It's very nice that the user can customize the import filters. I'm not sure that your changes can be saved when you upgrade the program.
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "dx4win POSTINGS" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: [Dx4win] Importing 10M Contest State Data > At 10:49 AM 12/21/02 -0700, you wrote: > > > Pete, > > > > Thanks for the reply, I get no errors - just nothing comes up > >in the state field when its been converted - No state info in > >DX4WIN state field. Not good when you want to get WAS 10! > > OK, I think I see what is going on. The normal N6TR import filter (at > least in version 5.01, which I use) does not capture the State info because > it is not designed to. However, the filter editor in DX4WIN should make it > easy for you to add that capability and create a new import filter. Just > go to File|Import/Export, click on it, select the N6TR filter, then click > on Filter|Edit at the top of that dialogue box. You will need to determine > at what line position the 2-letter State abbreviations are found, and make > the filter pick them up, then save it as (for example) N6TR10. > > The problem with this (and probably the reason why it isn't there already) > is that N6TR log files for the 10M contest put the 2-letter state field in > the same location (in each line) as the DX QTH. That means a certain > amount of confusion, as the program will think that Norwegian stations are > in Louisiana, Dutch stations are in Pennsylvania, etc. You will also get a > lot of errors from 3-letter Dx prefixes. > > What you might want to do is to edit your log file so that it contains only > domestic QSOs, before importing it using a filter that captures the state > data. The neat part about the DX4WIN import filters is that they are > almost infinitely customizable. There may well be more choices, such as > Cabrillo input, in 5.03, or if not there, hopefully in the next revision, > which I'm told is currently in the works. > > I hope this helps. > > 73, Pete N4ZR > Happy Holidays > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win >
