Mark, As you have discovered, DX4WIN is great for its intended purpose -- chasing DX -- but not great as a Contest package. Although I have also used it for lightweight contesting, it neither tracks your contest score nor prepares the appropriate extract (usually Cabrillo) file for submission. Your have 3 alternatives at this point: 1) install a Cabrillo conversion program and try to get it to work with the DX4WIN ADIF export file [didn't work for me... conflict between ADIF formats]; 2) Install a contest program that will import ADIF and export Cabrillo... and read your DX4WIN records into it; or 3) Accept the generous offer from another ham to do the conversion for you [which is the route I took several times! ;-].
As my level of contesting increased, I recently reached the inevitable point of using a real contesting program for contest activities. In my case, N1MM for contesting and DX4WIN for DX'ing. However, DX4WIN will continue to be the "center of the universe" for my ham radio log. This means that at the end of this weekend's contest I exported from N1MM to Cabrillo for submission; and exported to ADIF for import into DX4WIN. -larry K8UT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DX4WIN List Server" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 18:24 Subject: [Dx4win] 160 contest submissions from DX4WIN > well I just got on to give out a few Q's this weekend, but now am up to > over a > hundred contacts, so what's a good way to score and submit from DX4WIN? > > Mark N2QT > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 28 10:13:06 2006 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duane A Calvin) Date: Tue Feb 28 10:17:52 2006 Subject: [Dx4win] LoTW Import Problem Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruce, I've been doing LOTW with DX4WIN since LOTW became available, and I have never seen the problem you describe. Off the top of my head, I don't know what could be causing the problem. I have lots of "Upload Cfm" flags set to "Y" without the corresponding paper QSL flag. There must be something else going on with your import. Have you checked to make sure dates/times correctly match (they should, but have you checked?). 73, Duane On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:01:59 -0800 "Bruce McCain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using DX4WIN v. 7.01 and recently downloaded and imported my > complete ADIF file from LoTW. However, during the import, I received > a pop-up telling me that 1,087 confirmed records were not imported. > Doing some math, and basic troubleshooting, I discovered the issue > and problem. > > The only LoTW/ADIF records that set the Upl_Cnf field to Y also had > Y in the basic Cnfm field. If the Cnfm field was "N" then the ADIF > import would not set the Upload Confirmed Flag to Y. > > BTW: Under Preferences/QSO, I have confirmed QSO's set to Card or > Upload Also, I exported my entire DX4WIN file as outlined elsewhere > here, so every QSO has a Y in the upload field and an upload date. > DUring the import I also used the "Imported QSO sets Upload > Confirmed Flag" option. > > The only issue is that the import will not set the Upload Confirmed > Flag to Y unless the Cnfm filed is also Y. But that sort of defeats > the purpose of tracking cards and LoTW separately, so what's the > point with the "feature" in DX4WIN? > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > > Duane Calvin, AC5AA Austin, Texas
