Some hints on using the the Custom Awards fields of DX4WIN.

The Custom Awards fields are driven by the Dx4win.awd file that is found 
in the /SAVE subdirectory of your DX4WIN directory.  Most are specific to
a particular prefix and/or band.  Once you have entered a call, for example
W1AW, you can tab down to the "Custom award" field and using the up and
down arrow keys, to see what Custom awards are available for that call.  Some
will make sense and some won't, it all depends on how the award is set up.

As an example, using the W1AW call, let's look at how we can enter a Custom
award for the U.S. Islands Award program.

First tab down to the "Custom award" field and using the up and down arrows
select the U.S. ISLANDS AWARD.  (Hint: you can also type the 1st letter of
the award name to be taken to the 1st award beginning with that letter and
then arrow up and down)

Now tab to the "Value" field.  Let's say that W1AW was working from Santa
Barbara Island CA010S.  There are three ways that you can select the value
for the award:

	1).	With the "Value" field selected; type the first letter of 
		the name and you will be taken to the first award value 
		beginning with that letter.  You can then use the up and 
		down arrow keys to select the award value.

	2).	With the "Value" field selected, press F1.  This will bring
		up the Award Value screen.  This list is in sequence by the
		name field.  Start typing in the name of the island and you
		will be taken to the correct award value.

	3).	With the "Value" field selected, press F1.  This will bring
		up the Award Value screen.  This list is in sequence by the
		name field.  Now let's say for some reason the op was only
		able to give you the island number, CA010S.  How are you
		going to find it, simple.  Press F2, this resequences the
		Award Value screen into sequence by the award number.  Now,
		just start typing in the island number CA010 and you will be
		taken to the correct award value.

modified 7 Nov 2001