The following screens show all the setup information the user can provide. Beginning users only will have to specify a few of these parameters to get going. But as you learn to appreciate the power of DX4WIN, you will come back to these screens more often.

On the personal page you should specify your home coordinates so direction and distance will be displayed based on your home QTH.

The station page allows you to select bands and modes you have an interest in. You can also specify additional hardware interfaces for a rotator controller and a band decoder (antenna switcher)

In the QSO page, can can specify the default band and mode for a new QSO (if you do not have a radio connected)

Here you select the radio you may have connected to your computer and an optional CW interface to your radio.

On the packet window can select the use of a regular TNC or an Internet connection to get packet spots. When a new spot comes in, the Windows sound system can be used to announce an interesting spot.

The scroll back capacity (the number of available lines) can just be a few or in the thousands. If you don't like the colors used to distinguish interesting DX spots, you can change them here.

Select your RTTY interface here, or if you do not use the RTTY, select a second source for DX spots.

The drop down menu shows a few of the callbook CDROMs that DX4WIN supports. Also note that DX4WIN can call upon the GOLIST to obtain QSL information.

The F2 key can be programmed to confirm QSOs, or to mark a QSO to print a QSL label. DX4WIN can also remember the order in which you confirm QSOs, and print QSL labels in the same order. Handy when you are a QSL manager!

On the DXCC tab you can specify what bands and modes are valid for DXCC (just in case the ARRL comes up with different rules.) You can also select the types of major awards you want DX4WIN to handle for you. Similar setup screens are available for the WAS, WAZ and WPX awards.

Here you control what your reports look like when they are printed. The last three lines show the text to be printed on a regular QSL label and on a label for a SWL station.