Hello Jim, I remember seeing this last January and saved it hoping to be able to use the info someday. The someday is now.
I just completed the IOTA contest last weekend and it made me think of tracking my IOTA credits in DX4WIN. I presently have 394 IOTA's confirmed. (They did a great job of card checking at Visalia last April). NONE of these IOTA's show confirmed in the AWARDS section of my DX4WIN log window. I have never tracked my IOTA's in DX4WIN other than typing in the IOTA number and IOTA name into appropriate boxes when I log an IOTA contact. But I do generate ADIF's files from DX4WIN to submit to IOTA. As per your instructions below to Mike, R3BM, I went to your app notes. Something I don't understand that I am sure I am missing is how to enter my IOTA data from the IOTA website into DX4WIN. I do not see any ADIF file download to output to DX4WIN. They do provide a Excel CSV file but I don't know how to download it into DX4WIN. In reviewing the app note, I also decided it would be a good thing to enter all my DXCC credits to DX4WIN. I come under the category you mentioned under: " If you already have ARRL DXCC credits, but none of them are tracked in DX4WIN, then start here instead" "I already have DXCC Award credits, but have never tracked them in DX4WIN. What do I do?" As you pointed out, I can list all my DXCC credits from the ARRL LOTW webpage to manually update the DX4Win log AWARDS window. One thing I learned in reading your app notes is that I don't have to make notations for all my 42,697 QSO's in DX4WIN. If I understand your example using EA correctly, if my DXCC records show I have DXCC credit for EA1ABC on 20 mtrs SSB then ALL my EA 20 mtr SSB QSO's will be flagged as CHECKED. Is that correct? However, I have 340 countries confirmed. That is a lot of typing and as you stated prone to mistakes, which I am good at making. What is the DXCC QSL Download file on the LOTW webpage? Mine has the heading of: "ARRL Logbook of the World DXCC QSL Card Report" "Generated at 2015-07-27 23:28:21Z for K7ACZ" and looks like this: <ADIFVER:5>3.0.4 <PROGRAMID:17>LoTW qslcards.php <PROGRAMVERSION:6>v1.3.1 <APP_LoTW_DXCCRecord_Call:5:S>K7ACZ <APP_LoTW_DXCCRecord_Entity:3:N>291 <APP_LoTW_DXCCRecord_Country:24:S>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA <APP_LoTW_DXCCRecord_Name:9:S>Alan Zack <APP_LoTW_DXCCRecord_ARRLId:10:N>xxxxxxxxxx (masked by me) <APP_LoTW_DXCCRecord_SysId:7:S>0000Q2X <APP_LoTW_DXCCRecord_LoTWId:5:S>23621 <APP_LoTW_DXCCRecord_Updated:19:S>2015-07-25 09:28:26 <APP_LoTW_NUMREC:4:N>1909 <eoh> <CALL:6>VE7ZZZ <QSO_DATE:8>19911026 <APP_LoTW_MODEGROUP:5:S>PHONE <APP_LoTW_MODE:5:S>PHONE <BAND:3>10M <DXCC:1>1 <COUNTRY:6>CANADA <CREDIT_GRANTED:24>DXCC,DXCC_MODE,DXCC_BAND <APP_LoTW_CREDIT_GRANTED:40:S>DXCC-M,DXCC-PH,DXCC-10,DXCC-CHAL,DXCC-5B <eor> And so on, and so on, and so on..........................for many many more calls. This is just for the call K7ACZ. I also have records for the call K6ACZ when I lived in CA but my DXCC credits are combined since K6ACZ and K7ACZ are both USA calls. I might be making too big of a deal of this. I was afraid of trying to send my QSO info to ClubLog and the QRZ.COM logbook and then discovered I can just use the same ADIF file I send to LOTW to ClubLog, QRZ.COM logbook and eQSL. So now every time I send an ADIF file from DX4WIN to LOTW I also send it to these other entries. Sorry for all the questions. I am an electronics person (BSEE). I can build and fix radios, antennas, etc, BUT computers are not my forte. Take your time (if you have time) to answer. Many questions here. I really appreciate all your help over the years. Missed you at Visalia. TIA & 73, Alan, K7ACZ -----Original Message----- From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mikhail Bondarev Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:52 AM To: Jim Reisert AD1C Cc: DX4WIN Reflector Subject: Re: [Dx4win] IOTA Hi Jim! Thank you very much for your reply! 73! Mike R3BM 2015-01-29 17:13 GMT+03:00 Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Mikhail Bondarev <m...@r3bm.ru> wrote: > > > Hello! I need help with IOTA award tracking with DX4WIN. How can I > > mark IOTA Ref. accepted by RSGB ? Then how can I filter QSO I need to confirm? > > Mike, it works very similar to DXCC, using the Award Flags. Read this > application note about DXCC: > > http://dx4win.ad1c.us/appnotes/dxcc.html > > Where it says "DXCC", think of "IOTA" instead. > > -- > Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us > ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
