[DXBase] spot filtering;35% of LoTW QSLs have bad QTH data?
Richard Detweiler
[email protected]
2004年5月06日 08:36:58 -0500
Is there a utility that can go in and fix QTH data based on Ham Call CD?
( without manually hitting each record... )
73's
Rich
K5SF
>From: "William H. Hein" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: [DXBase] spot filtering;35% of LoTW QSLs have bad QTH data?
>Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:22:39 -0400
>>Thanks for the people who responded to my post about filtering EU VHF
>spots.
>The cluster I use, K1XX, uses DX Spider. I found the DX Spider manual
>online and am now able to filter out VHF spots not to or from CQ zones 3,4
>or 5 with a few simple commands.
>>Regarding the incorrect QTH data in the LoTW database, I saw the posting
>below on the LoTW reflector the other day. This person determined that
>1400
>or his 4000 LoTW QSLs have bad QTH data (35% error rate, pretty awful). I
>have also noticed a lot of similar errors in my own LoTW files (about 3000
>QSLs from the 95,000 QSOs I've uploaded), but haven't tallied the figures.
>>I strongly recommend that DXBase 2005 users NOT use the LoTW ADIF import
>feature to update any field other than the LoTW confirmation itself. Doing
>so is likely to frequently overwrite good QTH data with bad.
>>73,
>Bill NT1y
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>>Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 08:05:05 -0500
> From: "FireBrick" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Confirmed Entities so far
>>Funny you mention this.
>Because just over the weekend I checked my 4k plus LoTW Qsls. Over 1400 had
>some instance of incorrect data. Usually misspelled counties, incorrect ITU
>zones. Seems that because when you are entering your data for your original
>certificate, LoTW asks for ITU zone first and CQ Zone second. I'm pretty
>sure that was the way it was. I'm betting that a lot of people may have
>missed that and put them in CQ then ITU.
>>I'm not counting zone discrepancies where a W1 is now living in California
>etc.
>>I hope people will check their data and 'Renew' their certificates with the
>correct info.
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