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

Sat Jan 13 19:34:44 EST 2018

Walt,
Yes, it is consistent with the latest specification. The extra characters are essentially comments. 
The ADIF Specification has this statement “Characters outside
QSO-Data-Specifiers and outside End-of-Record tags are ignored”.

73 Tom N4TL ,
 On Saturday, January 13, 2018, 7:25:56 PM EST, Walter Miller%2C AJ6T <aj6t at comcast.net> wrote: 

 Is the new ARRL LoTW county format with the slashes consistent with the latest ADIF specification? My quick web search found the latest ADIF version 3.0.7 has only the state and county separated by a comma:
<Two-letter state abbr.>
COMMA
<county name>
What is really going on here?
73, Walt, AJ6T
> On January 13, 2018 at 2:58 PM Paul Smith <nd4x at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Anyone been to the DXBase.COM web site lately? Just finding DXbase to see if there was an update to the LoTW import program (there was not) was an adventure with the new template website.
>>>>> ________________________________
> From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net <dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Neal Campbell <nealk3nc at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 8:37 PM
> To: Tom Lewis
> Cc: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] BUG in the Non-DXB Import (Import.exe) Program - NEW FORMAT from LOTW downloads
>> Tom
>> Thanks for the analysis, I haven't had a chance to look at the program so
> this will ease the repair tremendously.
>> 73
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>>>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Tom Lewis via Dxbase <
> dxbase at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>> > 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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