[Dx4win] Log Stat Inaccuracy

[n4dsp]

Thanks Rick!
Certainly glad you brought this to my attention.

73
john

> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:39 AM, n4dsp <n4dsp at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>> Dx4win running for over ten years now. In the beginning I made the 
>> mistake
>> of replacing my country file instead of merging and it threw my dxcc 
>> entity
>> stats out of whack on each and every band. It's impossible to go back and
>> correct it at this point. Sent an email to lotw yesterday asking if they
>> could send me my log and Norm Fusaro did just that. This morning I 
>> received
>> the file "N4DSP LoTW ADI". What would be the correct process of replacing
>> my current inaccurate log with this one?
>>
>
> John,
> You really don't want to do that.
>
> LoTW doesn't keep much data from your log, so you'll lose a lot of
> information.
> LoTW stores Callsign, band (TX and RX), mode, date, start time, frequency
> (TX and RX), Satellite name, and propagation mode. Nothing else from the
> log is stored by LoTW, which means you can't get it back that way.
>
> You'll lose any notes you have for QSOs, none of the contacts will be
> marked as confirmed (except for those QSLed on LoTW), information on when
> you sent out QSLs, and so forth. All of the DXCC status will be lost
> (nothing will be marked as checked). This will take forever for you to fix
> if there's a large number of QSOs.
>
> And, I don't think this will help you in any case, as you'll end up with
> exactly the same problem you currently have: you'll be using the current
> country file to determine the entity for each contact in the new log, 
> which
> should end up with the same set of bad mappings to entities.
>
> Unfortunately, I think you're going to have to find and fix the problems
> with your log some other way.
> 73,
>    -Rick
> -- 
> Rick Murphy, CISSP-ISSAP, K1MU/4, Annandale VA USA
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