Tom Thanks for the analysis, I haven't had a chance to look at the program so this will ease the repair tremendously.
73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com See components used in our computers at: https://www.amazon.com/shop/abrohamnealllc On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Tom Lewis via Dxbase < dxbase@mailman.qth.net> wrote: > January 10, 2018 > > Hi Everyone > > I looked at this problem with the Non-DXB Import Program. The new LoTW > down load file has extra information after the CNTY text. In the example > below the text data is “HI,HONOLULU”, eleven characters long. The extra > characters are “// Honolulu”. The Non-DXB Import Program should ignore > these extra characters. > > <CNTY:11>HI,HONOLULU // Honolulu > > The ADIF Specification has this statement “Characters outside > QSO-Data-Specifiers and outside End-of-Record tags are ignored”. > > I wrote a simple command line program that reads an ADIF file and writes a > new one. Most of the file is not changed. The lines that have “//” are > modified. The program deletes the “//” and all characters after that within > that line of text. > > I down loaded all my new contacts for 2018 and when I did a test import > there were 16 warnings. Like this one. > Warning: County? N1UZ 20180107 234543 3598.00 80m RTTY MA WORCESTER // > WORCESTER > > I ran my program on the ADIF file and did the import with the new file. > All the warnings were gone. I checked the counties in the log and they were > all correct. Before the import the county data was blank for all these > contacts. > > The Non-DXB Import Program needs to be updated to ignore the extra > characters. > > 73 Tom, N4TL > > > > > On Tuesday, December 19, 2017, 7:08:03 PM EST, Joe WA6AXE < > wa6...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Just FYI to all, > > > I have been made aware that there might be an OOPS!! when it > > comes to downloading an ADI file from LOTW - and the COUNTY information... > > > YES!! There is a conflict NOW -- since LOTW adi file now is FORMATTED > > totally different than it ever has been before.. With this conflict, the > COUNTY > > information from the LOTW file is NOT IMPORTED.. You will see BUNCHES of > > Warnings in the Error file. > > > The Non-DXB Import Program (Import.exe) will have to be modified so that > > it can find the correct information... Here is a SAMPLE QSO (from my LOTW > download) > > that SHOWS the NEW FORMAT for the STATE and COUNTY info: > > > <APP_LoTW_OWNCALL:6>WA6AXE > <STATION_CALLSIGN:6>WA6AXE > <CALL:4>KH7X > <BAND:3>40M > <FREQ:7>7.24200 > <MODE:3>SSB > <APP_LoTW_MODEGROUP:5>PHONE > <QSO_DATE:8>20050305 > <TIME_ON:6>082000 > <QSL_RCVD:1>Y > <QSLRDATE:8>20090501 > <DXCC:3>110 > <COUNTRY:6>HAWAII > <APP_LoTW_DXCC_ENTITY_STATUS:7>Current > <APP_LoTW_2xQSL:1>Y > <CQZ:2>31 > <ITUZ:2>61 > <GRIDSQUARE:6>BL01XP > <STATE:2>HI // Hawaii > <CNTY:11>HI,HONOLULU // Honolulu > <eor> > > > > For the sake of my AutoLOTW program -- I am going to in the next few days, > go > > into the coding and try to make it so that the COUNTY info will be seen > correctly. > > > As far as the DXbase Non-DXB Import -- an update will have to come from > Neal ... > > > Just FYI > > > > 73 Joe wa6axe > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
