?)a way to get 'distance' to dbGrid as it is not database field'

commit a0376a9a86ca9d54e21ffcd581fb5010d68daaed
Merge: 9609c81 a5d0300
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Sun Sep 8 18:26:07 2019 +0300

    Merge branch 'master' into loc_std

commit 9609c8125e0dedba5945722159137363ea95c7bb
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Sun Sep 8 17:01:47 2019 +0300

    Sum is now called from better place, but still has problems with activate/deactivate filter

commit 04565c5e0847ccf3450da6de2cbb9553b778e7ae
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Sat Sep 7 17:29:18 2019 +0300

    counts dist,maxdist,sumdist at Main and Html export. Exports DISTANCE tag with adif export

commit d9bd63ccf676f812e6af6b3e21ef8e69b0099b50
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Thu Sep 5 12:11:16 2019 +0300

    fixed log in Group edit. Where else loc is still unfixed?

commit 5e229a4345c0c540588ddc1278ab7f049f97a632
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Wed Sep 4 13:50:14 2019 +0300

    new function StdFormatLocator. Related code changes.

commit f13b240456cbadb2ecc3467a48acb811962f8d05
Author: OH1KH <oh1kh@sral.fi>
Date:   Tue Sep 3 20:22:57 2019 +0300

    Set grid locator writing format to standard (up/lo case) AA00bb
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>CQRLOG - QSL Records</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="2" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><img src="img/exc.png"></td>
<td bgcolor=ffffcc valign="top" align="justify"><strong>
<font color="red">WARNING!</font></strong>
Backup your data often! BACKUP your log directory at the end of EVERY session!
All that you need to backup and store in a safe place is the log database directory
located in the ~/.config/cqrlog/database folder, or you can enable the autobackup function
in Preferences. This autobackup function creates an ADIF file with a backup of your log.
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="33%" align="center">[<a href="index_right.html">Menu</a>]</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
<div style="text-align: left;"><strong>CQRLOG for LINUX by OK7AN &amp; OK1RR</strong></div>
<p align=center><img src=img/line.png></p>
<a name="ah21"><h2><strong>QSL records</strong></h2></a>
All QSL operations must be done from the QSO list (Ctrl-O from the logging screen).
The QSO list has a dedicated QSL menu item in the upper menu bar.
<ul>
<li><strong>Send QSL</strong> - the sent QSL menu has following options:<br><br>
<img src="img/h71.png" border="0"><br><br>
<ul>
<li>Buro (B) (a 'B' appears in the log, column 'QSL sent')</li>
<li>Direct (D)</li>
<li>eQSL(E)</li>
<li>Manager (M)</li>
<li>Do not send (N)</li>
<li>Manager direct (MD)</li>
<li>Manager buro (MB)</li>
<li>Confirmad by email (CE)</li>
</ul>
</ul>
If you want to send a QSL card, it is better to mark the QSO record with a similar mark
which begins with <strong>'S'</strong> (Send). This can be done with the Ctrl-W shortcut.
The QSO record will be marked with the default option <strong>'SB'</strong>
(Send via the Buro). For other options, go to the menu QSL->QSL send->Will send-> and
choose an appropriate option. Once a QSL is complete (ready to go), press Ctrl-S.
The 'S' letter disappears making it clearly visible that the QSL is complete and sent.
<ul>
<li><strong>Receive QSL</strong> - navigate to the record for the QSL card received.
Press Ctrl-R and in the 'QSL_R' (QSL Received) field an 'X' will appear.
</li>
</ul>
<strong>QSL manager search</strong><br><br>
<img src="img/h53.png" border="0"><br><br>
When you choose this option A QSL manager window appears, in the lower left corner is
a box with a <em>Find</em> button.<br><br>
For LoTW operations see <a href=h7.html><strong>here</strong></a>.
<p align=center><img src=img/line.png></p>
<a name="bh4"><h2><strong>QSL labels printing</strong></h2></a>
<div align="justify">QSL label printing is accomplished with the gLabels software
which is very powerful and allows you to print QSL labels of any size,
any number, also a whole QSL card can be designed and printed in professional quality
(printer depending). The gLabels software can be downloaded from
http://glabels.sourceforge.net/. It contains numerous predefined templates of label sheets
from many manufacturers. Most Linux distributions have gLabels in their repositories.
</div>
<br>
<div align="justify">The main task of CQRLOG is data preparation in a format (CSV) which
can be processed by gLabels. Several QSOs on a single label are possible and
gLabels provides all that we need.
</div>
<br>
<strong>QSL label template</strong><br>
<IMG src="img/h72.png"><br><br>
<div align="justify">A template with data to be printed, its order, typeface, position etc.
is needed to print your QSL labels. gLabels uses its own format for label design.
The result is a binary file. The syntax can be derived from the label designer picture,
you own label design can be derived from the example qsl.glabels included in the CQRLOG
installation.
</div>
<br>
<strong>Printing of individual QSL labels (default)</strong><br><br>
<IMG src="img/h71.png"><br><br>
<div align="justify">The QSO records should be properly marked. Records previously marked
SB (Send Bureau), SM (Send Manager), SMB (Send Manager - Bureau), SD (Send Direct) or SMD
(Send Manager- Direct) in any combination are exported.
</div>
<br>
<IMG src="img/h70.png"><IMG src="img/h70b.png"><br><br>
<strong>Batch QSL label printing</strong>
<div align="justify">This method can be used if no QSO records are marked.
A filter can be set up, labels are printed for the filtered output and all such records
are marked as 'QSL sent'. To make this option effective, check the box 'Export all QSOs'
and 'Mark QSLs sent after export'. If you forget to check the 'Export all QSOs' box,
no output will be generated unless there are previously marked QSO records (see above).
If the 'Mark QSLs sent after export' remains unchecked, no QSO records will be marked as
'QSL sent'.
</div>
<br>
<div align="justify">For both methods, the filtering potential can be utilized.
For example, you can filter out all QSOs with DJ3 stations and print QSL labels for them.
You will get such output:
</div>
<br>
<IMG src="img/h73.png"><br>
<div align="justify">There is no need to print QSL labels online on your printer. A very
good and proven trick is to print the labels to a PDF file, check that for correctness and
proper alignment against a real label sheet and then print it.
</div>
<br>
<p align=center><img src=img/line.png></p>
<a name="bh5"><h2><strong>Auto mark QSL</strong></h2></a>
<IMG src="img/h74.png"><br><br>
<div align="justify">This option allows you to set the QSL field for the first QSO with a
particular station on a band, mode, band/mode or for the first band, mode, band/mode
contact with a particular DXCC country regardless of the station.<br><br>
<IMG src="img/h75.png"><br><br>
It works in cooperation with the filters, however the test for the 'first QSO' is taken
from the whole log. You can limit your selection to 2008 but if you worked this station
in 1998 for first time, it will NOT be marked. This prevents you from sending multiple QSLs
for an already confirmed contact on that band, mode or band+mode.
</div>
<p align=center><img src=img/line.png></p>
<table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="33%" align="center">[<a href="index_right.html">Menu</a>]</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
</div></body>
</html>