[Dx4win] ARRL Diamond DXCC Challenge

[ALAN ZACK]

Diamond DXCC Challenge Award
I kind of forgot about this until I was just looking around the ARRL Awards
page.
If I am reading correctly you can still submit your application anytime
during 2013.
I have found the Diamond DXCC Challenge Award excel worksheet scorecard on
the ARRL website. I wonder if there is a quick way to import entries from
DX4WIN to this excel scorecard as is done with the CQ DX Marathon conversion
program. Has anyone found a simple way to get the info either to this score
card or some sort of a list that can be submitted as the Diamond DXCC
Challenge Award record sheet that is meant to be filled out manually?

I am also confused with what is the challenge shown on my LOTW account
status. On the bottom of the list in the awards column there is a challenge
line that shows AWARDED: 947, TOTAL---/CURRENT 957. I don't know what this
is. Is it related to the Diamond DXCC Challenge Award?


TIA & 73

Alan, K7ACZ


-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 6:40 AM
To: DX4WIN Reflector
Subject: [Dx4win] ARRL Diamond DXCC Challenge

Hi Folks,

I have been on vacation since 12/22 and just returned home yesterday.
It is going to take me a while to catch up on the E-mail I have missed, so
please be patient.

I understand that the ARRL has released a new DXCC award for 2012 called the
Diamond DXCC:

   http://www.arrl.org/diamond-dxcc

I have not read any of the reflector postings and have only skimmed the
award rules.  I assume people want to know how to track this award in
DX4WIN.

The easiest way to track this award in DX4WIN would be for me to create a
custom award module listing all 231 Diamond DXCC entities.
This is similar to what I did for the Fred Fish Memorial Award (6 meter
VUCC).  You will be able to set the custom award fields for the DXCC
entities you work that qualify for the award, but there will be no spot
filtering, etc. in DX4WIN.  However, you could still generate a needed list
report, for example.

The ARRL also has an Excel spreadsheet you can download to track your
progress.  I could do something similar to what I do for CQ DX Marathon,
i.e. a program to filter the QSOs from an ADIF file you export from DX4WIN,
into a similarly-formatted spreadsheet file that you could copy/paste into
the ARRL spreadsheet.

Either of these two solutions will take me some time to implement.
Please be patient and I'll try to have something before the end of the
month.

73 - Jim AD1C

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