[Dxbase] BUG in the Non-DXB Import (Import.exe) Program - NEW FORMAT from LOTW downloads

Wed Jan 10 20:09:33 EST 2018

January 10, 2018
Hi Everyone
I looked at this problem with the Non-DXB Import Program. The new LoTW down load file has extra information after the CNTY text. In the example below the text data is “HI,HONOLULU”, eleven characters long. The extra characters are “// Honolulu”. The Non-DXB Import Program should ignore these extra characters. 
<CNTY:11>HI,HONOLULU // Honolulu
The ADIF Specification has this statement “Characters outside QSO-Data-Specifiers and outside End-of-Record tags are ignored”.
I wrote a simple command line program that reads an ADIF file and writes a new one. Most of the file is not changed. The lines that have “//” are modified. The program deletes the “//” and all characters after that within that line of text.  
I down loaded all my new contacts for 2018 and when I did a test import there were 16 warnings. Like this one.
Warning: County? N1UZ 20180107 234543 3598.00 80m  RTTY   MA WORCESTER // WORCESTER
I ran my program on the ADIF file and did the import with the new file. All the warnings were gone. I checked the counties in the log and they were all correct. Before the import the county data was blank for all these contacts.
The Non-DXB Import Program needs to be updated to ignore the extra characters.
73 Tom, N4TL
 On Tuesday, December 19, 2017, 7:08:03 PM EST, Joe WA6AXE <wa6axe at hotmail.com> wrote: 

 Just FYI to all,
I have been made aware that there might be an OOPS!!  when it
comes to downloading an ADI file from LOTW - and the COUNTY information...
YES!!  There is a conflict NOW -- since LOTW adi file now is FORMATTED
totally different than it ever has been before..  With this conflict,  the COUNTY
information from the LOTW file is NOT IMPORTED..  You will see BUNCHES  of
Warnings in the Error file.
The Non-DXB Import Program  (Import.exe) will have to be modified so that
it can find the correct information...  Here is a SAMPLE QSO (from my LOTW download)
that SHOWS the NEW FORMAT for the STATE and COUNTY  info:
<APP_LoTW_OWNCALL:6>WA6AXE
<STATION_CALLSIGN:6>WA6AXE
<CALL:4>KH7X
<BAND:3>40M
<FREQ:7>7.24200
<MODE:3>SSB
<APP_LoTW_MODEGROUP:5>PHONE
<QSO_DATE:8>20050305
<TIME_ON:6>082000
<QSL_RCVD:1>Y
<QSLRDATE:8>20090501
<DXCC:3>110
<COUNTRY:6>HAWAII
<APP_LoTW_DXCC_ENTITY_STATUS:7>Current
<APP_LoTW_2xQSL:1>Y
<CQZ:2>31
<ITUZ:2>61
<GRIDSQUARE:6>BL01XP
<STATE:2>HI // Hawaii
<CNTY:11>HI,HONOLULU // Honolulu
<eor>
For the sake of my AutoLOTW program -- I am going to in the next few days, go
into the coding and try to make it so that the COUNTY info will be seen correctly.
As far as the DXbase Non-DXB Import -- an update will have to come from Neal ...
Just FYI
73 Joe wa6axe
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