With DXB2005 you will be able to import your 'QSL Matches' from the Logbook of the World.
It works very well, but you may encounter a few anomalies: 1) The LoTW violates the ADIF standard and incorrectly provides the Canadian Provinces in the ADIF field defined for US States. The ADIF standard provides a specific field "VE_PROV" for these, but for some unknown reason the LoTW places them in the "STATE" field which the standard states is reserved for 'US State". When you use the Non-DXB Import to import your LoTW QSL's for a VE that has provided their province the import will generate an warning message concerning the state. The import process will leave the state field blank as it should. Here is the ADIF standard which confirms what I have said: http://www.hosenose.com/adif/adif.html 2) DXB2005, and earlier, was designed to support awards and thus in the case of 'Counties' it matches the USA-CA awards program. In that program Alaska is divided into 4 districts. These districts are South-East, North-West, South-Central and Central. However the actual counties are something else, such as 'Fairbanks North Star' , 'Kenai Peninsula', etc. These are not imported and result in warnings. You will have to study the Alaska map and determine if you can which district each lies in for the USA-CA award. Here is a link to the counties defined for the USA-CA: http://www.countyhunter.com/counties.htm Click on Alaska on that page to get a map to assist you. In both cases 1) and 2) the import process will correctly credit the Q with LoTW confirm. Here is what I have sent to the ARRL on point 1): ===== The ADIF standard http://www.hosenose.com/adif/adif.html provides a field "VE_PROV" for Canadian provinces. But you are delivering the Canadian province in the "STATE" field, which the standard says is exclusively reserved to US States! I suppose you have stored provinces in the state field in your data base, however you can correct this error when an export is done by detecting the country, and if it is VE, then output it correctly in a "VE_PROV" field. Ron Stordahl N5IN ===== I wonder what their reaction will be? Ron N5IN
