[DXBase] LoTW confirmations via ADIF file

2003年11月18日 10:50:47 -0800

Wes is right. To get all of the advantages of LOTW we need a utility to 
import the LOTW adif file and only update the confirmed field correctly. 
 That would be both if a card had been already received or LOTW if that was 
only confirmation received.
Being the class operation they are the folks at DXBase will incorporate 
that in the next release,
Steve Porten
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http://home.pacbell.net/sporten
-----Original Message-----
From:	Wes (N7WS) and Linda [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent:	Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:36 AM
To:	Tony Cash; [email protected]; Peter Dougherty
Subject:	Re: [DXBase] LoTW confirmations via ADIF file
At 01:11 AM 11/18/2003 -0500, Tony Cash wrote:
>In a work, NO.

Not quite.
As I wrote earlier, you can open an empty database (I called mine lotw.mdb)
and import the .adi file into it. This will populate the log with all lotw
confirmed qsos. Unfortunately, DXB will report these as confirmed by
"card", rather than "lotw." It will also report the qslrecd date with
whatever arrl reports.
If you wish, you can then import your regular log and have a complete log.
The downside, outside of the obvious complexity and possibilty of screwups,
is that if you have paper qsls for some qsos that are confirmed by lotw,
you've lost this info because when you import the second time, previous
records are not overwritten.
For example, I have paper cards for several qsos with HC8N. HC8N has
submitted his logs to lotw so if I start with an empty database and import
the .adi, I load a dozen or so records that DXB will dutifully report as
confirmed by "card" on such-and-such date.
Now if I use the DXB import to bring in the records from my "regular" log,
all of the HC8N records are ignored so I've lost any data that shows what
qsos are actually confirmed by paper cards and whether I've sent a card.
What you do have by going through this exercise is a complete look at what
you have confirmed by both paper and lotw.
What I now have is too many damn databases after backing up the backups
before trying another experiment. <g>
Note: This is not a lotw problem but a DXbase issue. What we need is an
LoTW import program that looks at each existing record and if it is not
confirmed, writes confirmed by "lotw". If it is already confirmed by
"card" then it changes that to "both". It would also be nice if it
imported grid, state and iota too if those fields are empty in the log.
Wes N7WS
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>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Dougherty" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:40 PM
>Subject: [DXBase] LoTW confirmations via ADIF file
>>>> Hi,
>> Can anybody advise if it's yet possible to load the ADIF file I get from
>> the ARRL's LoTW site into DXBase? I don't like to have to go in and
>> manually add each LoTW QSO if I don't have to, and since they now offer 
a
>> download in ADIF format of all QSLs, that seems like the preferred way 
to
>go.
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>> If I try to import these records every line errors out with something 
like
>> the following:
>>>> "ERROR: HH4/W4WX The field is too small to accept the amount of data 
you
>> attempted to add. Try inserting or pasting less data. HH4/W4WX 20030xxx
>> yyyy 10m USB 59 59" (where x and y are actual values of date and time)
>>>>>>>>>>>> 73 de Peter (W2IRT)
>> [email protected]
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