[Dx4win] DX4WIN, satellites and LoTW

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

--- Jay Hainline <ka9cfd at winco.net> wrote:

> I am using 7.03 and its a problem. LOTW requires the actual satellite name
> in the ADIF file. DX4WIN needs to add a field to put the name in it. I
> believe it is placed in SAT_MODE field in ADIF. I would also be interested
> if someone has figured an easy way to do this. 

Some more information.

Jay is right.  Satellite QSOs are "different" than other QSOs.  There are two
"meaningful" references to LoTW and Satellite QSOs on the web:

  https://p1k.arrl.org/lotw/faq#sats
  http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/news/viewBrowse.php?nID=2086&y=2003&v=292

The amsat.org link seems to be the most useful.  LoTW requires that each ADIF
record include these two fields:

  PROP_MODE (should be SAT)
  SAT_NAME  (see the arrl.org link)

DX4WIN does have a "Sat Band" field but it's not exported to ADIF.  DX4WIN does
not track the Satellite name which which LoTW requires.  Even SAT_NAME by
itself isn't really sufficient because a single satellite may operate in
multiple modes.  The SAT_MODE field is defined in the ADIF specification
(http://www.adif.org/adif218.htm) but there is no enumeration for it.

I don't see how this can be done without Paul changing the underlying logbook
format.

73 - Jim AD1C


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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us