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- TOTAL HAM PLUS
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- For those who have not seen the TOTAL HAM Series, this is a program designed
- to be used online while on the air. For those who have, enchancements follow.
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- TOTAL HAM PLUS is lite bar menu driven & very fast on hard drives.
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- TOTAL HAM PLUS gives you while online: logging(3 modes),Beam headings from your
- QTH, DXCC,WAS,WAZ,WAC,COUNTY HUNTERS,ITU ZONE & DX ZONE checklists,
- QSL managers info, QSL card handling, log maintenence & more.
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- In the logging mode (Regular,contest & net formats available) you have at your
- finger tips, your country, state, county, continent & itu & cq dx zone
- checklists. You also have special info screens available such as the
- international prefix allocation table, authorized & unauthorized frequencies
- for classes of licenses. A user kept QSL managers list is also available.
- Entering a call sign at the prompt will display any other contacts made with
- that callsign. If that callsign has any QSL manager listed in the QSL managers
- list, that manager will be displayed also. Adding a qsl manager or changing an
- existing manager while logging the contact will automatically update the QSL
- managers list. All logging modes automatically enter the time & date
- (converted to UTC from you computers system clock), band,mode, & will carry
- over the previous signal reports & frequency (changable if you wish after
- entry). A flag is available to flag this contact as wanted for QSL purposes
- (new country, rare, etc).
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- The contest mode is a shortened, fast entry version of regular logging. Along
- with auto entry of time & date, the contest name & a 59 signal report is auto
- entered (changable if you wish after entry). A Contact number is displayed &
- automatically incremented for use if the contest uses contact numbers.
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- The net mode is the same as regular logging except that it will keep track of
- the stations worked while in the net mode & will display, at the touch of a
- function key, all contacts made & info you have entered. Who's on the net with
- you????
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- The country,state,county,dx zone & itu zone checklists give you online info
- about whether you have confirmed or need a confirmation from a station. They
- display all bands & SSB or CW modes with X's for those confirmed.
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- The QSL manager list mentioned above can be kept up to date by entering info
- found in any source. You may also edit,delete or print the list.
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- The QSL card handling option allows you to enter a QSL card you have received
- by entering the call sign. your log is searched & displays all contacts with
- that callsign not already marked as received. This will flag your log entry
- with the fact that a card was recieved & allow you to also enter this card as
- a new country,state,county or zone into one of the checklists at this time.
- When you are ready to send QSL cards, you may print lists to send cards to.
- or print information labels for use on QSL Cards.
- The first list printed is all those you flagged as wanted & the second list
- is all those you need to send to. There is also an option to flag contacts as
- not wanting to qsl to prevent unneeded contacts from showing in these lists.
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- The log maintenance option allows editing & listing or printing of your log.
- It allows print outs by date, month, whole log or log since last printing.
- The log can be printed in two formats.
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- Those who have used the shareware version "THE TOTAL HAM" will find many
- enhancements, changes or additions in "THE TOTAL HAM PLUS".
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- As of TOTAL HAM PLUS Version 3.0 the following new & enhanced features are
- available to the user over the last shareware TOTAL HAM version 9.2.
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- SUMMARY:
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- Comes with a printed manual.
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- Much faster, easier to use menus (lite bar).
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- Much more info is now available from the input of all logging modes.
- ALL checklists including the new zones checklist, the callsign allocation
- table (for all the strange prefixes), authorized frequencies for class of
- license.
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- Net & contest modes now allow picking up a previously used file. Useful for
- on-going nets & contests.
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- Personalized print outs.
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- DETAILS OF SOME OF THE CHANGES & ENHANCEMENTS:
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- 1 - Menus are now lite bar selections. Light up the option & hit return.
- Zap your there. ( Comming back to this version after developing the
- plus versions shows me the value of them ). The menus also have a
- short help box describing the option.
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- 2 - Most print outs now are personalized with your callsign & the date of
- the printing.
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- 3 - Printed logs now have page numbers. Printing the whole log starts from 1 &
- printing since last printing will pick up the number it left off at last.
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- 4 - You can now search the beam heading file by country name if the prefix
- is not remembered.
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- 5 - added an abort to all printer functions. ESC will abort, & form feed.
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- 6 - Net logging now saves its additional file (you name it) so you can leave
- the area & come back with out losing it. It also auto enters the net name
- into the contest field, now refered to as the contest/net field.
