The award administration is contained in one window with the following 5 pages:
Shows all QSOs which qualify for the award and which are not yet selected. Use this page to check if there are new QSOs which qualify for the award.
Shows all currently selected QSOs. You can change the award status of the QSOs (Selected, Submitted, Credited, Rejected).
Shows all QSOs for which a QSL card is needed to increase the award status
Shows the statistic of the award. Here you can check the totals to see if you qualify for the award. This the same as a normal statistic view
Shows a specialized report generator window which allows you to print the award application.
Special rules apply as to how the QSL cards must be sorted for the DXCC award. If you have QSL cards with more than one QSO which qualify for DXCC then make sure you read this section.
To open the award administration function select:
and select the award:
Select QSOs for Award
The page Select QSOs for Award is used to select the QSOs which should be included in the award. SWISSLOG automatically selects the QSOs which qualify and proposes a QSO to be included. If you don't want to include the proposed QSO you can select another QSO. The selection of QSOs included in the award can be changed until the QSO has been submitted in the Organize QSOs for Award page.
The page looks like this:
Explanation of the contents
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Award Information: |
The award information shows the award entity
with its key and the description if available (an information table is
defined for the statistic). In the example the key is the DXCC and
the
description is the DXCC name. |
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Status: |
Shows the status of the QSO with respect to the Award
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Qualifying for: |
Informs you for which band and modes the QSO
qualifies. |
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QSL: |
Shows you how the QSO was confirmed (by card
or LoTW) |
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QSO Information; |
Shows the most important QSO information. |
Operations
| Accept proposed QSOs: | You can select all QSO which have been
proposed (which have the New Status) by selecting the function:
You can also select the QSOs one by one. Check the checkbox Select by clicking either the
New or the Select checkbox of the corresponding QSO. |
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Reject a QSO: |
To reject a QSO check the checkbox Reject. |
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Select a different QSO than proposed: |
To select another QSO than was proposed press on
the + button and select the QSO you want by checking the Select
checkbox. In this example we select another 17m QSO:
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Add selection to the Award: |
Once you have finalized your selection
you have
to add the selected QSOs to the Award by selecting the function:
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Organize QSOs for Awards
The page Organize QSOs for Award is used to maintain the status of the selected QSOs and to make corrections to the selection.
The page looks like this:
Explanation of the contents
| Select: |
This is the selection checkbox. The
operations are performed on the selected QSOS, the ones which have the
checkmark set in this box. |
| Award Information: |
The award information shows the
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| Qualifying for: | Informs you for which band and
modes the QSO
qualifies. |
| QSL: | Shows you how the QSO was confirmed (by
card
or LoTW) |
| QSO Information: | Shows the most important QSO information, and the submitted and credited date. |
Operations
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Change the status of selected QSOs: |
Select the QSOs for which you want to change the status by checking the Select
checkbox then change the status by selecting one of the
status-change functions:
You can use the Runtime Filtering to select the QSOs and then use the function to select/deselect all QSOs. Note: You should first print the application form and then change the status to Submitted. You need the status Selected in the Report page to select the QSOs which should be included on the application form. If you change the status to Submitted before you print the application you lose the selection possibility. I have provided recovery possibilities in case you make a mistake:
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Select another QSO as proposed: |
To select another QSO as currently selected press on
the + button and select the QSO you want by checking the Select
checkbox. In this example we select another 20m QSO:
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Select QSOs to be printed on a Report: |
You can use the Runtime
Filtering to select the QSOs which should be
included in the report. In the Report page two data sources are available:
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QSL Needed
This page displays all QSOs which would qualify for the award if a QSL was received. It allows you to reclaim QSL cards which are badly needed. You can use the filter capabilities of the grid to narrow down to the QSOs for which you want to start a 'Reclaim Action': See Runtime Filtering for details of how to use the filter capability.
The page looks as follows:
Explanation of the contents
See the other views
Operations
| Select QSOs for printing: |
You can use the Runtime
Filtering to select the QSOs (Select the 
filter function) or select the QSOs manually:
Press Ctrl to select multiple individual QSOs Press Shift to select blocks of QSOs |
| Print selected QSOs: |
Use 
to print all currently filtered QSOs.
Use This will open the Report print Dialog |
to
print the QSOs you have manually selected (the ones which are highlighted
and have a point in the indicator cell).Reports
Reports
This is a specialized Print/View Reports window. Its view is restricted to the QSOs selected for the award. It opens with the report pre-selected which is defined under Std.Report in the award definition. You can use every available report. But remember the selection criteria of the report are only applied to the QSOs of the award. Because the reports are dynamically modified to restrict the view some of the report may not work correctly.
For each award a View (table) is created which selects the QSOs of the Award. The name of the View is the name of the award from which all blanks and special characters have been removed and have been prefixed with AWD_. For example for the Test-Award DXCC Full the name of the view is AWD_DXCCFull.
In addition a special View called ACTIVEAWARD is created which selects the QSO of the currently active award. This makes it possible to create generic reports, reports which can be used for all awards. I have created such a report called Generic Award QSO List.rpt. It is automatically selected if there is no standard report defined for the award.
Two data sources are available:
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All QSOs of the Award: select this data source to include all QSOs of the award
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QSOs filtered for the Award: select this data source to include only the QSOs you have filtered in the page Organize QSOs for Award
The page looks like this:
Explanation of the contents
| Select the Data Source: |
Here you can select the QSOs that will be
printed on the report. You can select between:
The active data source is displayed at the top under Active Data Source |
| Select the Report: |
Here you select the report you want to print. It is an Explorer-like list directory containing the reports for the selected award. You can navigate in the directory structure to select other reports. Use the drive box to change the root directory. Note: the
report you select is dynamically modified so that only the award QSOs
are included. Therefore not all reports may work correctly. |
| Selection for Award submission: |
Here you can filter the QSOs included on the
report. As long as nothing is selected all QSOs are included.
The selection criteria for the different fields are 'ANDed', the criteria for a field are 'ORed'. For example if you select:
the selection statement is: if (Status = (Selected or Submitted)) and Submit-Date = 26.04.2005 and (Band =(160m or 80m)) |
| Preview Page: | This is the print preview area |
| Records Page: | Here you can see the QSOs which are selected for printing. Press the View Report button to refresh the QSOs. |
Operations
| Select the Data Source: |
Select the source of the QSOs you want to print |
| Select the Report: |
Select the report you want to print |
| View Report: |
Select the 
function to preview the report |
| Print Report: |
Select the 
function or press the
button on the Preview Page to print the report |
| Edit Report: |
Select the 
function to edit the report |
| Create Report: |
Select the
function to create a new report (see Creating
Reports) |
Sorting the QSL Cards for the DXCC Award
QSL cards for DXCC award have to be sorted according to the ARRL rules. For QSL cards with only one QSO this is straight forward. But QSL cards with multiple QSOs which qualify for the award must be placed at the very end. SWISSLOG sorts such QSL Cards correctly if the QSL-Card-Nr. is assigned correctly!
For QSL cards with multiple QSOs you should assign a unique Card-Nr. That means that each QSO on a card should have the same Card-Nr so that SWISSLOG can find out that there are multiply QSOs on a Card.
The QSL-Card-Nr. is entered in the QSO-Edit window in the page QSL-Info.