This release - correctly includes in the Mixed Honor Roll statistics displayed in the DXCC Summary window current DXCC entities confirmed and verified with CW QSOs made before 1975 (tnx to Craig K9CT) - allows the QSL Queue to be cleared when the Log Page Display is empty (tnx to Paul VE1DX) - if a QSO's TX freq and band don't match because the band is invalid, highlights the band rather than the frequency as erroneous (tnx to Don W5FKX) - if a QSO's RX freq and RX band don't match because the RX band is invalid, highlightd the RX band rather than the RX frequency as erroneous (tnx to Don W5FKX) - removes leading and trailing spaces when importing an ADIF BAND, BAND_RX, or MODE tag (tnx to Don W5FKX) - provides the option to exclude deleted entities from a DXCC submission (tnx to Joe W4TV) - provides the option to specify a default RST Sent and RST Rcvd (tnx to Greg AB7R) - updates the Configuration.htm, MultipleQTHs.htm, and Progress.htm documentation files Notes: 1. the "Initialize RST Items to 59/599" setting on the Config window's General tab has been renamed "Initialize RST Items to default" 2. there's a new "RST sent & received" box on the Config window's Defaults tab; if this box remains empty, then enabling the "Initialize RST Items to default" setting initializes the RST Sent and Received items to 59/599 as function of mode, just as previous DXKeeper releases did. If a default RST is specified, its used to initialize the RST Sent and Received items in newly-created QSOs. DXKeeper 7.9.8 is available via the DXLab Launcher and via 73, Dave, AA6YQ