[Dx4win] Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files

[Mike Rhodes]

Lee,
   I imagine you have this covered already but, just to be sure - the 
city and state is not especially reliable for determining what county 
the station is actually in. The nearest Post Office is sometimes in the 
adjoining county. I think the only truly accurate method is with map 
coordinates (key word 'think'). I don't know how county is being 
determined in the call sign lookup pages any more so maybe that is 
reasonably accurate.
   Just a though on something to possibly watch out for. Good luck with 
your project and yes, I would be interested in seeing what you come up 
with. It would most certainly be a useful tool.

Mike / W8DN


Lee Hallin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I'm new to the list so sorry if this has been asked before.
> 
>   I am in the process of writing a program that looks up a state,city combination and determines the county name.  Then I want to update the DX4WIN .DXL file (directly or indirectly) with the county.  I want to make sure I do it in a way that will allow DX4WIN to"notice" that I added the County and alter any tables, counters etc that it may maintain.
> 
> Ideas I had to accomplish this task:
> 
>   1) Do an Export to a .DXQ/.DXN file.  Modify the County field in the .DXQ file and then re-Import the modified file.
>   2) Export in .ADIF format.  Fix the values and then re-import.
>   3) Modify the .DXL file directly.  If this is done, will County totals/counts get updated?
> 
> If anyone is interested in what I come up with, let me know and I'll email you once I have something working.
> 
> 73,
> Lee  N7NU
> 
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