Dwayne, I would highly recommend you go to: http://dx4win.ad1c.us/appnotes/lotw.html and follow Jim, AD1C's excellent instructions for downloading your DX4WIN log entries to LOTW. If you have not done so in the past I suppose you could download your complete log. But remember the contacts you will be converting to an ADIF file then entering into LOTW will depend on what you have selected in the little LoTW box on the full main window of DX4WIN. If Y then that QSO will be added, if N then it won't.
The DXL file is your saved QSO's in the log. It is NOT used for creating the LOTW files. If you mess up the DXL file and have not saved a copy in a safe place then your previous log entries will be corrupted or lost and gone forever. As a bare minimum you should go to the main FILE menu, select PREFERENCES, open the QSO tab, and assign a safe place in the SECONDARY BACKUP DIR box. I use an ext HD for this. But whenever I am going to perform some function such as doing an update using Jim's http://dx4win.ad1c.us/updater/index.html sub program, or entering a contest ADIF file into DX4WIN, or doing a LOTW download, etc, I also save my DXL file to a thumb drive. I save the DXL file to a thumb drive quite frequently. It is very easy to do. Plug your thumb drive into a USB port. A little window will open asking if you wish to look at the files on the thumb drive. Use this window to identify the drive number your PC has assigned to the thumb drive (D: E: M: etc), then you can close the little window. Then in DX4WIN go to FILE and select SAVE AS. A widow will open showing your DXL file (ve6qx.dxl). Using your mouse right click on this DXL file. Another small window will open. Then select SENT TO: and select the thumb drive and COPY. If you already have a DXL file on the thumb drive you can tell it to copy and replace or copy and keep both files (the last one you previously saved and the current one). Your DXL file is now safe on your thumb drive. It just takes four quick clicks and after you do it a couple of times it will just take you a second to do it. One last thought. Once you have uploaded your ADIF file to LOTW and after it is processed you can get your report back from LOTW showing what QSO's you have matches with and additional info about them (state, county, zone, grid, etc). This is under Jim's instruction: Downloading the confirmations from ARRL. You will get a report back from LOTW with the same ID you used to upload your ADIF file. For example, say I uploaded my latest upload file I named LOTW_10012014.adi (This is the date of the upload). I will get back from LOTW the report file named LOTWREPORT10012014.adi. DO NOT MIX UP THESE TWO FILES!!!! The very first time I did the LOTW upload I accidently used my upload file (example LOTW_10012014.adi) as the report file and uploaded it back into DX4WIN. When I checked my log I noticed everyone of my QSO's showed confirmed by LOTW but none of them showed the extra info (state, county, zone, etc) I expected to see. Then I realized what I had done. I had saved my DXL file to the thumb drive after doing the upload to LOTW. So I replaced my now corrupted DXL file with the known good one and then uploaded the correct LOTWREPORT10012014.adi to DX4WIN and all was well. Had I not saved my DXL file along every step of the way I would have been in BIG trouble. So be careful to not mix up the file you send to LOTW with the report file that they send back to you. They will have the same name except the report will have REPORT as part of its name and will have a later date/time. They appear very similar and if you are not careful they can get mixed up. Good luck Alan, K7ACZ -----Original Message----- From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dwayne Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 10:11 AM To: John 5B4AHK; Rick Murphy Cc: DX4WIN Reflector Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ADIF Dwayne here (ve6qx)..... I think I got it ??? I had two diff. logs saved in the save folder of Dx4win, so I renamed one of them.. Now there is just one named Ve6qx.DXL ... The other one was ve6qx bug.DXL which is renamed to just Bug.. Ok that just leaves one with ve6qx which is the log I want to make a ADIF for arrl es TQSL.. So that should make things easier ???? No prob. if you guys are getting big headache,, I understand.... We are getting closer, I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel Dwayne Ve6qx ----- Original Message ----- From: "John 5B4AHK" <5b4...@cytanet.com.cy> To: "Rick Murphy" <k...@arrl.net> Cc: "Dwayne" <8...@telus.net>; "DX4WIN Reflector" <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:48 PM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ADIF Hi Dwayne Agree with all said so far, just don't write a file extension name .dxl or .adf etc, ONLY the name of the file and the program will create an ADIF file for uploading 73 John 5B4AHK. P3M. G3SZG. On 03 Oct 2014, at 01:14, Rick Murphy <k...@arrl.net> wrote: Dwayne, LoTW menu. Export to LoTW. You should then get a file selector window with "Select the ADIF file to write to". Choose a name like "VE6QX-October-2-2014". That will give you an ADIF file that you can sign with TQSL. It sounds like you're saving the log records to VE6QX.DXL, which is a very bad idea as it will over-write your log. 73, -RIck > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Dwayne <8...@telus.net> wrote: > > Tnx very much everyone for responding... When I click on LOTW in my > Dx4win 804 prog. a window pops up showing save and I try to write in > area the file Ve6qx.DXL which is the main file I want to send to LOTW > in ADIF.. > I ad the month and year plus the number 1 and it won't let me do it... > > I need a better education on computers.. And I thought learning the > regs/theory/ CW was hard... Tnx again Dwayne > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" < > jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> > To: "Dwayne" <8...@telus.net> > Cc: "DX4WIN Reflector" <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 2:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ADIF > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dwayne VE6QX wrote: > > When Iam in Dx4win and click on Lotw, it asks me to select a file,I >> select the file from the 'save' in Dx4win.. Ok so then it asks if I >> want to rewrite this file and I say no because I want to keep the >> original file in the save dir. so I can continue to add to it.. Iam >> afraid of screwing up the original file in my program... And it won't >> let me rename this file so that it can be a new file..... > > Duane, I'm a little confused here. > > Your DX4WIN log file has a ".DXL" file extension. This is the file > you do not want to over-write (unless you are re-saving your log). An > exported ADIF file will have a ".ADI" file extension. When you try to > save the exported ADIF file, just type a unique name into the "File > name:" field in the "Save As" window. That name will automatically > have the .ADI extension appended onto it when you save the file. > > Then remember this name, because you will need it for whatever program > into which you are importing it. > > Does this make sense? > > 73 - Jim AD1C > > -- > Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us > ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