- the next time you enter net logging you are asked if you want to start a
- new net or if not, all the files *.NET are displayed & you can re-activate
- any of them.
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- 7 - The above now makes it safe to exit the area with the F1 key instead of
- END. Accidental exit before lost the info. F1 is now active through out
- in place of END.
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- 8 - contest logging was changed to to match the net logging format.
- contest file carry the extent of *.CNT.
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- 9 - contest processing was changed to match above.
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- 10 - editing of existing beam heading entries was added.
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- 11 - input of the dates in log printing & log editing was fixed so that a
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- 12 - changed the state side K's to W's in the new beam heading files. This
- now matches the countries list which carries W as the primary prefix
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- 13 - You can now add to, delete from & printout the beam heading file.
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- 14 - In the contest logging mode, if mode is CW '599' is entered as signal
- strength.
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- 15 - Long path has been added to the beam heading file.
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- 16 - Manual entry to the log now carries over the previous freq, time & signal
- reports.
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- 17 - In all logging modes F4 now brings up a checklist menu. This allows any
- checklist to be available at all times.
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- 18 - The above allows county hunters to use any mode & have his checklist
- available. This was the only difference in county hunter net logging so
- that mode was deleted.
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- 19 - This also freed up another function key ( F6 ) to be used for information
- screens. International allocation of callsigns, Frequencies legal for
- class of license are available at this time.
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- 20 - Added a paged display of the qsl managers list when called from logging.
- Allows a partial call to be entered & get a list of matches. example:
- HC will give all HC's with managers.
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- 21 - Added the ability to resort the log by date & time. The log print out
- options print the log as it was entered. If users entered some manually,
- then entered live, then manually again, the log will print out in that
- order. The option in the log maintenance menu will resort the log in the
- proper order, date & time. Will take a little time to do but it should not
- be neccesary to use often.
- BE CAREFUL OF DISK SPACE AVAILABLE & I STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU REMOVE ALL
- TSR'S BEFORE RUNNING THIS OPTION.
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- 22 - Added ability to set your own left margin on printouts. allows you to
- set up for 3 hole punching of the printouts. Default is 4 spaces.
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- 23 - the frequency is now printed on the log printouts.
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- 24 - Zones are added to the main menu. You have either CQ dx zones (WAZ) or
- ITU zones. You will be asked which you want.
- NEW files zone.dat, zone.idx, zone1.dat & zone1.idx. add to your directory.
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- 25 - Now displays the sent & rec signal reports in the receive qsl card option.
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- 26 - The program no shows leading zero's in all time,date displays & in the
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- 27 - Added the ability to print information labels for use on QSL Cards.
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- 28 - On entering any logging mode, the bottom frequency of the band entered
- will be entered automatically to the first log entry. change this if you
- wish. the last entered frequency will be carried to the next entry. again
- change if you wish.
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- 29 - Moved the name field down in the logging entry screen. Makes more sense
- since you hardly every now his name as the first thing in the contact.
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- 30 - The log now has two formats. 1. the standard detailed format as before.
- (11 entries per page) 2. A condensed print format that matches the ARRL
- logbook (55 entries per page). The print out page numbers are separate
- for each style.
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- 31 - The [ESC] to abort changes now works as it should.
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- 32 - Entering a recieved QSL card now resets the wanted flag.
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- 33 - Added a reminder to back up all data files as the you leave the program.
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- 34 - Will again run on a 360K floppy system although not recommended.
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- PLUS many cosmetic & small operational changes to improve the operation.
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- >>>> Some of the VERSION 4 ENHANCEMENTS <<<<<
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- 1 - A radio interface has been added. In logging the frequency is taken from
- the rig & entered in the log when you enter the QSO. ALSO if you change
- bands with F5 the radio will follow the band change & change bands also.
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- 2 - Added a simple terminal program for use with a TNC while in logging.
- Shift-F1 brings it up & ESC will bring you back to logging.
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- (Both of the above are activated or deactivated from the options menu.)
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- 3 - The TNC option menu shows PAKRATT 232, KAM & GENERIC.
- The generic option is a plain terminal mode (no frills) nothing entered.
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- 4 - Entering any of the logging options now uses a lite bar selection of the
- band & mode. You no longer have to enter those manually.
