== Recognizing Broken QSOs ==

If on the Main window's '''Log QSOs''' tab you select the '''Log Page Display''' entry for a QSO that contains an error in an item displayed in a panel ('''Auxiliary''', '''QSL''', '''Online QSL''', '''Award''', '''Contest''', '''Propagation''', '''Details''', '''User-defined''') that is not currently visible, DXKeeper will automatically make the panel visible, flashing the item's label in red font (for a critical error that must be corrected) or blue font (for an error that should be corrected); a required but unspecified item like Call or Begin or Band or Mode is considered an error.

QSOs that contain one of the following errors are considered '''broken''':

 * missing or invalid country code

 * invalid callsign

 * missing band

 * missing mode

 * missing or invalid begin date

 * missing or invalid end date (e.g. before begin date)

 * missing station callsign

 * satellite name is present, but propagation mode isn't "SAT"

 * invalid or inconsistent [[https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxkeeper/Help/Items.htm#state|primary administrative subdivision]] or [[https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxkeeper/Help/Items.htm#cnty|secondary administrative subdivision]]

 * invalid or inconsistent ARRL section

 * missing myQTH ID (if one or more myQTHs have been defined)

 * invalid IOTA tag

 * invalid QSL dates (sent/received, cards/eQSL/LotW)

If it's the [[https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxkeeper/Help/Items.htm#state|primary administrative subdivision item]] (e.g. state, province, prefecture...) or [[https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxkeeper/Help/Items.htm#cnty|secondary administrative subdivision item]] (e.g. county, city/gun) whose label is flashing in blue font but you don't care about the accuracy of these items, then on the Awards tab of DXKeeper's Configuration window, uncheck the '''Other Awards''' panel's '''Subdivision validity checking''' box; DXKeeper will then cease to make the '''Award''' panel visible to show you that the currently-selected QSO contains an invalid primary administrative subdivision or secondary administrative subdivision item.

=== Identifying Broken QSOs ===

 1. if you want to be informed of QSOs whose [[https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxkeeper/Help/Items.htm#entity|DXCC entity]], [[https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxkeeper/Help/Items.htm#state|primary administrative subdivisions]], and [[https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxkeeper/Help/Items.htm#cnty|secondary administrative subdivisions]] are inconsistent, check the '''Subdivision validity checking''' box in the '''Other Awards''' panel on the Configuration window's '''Awards''' tab

 1. click the '''Broke''' button in the '''Filter''' panel at the bottom of the Main window's '''Log QSOs''' tab

The Log Page Display will be filtered to contain only QSOs that have been designated as '''broken''' - or whose DXCC entity, Primary Administrative Subdivision, and Secondary Administrative Subdivisions are inconsistent (if '''Subdivision validity checking''' is enabled

=== Correcting Correctable QSOs en Masse ===

 1. backup your log: on the '''Log''' tab of DXKeeper's Configuration window, click the '''Backup''' button

 1. on the '''Check Progress''' tab of DXKeeper's Main window, depress the CTRL key while clicking the '''Recompute''' button

The report displayed by the '''Recompute''' function will list

 * each change made to correct a previously-broken QSO

 * each uncorrectably broken QSO, and the reason why it is broken

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