So if we match these unspecified comfirmations by country, date and time, it would facilitate improving the compatibility between the iceman age and dXBase?
73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal LLC On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Clark L. Stewart <w...@ntelos.net> wrote: > Jim, > > I am also an "Old Timer" and my DXCC records look just as you > described. However, since I have migrated to using Logger32 as my logging > program, I find there is a solution to updating your logger records to > those of the ARRL. > > The first solution I used (in 2011) was a program written by Marek, > SP7DQR. It was called "LoTW to Logger32 v 1.0.1" and it would read your > DXCC records from LoTW and automatically update those (which it could find > the Date and Time for) with the corresponding records in Logger32. When I > ran this it updated 2,065 QSO's as "Granted" by ARRL but gave me 211 QSO's > it could not match. Those I had to do by hand. > > Logger32 has now added a stand-alone program called "ARRL Scraper" > which does the same thing. Here is a link to the Help file describing that > process: > > http://www.logger32.net/help/Logger32/arrl%20scraper.htm > > I have used the ARRL Scraper program for another ham and it worked > similarly to SP7DQR's program. That is, about 90% of the QSO's were able > to be automatically updated to "Granted" status and the remainder had to be > done manually. > > Some of my DXCC records would look like this: > > Callsign Date Band Mode ADIF # QSL/LoTW > 381 19451115 UNKNO SSB 381 QSL > > Without even a callsign and an obviously wrong date (I wasn't born > until 1948!), it is very hard to find that QSO. The 381 in the Callsign > field is just the ADIF number for that country (9V, Singapore) so you could > search for that country and try to figure out which one had been submitted > to ARRL. However, the lack of a "Band" on that ARRL Credit meant that I > needed to find those QSL's and submit them again to ARRL to get credit for > Singapore on whatever band it was. Without the Band credit, I had no > credit on the Challenge Award for that QSO/QSL. > > So, there is a solution (sort of) that can give you "Granted" status > of approximately 90% of your DXCC records (more or less depending on how > long you have been a DX'er.) I thought I would supply this information so > that Joe or Neal would be aware of the possibility of doing at least part > of this in an automated way. I think the ARRL Scraper program just matches > those that it can and then dumps out a list of those that it could not > match and you need to do those manually. > > If no one writes such a program for DXbase, you could import your log > into Logger32, run this ARRL Scraper program, update your log with the > "Granted" status, and export it from Logger32 to be imported into DXbase. > > > 73, Clark, W8TN > > > > > On 5/13/2014 12:32 PM, Jim Spears wrote: > >> One detail that it appears that folks are missing is that there are >> essentially two distinct periods in DXCC history. For many years, qso >> information was not recorded for credit to one's CW, PHONE, MIXED, or RTTY >> standing. DXCC records were manually kept. So one could have DXCC credit >> for various entities including mode but nothing else. >> >> >> Somewhere along the way, the records were converted to a database of some >> sort but information that had not been previously recorded was not added >> since it was not present. Additionally, single band awards were added. >> >> >> When I look at my present LoTW data, there are some entities that I have >> MIXED, CW -and/or PHONE - credit for but no call sign and no qso >> information. Only the fact that I was given credit for the entity at some >> point in the past. FT8Z is an example, I have credit for the entity and >> mode=PHONE but no call sign and no qso information. This will get updated >> real soon as my FT8ZR confirmations showed up in my LoTW account this >> morning. >> >> >> IMHO it is for this reason (perhaps among others) that N7WS's request to >> populate the DXbase Award field cannot be automated. And this explains >> why >> some of the example adi records look as they do. >> >> >> This should not apply to folks who started DXCC after the record keeping >> was >> automated. But in this case, I am unable to figure out a method to >> extract >> only the qsos that were awarded for a DXCC mode/band/entity entry. I have >> often wanted to do the same thing as N7WS but have only been able to see >> that doing it manually is the only way. This is more trouble than I want >> to >> go to. >> >> >> Old Timer Jim/N1NK >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Dxbase@mailman.qth.net >> >> 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:Dxbase@mailman.qth.net > > 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:Dxbase@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
