Very good, I should have thought of that. duh....
------------------------------------------------------------ Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work. ------------------------------------------------------------ Bill H. in Chicagoland [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "DXBase (E-mail)" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:59 PM Subject: Re: [DXBase] Import Question > After you export your WriteLog file to ADIF, open the ADIF file in a > text editor (Wordpad is good for this). Do a global search and replace > (control H) and change all instances of QTH to STATE. When you import > this to DXBase, you will get warning messages for the Canadian provinces > and DX serial numbers, but the QSO will still be imported. The states > will show up in the STATE field in DXBase. The provinces and serial > numbers won't, but the QSO still gets imported. > > 73, > > Jim N6VH > > > FireBrick wrote: > > > > Absolutely nothing. > > That's a problem with Roundup, not DXbase. > > If you remember both Stateside and DX exchanges went into the "qth" field of > > Writelog. > > So in your import, DXbase assumed your qth was either OH or 001. (example) > > > > Mine showed ZF2NT as 1188 in the qth field > > > > That is why I put the name of the contest into the Notes Field of the import > > program. So I know why there is that little glitch. > > > > I don't think there is a way around this, at least I haven't found it. > > I had an old dos program years ago that had a feature to 'Upgrade' call > > info. It would check each call against the call book and if a name or > > address was changed it would ask if you want to make the corrections. > > You can find out the State of a Callsign if you have a callbook working and > > if you change the award selection in Summary from DX to HF-US STATE, it will > > give you your worked/confirmed status. > > > > But don't think that's really so important as it mostly happens with contest > > qso's in MY case. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Do jellyfish get gas from eating jellybeans? > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Bill H. in Chicagoland > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Hess, Robert P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "DXBase (E-mail)" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 1:29 PM > > Subject: [DXBase] Import Question > > > > > Long time 5.0 DOS user. Just converted to 2002 so sorry if this question > > > has been asked before. > > > > > > I just imported a RTTY contest log from Writelog to DXbase. (Also just > > > converted from RTTY for DOS to Writelog). All of the States ended up in > > > DXBase's "QTH" field and not the "State" field. What am I doing wrong? > > > > > > Bob > > > W1RH > > > _______________________________________________ > > > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > >
