[Dx4win] Oddities importing QSL credit list from LoTW

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Are you actually importing the ADIF file?  You should be using LoW |
Confirm LoTW using ADIF file.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 3:25 PM Scott Townley <scott at nx7u.net> wrote:

> You can download all your credited DXCC QSOs (or QSLs if you prefer)
> from LoTW in ADIF format.
>
> When I import this ADIF file into DX4WIN9, I get a number of errors.
> One is from LoTW itself (for some reason there is no explicit <MODE>
> callout on phone QSOs), but I can fix that in the ADIF file itself.
>
> The strange one is that DX4WIN remaps several QSOs to different DXCC.
>
> For example, ZK1CQ from 1989 is North Cooks...the ADIF record even has
> the correct <DXCC>: index...yet DX4WIN calls it South Cooks.
>
> Same for 3D2AM from 1990.  It's Conway Reef with the correct index, but
> DX4WIN calls it Fiji.
>
> A slightly different issue is with V51NAM from 1990...the error is
> "prefix empty" and sure enough in the imported log there is no prefix
> and therefore no entity identified...except for again, the DXCC index is
> correct in the ADIF record.
>
>
> Any hints as to what is up here?  I can't look at my country file
> ("Country Editor not available") so I can't check valid dates in the
> database (although these are all valid...and I have the cards to prove
> it!).
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Scott NX7U
>
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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, https://www.ad1c.us
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