[Dxbase] Import

Thu Dec 13 18:12:26 EST 2007

Well, aside from the fact that I am jealous of your AK and HI 
contacts in the 160 contest, there is a major difference between the 
ARRL 10 and 160 contests. The 10 uses states and the 160 uses 
sections. For the 160 to populate the state, it needs to translate 
the section to state. I don't think DxBase does that. You can run a 
program on your ADIF file to add the state field to each line based 
on the section. That would be a nice utility which could be written 
in Perl or something like that.
At 12/13/2007 03:39 PM, Rod Greene wrote:
>All,
>>I recently exported records from two contests that I did in N1MM to ADIF,
>and then imported them into DXB. The first import (for the ARRL 10 Meter
>contest) worked fine. By saying Fine, I mean all the data was transferred
>into the correct fields in DXB. However, when I imported the records for the
>ARRL 160 contest, the "State" information didn't transfer - Except for the
>two records where I worked Alaska (AK) and Hawaii (HI). For those two
>records, the State information transferred correctly into DXB. The two ADIF
>files are very similar but there are some small differences. I used a text
>editor to make the data in the 160 ADIF file match that of the 10M ADIF.
>That didn't help and the results were the same, still no transfer of the
>State information except for those two off-shore contacts.
>>Any suggestions as to what may be the problem? It seems to be in the Import
>program as I can see in the examples window that the State information
>doesn't appear yet when I run the Import program for the other data from the
>10 M contest, it does. ??? I know from the documentation that the Import
>program follows some logic to make sure the new records are formatted
>correctly, etc. but the State information is being discarded or not created
>even though it appears correct when looking at the ADIF source data. i.e.,
>the <SECTION 2:ID> looks good.
>Hope this makes sense. If anyone wants to look at the data, I can send the
>files (or parts) when I get home.
>>Thanks and 73, Rod
>>>--
>Rod Greene, W7ZRC
>3560 N. McDermott Rd.
>Meridian ID 83642
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