[Dx4win] Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files

2006-11-22 Thread Alan Zack
DX4WIN does this automatically for me using data from QRZ.com. When I log a USA station DX4WIN automatically goes to QRZ.com and looks up the station info for me and places it in the F3 Window. For example, on Veterans Day I worked some special events stations including K0AIR. As soon as I

[Dx4win] Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files

2006-11-21 Thread Lee Hallin
Hi all, I'm new to the list so sorry if this has been asked before. I am in the process of writing a program that looks up a state,city combination and determines the county name. Then I want to update the DX4WIN .DXL file (directly or indirectly) with the county. I want to make sure I

[Dx4win] Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files

2006-11-21 Thread Mike Rhodes
Lee, I imagine you have this covered already but, just to be sure - the city and state is not especially reliable for determining what county the station is actually in. The nearest Post Office is sometimes in the adjoining county. I think the only truly accurate method is with map

[Dx4win] Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files

2006-11-21 Thread David Kozinn - K2DBK
In addition to the couple of other problems mentioned, the city and state are often not enough to uniquely identify the actual location. As an example, there are 6 (maybe more?) municipalities in New Jersey named either Washington, Washington Township, Township of Washington, etc. Each of