[Dxbase] LOTW Import Errors Report

Tue Sep 28 22:18:38 EDT 2004

Joe, I couldn't explain it better myself...
Thanks,
Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Glockner" <jglock2 at airmail.net>
To: "Jim Preston" <jpreston1 at cox.net>
Cc: "DxBase" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] LOTW Import Errors Report
> Jim,
>> As Jack explained this scenario to me when it was brought up
> a while back -- when the first warning/error is caught (such as the
> VE province being in the State adif field -- or -- the wrong
> spelling of the County ... Jack displays the line of info - and
> it just so happens that some of the other info (like the MODE
> field) has not been updated (in that line of data) to reflect
> what should be there - because the warning/error was caught before
> that MODE field was updated..
>> This in no way has any adverse effect on what you are importing.
> As you noted.
>> I hope that the above info helps out in understanding what is
> happening. Jack might send out an email also on this subject.
>> 73 Joe wa6axe
>> Jim Preston wrote:
>> I imported the LOTW report that I downloaded from the ARRL, and got the 
>> expected warnings about states for VE stations, etc. What was 
>> interesting, however, was that some warnings showed the mode as digital 
>> when the actual mode was SSB. These particular warnings were for an 
>> Alaska county, not a warning for the mode. This apparently only shows up 
>> in the error report itself, since no changes were made to the log. The 
>> mode was listed as SSB in the LOTW report and USB in the log. I am using 
>> DXbase 2005 and the latest version of the import program.
>>>> Since no changes were made to the log, this isn't a major problem, but it 
>> is something to be aware of.
>>>> 73,
>>>> Jim N6VH
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