[Dx4win] Importing 10M Contest State Data

Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:55:17 -0500

It's very nice that the user can customize the import filters. I'm
not sure that your changes can be saved when you upgrade the
program.

John
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "dx4win POSTINGS" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 2:17 PM
Subject: [Dx4win] Importing 10M Contest State Data

> At 10:49 AM 12/21/02 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >  Pete,
> >
> >   Thanks for the reply, I get no errors - just nothing comes up
> >in the state field when its been converted - No state info in
> >DX4WIN state field. Not good when you want to get WAS 10!
>
> OK, I think I see what is going on.  The normal N6TR import filter (at
> least in version 5.01, which I use) does not capture the State info
because
> it is not designed to.  However, the filter editor in DX4WIN should make
it
> easy for you to add that capability and create a new import filter.  Just
> go to File|Import/Export, click on it, select the N6TR filter, then click
> on Filter|Edit at the top of that dialogue box.  You will need to
determine
> at what line position the 2-letter State abbreviations are found, and make
> the filter pick them up, then save it as (for example) N6TR10.
>
> The problem with this (and probably the reason why it isn't there already)
> is that N6TR log files for the 10M contest put the 2-letter state field in
> the same location (in each line) as the DX QTH.  That means a certain
> amount of confusion, as the program will think that Norwegian stations are
> in Louisiana, Dutch stations are in Pennsylvania, etc.  You will also get
a
> lot of errors from 3-letter Dx prefixes.
>
> What you might want to do is to edit your log file so that it contains
only
> domestic QSOs, before importing it using a filter that captures the state
> data.  The neat part about the DX4WIN import filters is that they are
> almost infinitely customizable.  There may well be more choices, such as
> Cabrillo input, in 5.03, or if not there, hopefully in the next revision,
> which I'm told is currently in the works.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Happy Holidays
>
>
>
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