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- 5 - If a previous contact is found in any of the logging options, the name,
- city, state, & country are picked up from the last previous contact
- displayed and entered for you if you choose to enter the contact into the
- log.
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- 6 - grid square & propagation fields have been add to the log. The callsign
- field is now 11 characters, allowing for example: KA4XYZ/VP2A. Previously
- the field was 10 characters.
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- 7 - The base frequency entered upon first entering any logging option now
- reflects the bottom of the band based on the mode. Example CW starts at
- 28.000 & SSB starts at 28.300.
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- 8 - Info screens available in logging now contains the ARRL section list.
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- 9 - Under the contest & net logging, when a filename is given and that
- filename already exists the program now asks for another name instead of
- overwriting the file.
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- 10 - In contest logging the contact number is now shown with out the decimal
- places being displayed.
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- 11 - All log entry screens now show the time and date of the contact in the
- heading. The Sent QSL field is now shown in the entry form. This was
- requested to allow for a quick "QSL now" option. Enter the Y now and
- print screen for the info to fill out a card now without using the send
- QSL Card area.
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- 12 - A previous contact now is found only for exact matches. Previously if
- KA4XYZ was in the log, entering KA4XY would show KA4XYZ. It was possible
- to show and enter a wrong QSL manager. This now will not happen.
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- 13 - The QSL manager field is now forced to upper case after the screen is
- completed.
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- 14 - Entering the checklist options from logging will default to the mode you
- are now working. Upon returning from the checklist menu the mode will be
- restored to what it was when you entered the menu.
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- 15 - All the checklists have been revamped to offer confirmed & worked. RTTY,
- PACKET & AMTOR have been added to the lists for tracking of those modes.
- The mixed mode options in the checklist menus will only be for mixed
- SSB/CW contacts. Other modes are not included in the mix.
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- 16 - The above required the displays and printouts to be totally revamped.
- Only on mode at a time is displayed. This allowed a single line for each
- entry rather than the previous two lines. Really makes more sense now.
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- 17 - With addition of RTTY,PACKET, & AMTOR fields all the checklist File sizes
- have grown approx. 50% with these additions.
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- 18 - The checklists now allow for a W for WORKED as well as an X for CONFIRMED.
- Worked was added as a menu option.
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- 19 - All references to DX zones through out the program have been changed to
- the proper name of CQ zones.
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- 20 - Zone screens and printouts now state the type of zone. IE: ITU or CQ.
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- 21 - The QSL manager input field in logging now uses the Qslman.dat file.
- This allows the whole 50 character field to be used and allows enough
- space for an address or other info you previously could only enter in
- the QSL MANAGER menu. This allows for the deletion of the field in the
- LOG.DAT file (Never really used anyway).
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- 22 - Contest counter saved one too many - fixed this
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- 23 - Checks diskspace after adding to files - shows warning at 4K
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- 24 - All options now in separate menu under the main menu
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- 25 - New option of using a different filename for the log. Default is still
- LOG.DAT. optional log only active in present session and will revert to
- LOG.DAT next time the program is brought up.
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- 26 - Added the ability under log maintanence to mass edit from an inputted
- date forward. This will allow you to enter a start date and edit from
- there on until you say [Q]uit.
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- 27 - Changed add to log manually to add directly to the log.dat file instead
- of using a temporary file.
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- 28 - Adding to the log manually now updates the qsl manager file like logging
- does.
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- 29 - Band & mode menus show the mixed option only when it can be safely used.
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- 30 - Added display of his signal to all displays in sending QSL options.
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- 31 - Zones now show in proper numeric order.
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- 32 - Set printer codes now save what was there before if a return is hit at
- the input prompt instead of wiping it out.
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- 33 - The log.dat file has one(1) space added to callsign two(2) frequency,
- addition of a field for gridsquare & one for propagation and the deletion
- of the QSLMAN field (covered above).
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- 34 - We have decided to play it safe with the data files. Now the program will
- close and reopen the files if changes or additions were made. This will
- ensure that if power is lost or some other nasty happens there may be only
- a minumim of data lost (what was on the screen). This MAY help if DOS 4.0
- bites you. We do not recommend DOS 4.0 because of its bug in file handling.
- DOS 4.01 is supposed to have corrected this problem.
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- TOTAL HAM PLUS ORDER FORM
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