[DXBase] LoTW Questions

2003年12月28日 10:30:26 -0600

Don AA5AU
DXBase does not yet have LoTW import capability. At this point you 
would have to Q by Q update your DXBase log manually from the LoTW pages 
for the matches you get. Knowing this I thought I might assist my 
effort a bit by downloading the 'full download report' offered on the 
LoTW page, then I imported this into an EMPTY DXBase log for the purpose 
of preparing a printed report which would be easier to use. Still I 
would have to hand enter the information into my regular data base, but 
could maybe save some eye strain. It didn't help much, and I got quite 
a lot of import errors where apparently there was incompatibility 
between the LoTW's implementation of ADIF and DXBases's version.
There is a lot of merit in waiting for DXBase to be updated so all this 
can be performed automatically. 
In the mean time I would recommend uploading your data to the LoTW. 
After getting your matches, only enter the ones which you recognize to 
be of exceptional value to your log, things which you actually need. In 
reviewing my 750 matches I would say only a handful are of significance 
at this point.
A DXBase LoTW import system will I think have to offer many options, for 
example will it only update the QSL received column, or will it update 
other fields such as zones, grids, state, county, and only then if these 
fields in your log are currently empty? Also what happens if you upload 
the same LoTW entry a second time..which is surely going to happen.
We really do need this capability, but it must be done with care.
Ron - N5IN
Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
>I've obtained my certificate and I know how to create the ADIF file with DXbase
>to upload the LoTW site.
>>During the beta testing period, I uploaded over 50k QSO's and had several
>thousand QSL's. I think I understand that if I were to upload all these QSO's
>again and receive all these QSL's that I would have to manually enter the QSL's
>received in DXbase. Is this true?
>>I also think I understand the ARRL has created an ADIF reporting file that can
>be downloaded with the QSL's received information to be used for logging
>programs (such as DXbase) so this manual entry is not required. Is that true?
>>If the above two questions are true, is it better for me to wait until DXbase
>2005 comes out before uploading my QSO's or to take say, 100 QSO's at a time and
>send them, get the QSL's and enter them manually into DXbase 2004.
>>Or am I way out of the ballpark on this one?
>>I'm sorry if this has been covered here before but I didn't catch it if it was.
>>Thanks,
>Don AA5AU
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