At 06:12 PM 12/13/2007, Ed K1EP wrote: >Well, aside from the fact that I am jealous of your AK and HI >contacts in the 160 contest, there is a major difference between the >ARRL 10 and 160 contests. The 10 uses states and the 160 uses >sections. For the 160 to populate the state, it needs to translate >the section to state. I don't think DxBase does that. You can run >a program on your ADIF file to add the state field to each line >based on the section. That would be a nice utility which could be >written in Perl or something like that.
You can use the DXB Utility along with a callbook-style CD-ROM lookup to populate the state fields (well, at least based on CD Data - no accounting for stations portable in another state for a contest). Make sure you save your database ahead of time, though, just in case! Cheers, Peter, W2IRT
