Thanks Rick! Certainly glad you brought this to my attention. 73 john
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:39 AM, n4dsp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello. >> Dx4win running for over ten years now. In the beginning I made the >> mistake >> of replacing my country file instead of merging and it threw my dxcc >> entity >> stats out of whack on each and every band. It's impossible to go back and >> correct it at this point. Sent an email to lotw yesterday asking if they >> could send me my log and Norm Fusaro did just that. This morning I >> received >> the file "N4DSP LoTW ADI". What would be the correct process of replacing >> my current inaccurate log with this one? >> > > John, > You really don't want to do that. > > LoTW doesn't keep much data from your log, so you'll lose a lot of > information. > LoTW stores Callsign, band (TX and RX), mode, date, start time, frequency > (TX and RX), Satellite name, and propagation mode. Nothing else from the > log is stored by LoTW, which means you can't get it back that way. > > You'll lose any notes you have for QSOs, none of the contacts will be > marked as confirmed (except for those QSLed on LoTW), information on when > you sent out QSLs, and so forth. All of the DXCC status will be lost > (nothing will be marked as checked). This will take forever for you to fix > if there's a large number of QSOs. > > And, I don't think this will help you in any case, as you'll end up with > exactly the same problem you currently have: you'll be using the current > country file to determine the entity for each contact in the new log, > which > should end up with the same set of bad mappings to entities. > > Unfortunately, I think you're going to have to find and fix the problems > with your log some other way. > 73, > -Rick > -- > Rick Murphy, CISSP-ISSAP, K1MU/4, Annandale VA USA > ______________________________________________________________ > DX4WIN mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
