[Dxbase] eQSL confirmations - a new test project

Thu Sep 3 21:15:57 EDT 2009

Looking to the future possibilities, I wanted to see
what the eQSL INBOX adi download looked like. I am
going 
to write a test exe project file for the eQSL
confirmations. 
I know that right now, CQ magazine will take eQSL
confirmations 
and some other awards will also -- so, I wanted to
check what 
condx the adi downloaded file would look like
and only found one 
very small OOPS!
eQSL adi file's TIME_ON field is only 4-digits in 
size - 
such as:
2240
When I import (using my exe trial project program) - I will
only look to the first 4-digits -- since DXbase 2007 uses
6-digits ... and, that I could see, the only bad results
could be when the same call, freq, mode, date, and 4-digit 
time
is the same for two or more qsos.. doesn't look like 
it would
be that much of a problem though.
The eQSL downloaded adi file doesn't have any "QSLRDATE" field,
so after MATCHING the incoming adi QSO with a logbook QSO,
the only thing that I would do is to "indicate" somewhere 
that
the QSO is confirmed via eQSL with:
eQSLcfmd
I would 
probably (for now) put my own eQSL cfmd status into 
my
logbook's "Special 2" column.
Again, this is a test project 
to see how it would import and
give me STATS as to whether 
I did have "anything new".
Just passing this along as FYI.
73 Joe wa6axe
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