[DXBase] DXB2005 and Logbook of the World

2004年4月29日 12:01:51 -0500

With DXB2005 you will be able to import your 'QSL Matches' from the 
Logbook of the World.
It works very well, but you may encounter a few anomalies:
1) The LoTW violates the ADIF standard and incorrectly provides the 
Canadian Provinces in the ADIF field defined for US States. The ADIF 
standard provides a specific field "VE_PROV" for these, but for some 
unknown reason the LoTW places them in the "STATE" field which the 
standard states is reserved for 'US State". When you use the Non-DXB 
Import to import your LoTW QSL's for a VE that has provided their 
province the import will generate an warning message concerning the 
state. The import process will leave the state field blank as it 
should. Here is the ADIF standard which confirms what I have said:
http://www.hosenose.com/adif/adif.html
2) DXB2005, and earlier, was designed to support awards and thus in the 
case of 'Counties' it matches the USA-CA awards program. In that 
program Alaska is divided into 4 districts. These districts are 
South-East, North-West, South-Central and Central. However the actual 
counties are something else, such as 'Fairbanks North Star' , 'Kenai 
Peninsula', etc. These are not imported and result in warnings. You 
will have to study the Alaska map and determine if you can which 
district each lies in for the USA-CA award. Here is a link to the 
counties defined for the USA-CA:
http://www.countyhunter.com/counties.htm
Click on Alaska on that page to get a map to assist you.
In both cases 1) and 2) the import process will correctly credit the Q 
with LoTW confirm.
Here is what I have sent to the ARRL on point 1):
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The ADIF standard http://www.hosenose.com/adif/adif.html provides a field
"VE_PROV" for Canadian provinces. But you are delivering the Canadian
province in the "STATE" field, which the standard says is exclusively
reserved to US States!
I suppose you have stored provinces in the state field in your data base,
however you can correct this error when an export is done by detecting the
country, and if it is VE, then output it correctly in a "VE_PROV" field.
Ron Stordahl N5IN
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I wonder what their reaction will be?
Ron N5IN