Yes, I suspected the newer ADIF publications must have changed some things. It's unfortunate that the group elected to redefine existing fields thereby making past implementations subject to fail. This hobby is riddled with loosy goosy standards that tend to be violated over and over again making automated support a constantly moving target... lol ...
Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave AA6YQ" <[email protected]> To: "DXBase Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [Dxbase] State field in ADIF >>>>AA6YQ comments below > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Jack > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:59 AM > To: George Harlem W1EBI; 'DXBase Reflector' > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] State field in ADIF > > > George, > > This is interesting to say the least. The ADIF specification which DXbase > 2007 was coded to identifies the "STATE" field in ADIF to be the "US > State". > > If the ADIF specification has changed to now use the "STATE" field for a > Russian State, I would suggest there is a problem. How would any import > program know that when the STATE field lists NV, that it is NOT a US State > but instead is some other non US entity? > >>>>By inspecting DXCC field, which identifies the QSO's DXCC entity. If the > DXCC field specfies "United States", "Alaska", or "Hawaii", then STATE > specifies a US State. If the DXCC field indidcates "Canada", then STATE > specifies a Canadian province. If the DXCC field specifies "Japan", then > STATE specifies a Japanese Prefecture. etc. > >>>>The generalization of STATE and COUNTY from "US State" and "US County" >>>>to > "Primary Administrative Subdivision" and "Secondary Administrative > Subdivision" respectively was completed in ADIF 2.1.5, which was approved > by > the ADIF development community in September 2004. > > 73, > > Dave, AA6YQ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
