Is there a utility that can go in and fix QTH data based on Ham Call CD? ( without manually hitting each record... )
73's Rich K5SF >From: "William H. Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: [DXBase] spot filtering;35% of LoTW QSLs have bad QTH data? >Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:22:39 -0400 > >Thanks for the people who responded to my post about filtering EU VHF >spots. >The cluster I use, K1XX, uses DX Spider. I found the DX Spider manual >online and am now able to filter out VHF spots not to or from CQ zones 3,4 >or 5 with a few simple commands. > >Regarding the incorrect QTH data in the LoTW database, I saw the posting >below on the LoTW reflector the other day. This person determined that >1400 >or his 4000 LoTW QSLs have bad QTH data (35% error rate, pretty awful). I >have also noticed a lot of similar errors in my own LoTW files (about 3000 >QSLs from the 95,000 QSOs I've uploaded), but haven't tallied the figures. > >I strongly recommend that DXBase 2005 users NOT use the LoTW ADIF import >feature to update any field other than the LoTW confirmation itself. Doing >so is likely to frequently overwrite good QTH data with bad. > >73, >Bill NT1y > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 08:05:05 -0500 > From: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Confirmed Entities so far > >Funny you mention this. >Because just over the weekend I checked my 4k plus LoTW Qsls. Over 1400 had >some instance of incorrect data. Usually misspelled counties, incorrect ITU >zones. Seems that because when you are entering your data for your original >certificate, LoTW asks for ITU zone first and CQ Zone second. I'm pretty >sure that was the way it was. I'm betting that a lot of people may have >missed that and put them in CQ then ITU. > >I'm not counting zone discrepancies where a W1 is now living in California >etc. > >I hope people will check their data and 'Renew' their certificates with the >correct info. > > > >_______________________________________________ >DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
