Multipliers by Band Dialog

Your Mults by Band Dialog window will be similar to these.

This dialog gives a band by band breakdown of worked and wanted countries/zones/sections (contest dependent) per continent when Country is selected. Each continent has it's own Tab, the last Tab gives a total for all bands. In the title bar the number of worked and the total of possible countries/zones/sections is shown. The Multipliers by Band dialog can be found under the Multipliers item under Windows. A scroll bar at the bottom is added for convenience.

The blocks shown can be bands or modes depending on the contest. The number of shown blocks depends on the selected contest and selected mode (CW, SSB, Mixed).

In most contests all multipliers are shown (like countries, sections etc.). There are a few contest with many possible multipliers to much to fit in the multiplier window. In that case (like IOTA contest) ony the multipliers worked are shown (and when starting the contest the Sect or Other tab shows an empty dialog and every new multiplier will add a line in the dialog.

If unknown sections are logged they will be shown under the callarea "UNK".

• The number of blocks shown per band depend on the 'Mode category' which can be found on the tab 'Contest' under 'File | Open Log in Database' dialog'.
  • CW, SSB, RTTY - will give one block per band
  • MIXED - will give two blocks per band
    • white = CW, gray = SSB
• The bands shown depend on:
  • The selected contest, each contest has it's own default which mostly will be the 6 HF bands.
  • The setting of the band filter box in the Multiplier by Band dialog.
• A combination of the Band filter box and the Mode filter box gives many possibilities.
  • Mode filter Auto means that it uses the 'Mode category' which can be found on the tab 'Contest' under 'File | Open Log in Database' dialog'.
• Examples:
  • Bandfilter: Auto   Mode filter: Auto
    • default per contest, mostly the 6 major HF bands (160 80 40 20 15 10)
      • Used in all major contests like CQWW, ARRL DX etc
      • Single mode contests (CW or SSB)
    • 2 blocks - possible CW and SSB (mixed mode contests)
    • • Used in contests like ARRL 10 meter etc.
      • White = CW, Gray = SSB
      • Mixed is selected
• • Bandfilter: HF+WARC   Mode filter: SSB
    • 9 blocks - all 9 HF bands (160 80 40 30 20 17 15 12 10)
  • • used in contests like DX etc.
  • Bandfilter: HF+WARC   Mode filter: Mixed
    • 18 blocks - 2 blocks per band for all 9 HF bands (160 80 40 30 20 17 15 12 10)
    • used in contests like DX etc.

Keyboard Assignments

• Ctrl+J - Toggle through the Countries, Zones, Sections & Other windows
  • When the Multiplier window is not open, it will be opened.
• Ctrl+Shift+J - Opens or minimizes the Multiplier-by-band window
• Ctrl+Alt+J - Toggles through continents.

Mouse Assignments

• Left-click on multiplier/abbreviation
• Click on the abbreviations and it will populate the Entry Window exchange filed with the correct syntax. It will overwrite the current exchange so be careful!
• It will only work for contests where Exchange1 is used for the county or section, which is many contests, but not all.
• Right-click in the window - a menu will appear
  • Show Zones/Countries :
    • Countries selected: Shows the zone for a selected country.
    • Zones selected: Shows the countries in the selected zone.
  • Show Calls Worked - Shows all calls worked in this country or zone.
  • Set Grid center - Shows a dialog in which you can enter the desired grid square (4 digits long) on which to center the grid square view.
  • Help - Show the help file for this window.

Radio Button Assignments

• Country - Show the countries worked for the band chosen.
• ZN - Show the zones worked for the band chosen.
• Sect - Show the sections or states worked for the band chosen.
• Other - Show the other possible multipliers worked for the band chosen.
  • in VHF contests a Grid square overview will be shown.
• Auto - Band filter
  • Auto - Shows the bands for the selected contest (mostly the major 6 HF bands)
  • HF - shows all 6 major HF bands
  • VHF - shows all VHF and up bands (50 MHz and up)
  • HF + WARC - shows all HF bands
  • All separate bands - 1.8, 3.5, 7 .... up to 241 GHz
• Auto - Mode filter
  • Auto - Shows the mode as selected for the chosen contest (CW, SSB, Mixed, Digi)
    • one block per band when a single mode is selected
    • two blocks per band when Mixed is chosen as 'Mode category' which can be found on the tab 'Contest' under 'File | Open Log in Database' dialog'.
  • CW - shows only CW contacts (one block per band)
  • SSB - shows only SSB contacts (one block per band)
  • Dig - shows only Digital contacts (one block per band)
  • Rev -when not in a single mode contest this button selects the other mode (SSB versus CW) (one block per band)
• Reset - Resets the two filters to Auto

Colors

• White - You need this one, work 'em.
• (light) Red - Worked country, zone, section or grid square.