I was wanting to download all my eQSL cards to my computer. How could I do this without having to send hours, or days downloading one image at a time? I would like to display the images of the eQSl card that I received on my website, if that is allowed. But it is not going to be worth the hassle if I have to d/l them 1 at a time

Mark
N8MNI

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N8MNI Mark Crosbie

Hi Mark,
Did you ever find a solution? Same problem here.

73,
David

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G8LZE David

M ark and David,
Somewhere in these forums or on the eQSL Yahoo group, someone posted a link to a program they made called Download_eQSL_cards.exe (or something like that). Try doing a search on that and I'll try to find it again also. When I do, I'll post here again.
73 and good luck!
Andy - n1ork/p

Posted By WD5EAE Stephen Genusa on Apr 3, 2008 12:13 AM

I've written two utilities that may be of interest to other eQSL users.

First there is a program that downloads all eQSL cards to your local harddrive. I could not find another program to do this besides Logic8 but I don't care for how Logic8 handles the cards, including the fact that some cards are never downloaded by Logic8. The program saves the cards off to a local directory using a filename that matches the callsign/date/time/band/mode so that once its downloaded it doesn't try and download them again. That way you can keep your local cards up to date without wasting eQSL bandwidth and time.

Also, yesterday I wrote a VB script that works out of Microsoft Access. It may work outside of Access with some minor changes. I haven't had time to investigate that yet. This script takes an eQSL ADIF file and updates the Ham Radio Deluxe logbook to show eQSLs received.

The program and all source code are available from my web site:
http://www.wd5eae.org/Software.html

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WD5EAE Stephen Genusa

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N1ORK Orest 'Andy' Zajac
Edited by N1ORK Orest 'Andy' Zajac on Jul 28, 2008 at 01:40 AM

Andy,
Many thanks, problem solved!

73
David

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G8LZE David

Andy,
Many thanks, problem solved!

73
David

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G8LZE David

Thank you for the info, Andy

One detail : it does not work with more than 10 000 qsl in the archive because then you can't open the entire archive, you have to limit the date range.

73 de Guy F6DKQ

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F6DKQ Guy FALCOZ

Guy,

can you be more specific on how to "limit date range" ?
The download eQSL software does not provide way to input date range.

Please elaborate,

73,
de ku1t
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KU1T Zbigniew Tyrlik

Perfect!! I used the windows binary from the http://www.wd5eae.org/Software.html page, and downloaded all of my eQSL card. I've sorted through them now, and am about to upload them to a slideshow on my website and to one of those little electronic picture frames. Neat stuff, thanks for the link!

Dave WB4IUY

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WB4IUY Dave Hockaday

Dave,
I think we should stop using this utility because, accodording to Dave N5UP (site owner), this utility greatly slows down the server when too many people try to use it. Here is a quote from Dave from the eQSL Yahoo group:

I just spent several minutes trying to track down a 60% CPU
utilization with a high network bandwidth. I finally discovered 3
German users were mass-downloading their eQSL graphics.

As I mentioned before, the system has to generate each eQSL graphic at
the time you request it. It is not simply a matter of downloading a
static file. Large volume graphics generation is not a good idea, and
if it is abused, I'll have to implement a throttle rather than
allowing a few people to jeopardize the speed of the system for the
rest of the members.

73,
Dave Morris, N5UP
Webmaster, eQSL.cc

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N1ORK Orest 'Andy' Zajac
Edited by N1ORK Orest 'Andy' Zajac on Feb 16, 2009 at 08:03 PM

Ooooopsss! Sorry about that. I just checked, and my total download was about 7megs. They downloaded very quickly, but didn't know I was helping to choke the system. I'll be saving my future cards to a location on my desktop, one at a time, so as to not cause a problem.

PS, I love being able to display my cards like this, as I have boxes of paper cards from way back, that do nothing but collect dust (my walls are already covered in cards in those thin plastic display pouches).

Dave WB4IUY

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WB4IUY Dave Hockaday
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http://www.EastRC.org

You know, one reason I would like to download all my cards is because (as I understand it), another user can delete their logs and then the corresponding confirmed eQSL cards vanish.

I feel that this is wrong; once confirmed an eQSL should be safe (rather like once you have a paper QSL, it's yours to keep and the owner can't suddenly change their mind).

Apologies if I've misunderstood this part of the way the system works!

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G3ZOD Graham Smith

Graham,
I don't believe confirmed eQSLs can be deleted. I recently uploaded some QSOs for a club (w1brs) that had the RST missing. When I tried to delete them so that I could reload the corrected ones, the system would not delete the confirmed ones. I had to go and manually edit each of those.
73
Andy - n1ork

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N1ORK Orest 'Andy' Zajac

Andy, that's not what the Delete log entries web page says:

http://www.eqsl.cc/QSLCard/DeleteBlockLog.cfm

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G3ZOD Graham Smith
Edited by G3ZOD Graham Smith on Feb 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM

Graham,
I'm just relating what happened to me. Maybe the warning is there just to discourage people from randomly deleting entries.
73
Andy - n1ork

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N1ORK Orest 'Andy' Zajac