[Dx4win] RE: Fill in empty States fields

[Vanderydt Theo]

Hi Jim es all,

Me neither Jim and you know why? Because it is just not possible at all!
It took me two full days to partially recover data from old logs and have
my WAS score back to where it was before this hassle started.
For some odd reason i lost data from about 4000 USA qso's in my logbook.
Yes i had a backup but that did'nt contain the data neither.
The strange thing is i only lost the state and counties fields in the log. 
All other
data remained.
This data is easy to retrieve from the Flying Horse CD rom but with DX4win
you have to do this manually! Why is it not possible to retrieve data from 
the
CD for multiple qso's?
Now here is how i did recover all lost info in my log.

1) F8 select K and export all USA qso's to ADIF
2) Import the ADIF log into WIN-EQF
3) Open the log in WIN-EQF that holds all the QSO's with lost data.
4) now the fun part !!! Win-EQF has a great feature ->> Search logbook and 
fill in empty FIELDS.
5) Hit enter and less than a minute later all empty states and counties 
fields are filled in
    with data retrieved from the CD rom trough Win-EQF!
6) Export the log back to DX4Win.

Why is there no such powerfull tool in DX4Win ?
Hopefully this information is usefull to anyone who encouters the same 
problem.
Thank you Jim for keeping the the databases up to date!
Merry Xmas and happy 2008 to you and yours.

PS: Josep thanks for mailing, i'll have a closer look at it soon.

Theo ON4ATW.


I don't know how to do this automatically.  Do you have the QSOs that
you exported from your old logging program?  If they are in ADIF format,
they might contain the STATE field, and there might be a way to replace
the existing DX4WIN QSOs with the original QSOs containing the STATE
information.

Let me know how I can help.

73 - Jim AD1C

On 12/23/2007 1:07 PM, Vanderydt Theo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have about 4000 Q's in my log from USA stations where the state field
> is empty.
> This happened probable when importing the QSO data from my previous log
> but never noticed it until now.
>
> Now here is my question, is there a solution to automatically fill in the
> empty state and county fields?
> I really do not want to do this manually as this would take weeks!
> How can i export only the 4000 Q's out of the log?
> And put them back in afterwards?