*Jan 31, 2006: ADIF output and FAQ changes* -- The ADIF report output of LoTW has been tweaked to better conform to the current ADIF specification. Details <http://www.arrl.org/lotw/developer/adifout.html#adiffields> are in the LoTW developers area.
do i still use lotw adif in the import ? From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 31 17:33:15 2006 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack) Date: Tue Jan 31 17:42:28 2006 Subject: [Dxbase] The ADIF report output of LoTW has been tweaked References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg, I think the answer is yes. But interestingly, thanks for pointing out the link. WARNING. According to the ARRL web link for LoTW, they intend to eliminate their use of their own ADIF field called APP_LoTW_OWNCALL. As some of you might remember, this field was created by the ARRL developers of the LoTW as a way of identifying the callsign of the station who made the QSO. Very important for those who have multiple callsigns. According to the recent note, the ARRL developers intend to eliminate this field in future LoTW outputs (in the very near future according to their note) and instead use a field called STATION_CALL. The fields seem to have an identical definition and there is no mention of why the ARRL developers are going to eliminate the APP_LoTW_OWNCALL field or for that matter even why they are making the change. In any case, DXbase uses the APP_LoTW_OWNCALL field when importing an LoTW style ADIF file. At the time we implemented the use of this field, we were assured that it would not be changed in the future, but here we are! If the ARRL developers eliminate this field, your LoTW imports from ADIF will potentially not work correctly since the callsign of the station who made the QSO would no longer be read from the ARRL ADIF file. If this matters to you, then I urge you to notify the ARRL developers that they must maintain backward compatibility with the ADIF fields that have already been implemented in third-party software and leave this field in tact unchanged. If the ARRL developers go forward with their change, you would have to edit the ARRL ADIF file you download and perform a search/replace of STATION_CALL with APP_LoTW_OWNCALL before you use the ADIF file obtained from ARRL LoTW. Regards, Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dxbase (E-mail)" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 4:33 PM Subject: [Dxbase] The ADIF report output of LoTW has been tweaked > *Jan 31, 2006: ADIF output and FAQ changes* -- The ADIF report output of > LoTW has been tweaked to better conform to the current ADIF specification. > Details <http://www.arrl.org/lotw/developer/adifout.html#adiffields> are > in the LoTW developers area. > > do i still use lotw adif in the import ? > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] >
