[Dx4win] Counties

Fri Feb 25 15:12:19 EST 2022

Ok Dima.
Interesting, I have in my DX4WIN, currently 63,103 QSO and with US stations
I have exactly 31,129 (almost half are with US stations)
I have observed that the same station has worked on 2 different counties, I
do not know how this would solve this the database.
I have manually entered the counties, according to the QSL and LoTW card,
but I have many, that I have worked and not being confirmed, the field
appears on white.
Greetings.
EA8AM

El vie, 25 feb 2022 a las 19:58, UA3AGW Dmitry Zaslavsky via DX4WIN (<
dx4win at mailman.qth.net>) escribió:

>
> Dear Alan and Jim !
>
> Thanks for your valuable feedback! Sure — it’s time for me to start
> entering CTY info during every QSO — then these problems will disappear by
> themselves hihi ! In any case — I will start using the way you’ve offered,
> Luc !
>
> As it was mentioned here — Jim has also written a useful utility that
> would convert the ADIF county abbreviations to counties in DX4WIN log. I
> have not tried it yet, but I suspect that ADIFs from Contesting SW may
> differ one from another, causing a conversion problem.
>
>  For ex., in the case of QSO with KB9LLD from St.Luis in MOQP — an  ADIF
> generated by N1MM SW will contain the following info for a State and CTY
>
> <SECTION:2>MO
>  <APP_N1MM_EXCHANGE1:3>STC
>
> And every other Contest SW will have its own way of building an ADIF
> and the common will be a Standard National 2-letter State and «MOQP
> Standard» 3- letter CTY abbreviations.
>
> So it seems to me that the Cabrillo format, being unique, would allow it
> to be correctly converted to ADIF, and then to do the rest of the work to
> decode abbreviations is the task of Jim’s utility.
>
> I am not familiar with EQSLcc ways of obtaining CTY CFM for CH and
> submitting them — maybe it also has an output file that could be used as a
> source to automatically populate State/CTY fields in DX4WIN’s Log
> for Matching Callsigns after import.
>
> However, this partially works for LOTW. If a user has entered
> his State/CTY info in TCert SW it will sit in his TQ8 file and you’ll
> easily get it from the LOTW Report after download. But unfortunately, it
> will populate QSO Notes field instead of the needed ones and the task will
> be to pull it out from there and re-populate State/CTY fields instead. And
> of course, automatically, not manually, and I think that for this, again,
> you will need to first convert the ADIF file from LOTW Report to ADIF,
> understandable by DX4WIN for further import.
>
> But this does not mean the end of the game, hihi !
> Since I have 5-10 K QSOs with missing CTY information and one in the USA
> would definitely have much more - the only way to collect it automatically
> is to import it from some active СH guy’s "history file" who would like to
> share it, otherwise - extract it in some way from any existing
> open-source database (QRZ,FCC etc.) in the appropriate format, and then
> somehow convert it to import into the Logging Program SW log so that it
> automatically fills in the blanks for State and CTY for any callsign in
> your log that matches DB, with missing State/CTY detail. I guess it could
> be an XLS or ADIF comparison of 2 logs with further filling in the missing
> values in case of a match and the necessary conversion with import. In all
> cases, as a Result — you should get your log with all the State/CITY fields
> populated as if you were doing it manually during the QSO or retroactively.
>
> Jim has already offered me his help and I am working on the issue.
>
> Sorry to subscribers for taking your time reading this — but technically
> it’s not an off-topic (as a CH-issue) because this could be a useful but
> missing feature for DX4WIN even more important that unique callsigns
> calculator option which is also much needed for our users/
>
> Sorry to subscribers for taking your time reading this — but technically
> it’s not an off-topic (say - a kind of CH-issue) because this could be a
> useful but missing feature for DX4WIN even more important than the «Unique
> callsigns» calculator option which is also much needed for our users.
>
> Best 73/s !
>
> Dima, UA3AGW
>
> >Четверг, 24 февраля 2022, 11:11 +03:00 от Luc <canaryluc at gmail.com>:
> >
> >Thank you Alan for the information.
> >I'll try it in my version 8.05.
> >Everything that is to make it life easier to American county hunters,
> will be welcome.
> >73
> >El jue, 24 feb 2022 a las 0:07, Alan Zack (< k7acz at cox.net >) escribió:
> >>You may already know this but just in case, with the main QSO window
> open, you click the F3 key a window will open marked CALLSIGN/MGR. This
> show QSL info for the call. If the call is a USA/KP4/KP2/KL7/KH6 call the
> county will be shown in this window. If you click Update QSO in the bottom
> of this window it will fill in the ops first name, his state, county, and
> grid in the QSO window. When you set up this window right click on the
> window then select (tic on) Automatic update. Hope this helps
> >>
> >>Alan Zack
> >>Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From:  dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
> >>Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 08:23 AM
> >>To: UA3AGW Dmitry Zaslavsky < ua3agw at mail.ru >
> >>Cc: DX4WIN < dx4win at mailman.qth.net >
> >>Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Counties
> >>
> >>On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 1:59 PM UA3AGW Dmitry Zaslavsky wrote:
> >>
> >>> My LIfelong Dream for DX4WIN is — that SW automatically populates
> empty blanks with counties ( or at least — new counties) that I didn't
> manually enter based on the QSLs or QSOs made in State QSO Parties received
> which were not entered by myself manually based on QSLs reveived or QSOs in
> the County Parties.
> >>
> >>County hunting is a noble, if not difficult pursuit.  I have worked and
> confirmed all 3077 US Counties on both CW and SSB, but have never had time
> to submit for the USACA award.  Hopefully, I will have time when I retire.
> I am within 100 confirmations of 20 meters only.  I have over 2000 worked
> on digital, but I am not trying to confirm them.
> >>
> >>Regarding state QSO parties, if you logged them using a logging program
> that can output ADIF to import into DX4WIN, please look at this utility
> that I wrote:
> >>
> >>     https://ad1c.us/dx4win/adif2dxq/
> >>
> >>This will convert the county abbreviations to counties in DX4WIN.
> >>
> >>If you still have the state QSO party county abbreviations in your
> DX4WIN log, I could try to convert them for you, but it may take time to
> come up with the right program to do it.  Please contact me off the
> reflector.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Jim Reisert AD1C, < jjreisert at alum.mit.edu >,  https://ad1c.us
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Si reenvía este correo, es OBLIGACIÓN LEGAL según la "Agencia Española de
Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal" proteger la intimidad de sus
contactos, para ello y para evitar SPAM (correo no deseado) hay que seguir
los siguientes pasos:

1.- Borre la dirección del remitente y cualquier otra dirección que
aparezca en el cuerpo del mensaje.

2.- Introduzca los destinatarios en el apartado CCO (CON COPIA OCULTA)

Recuerde:

Para: Déjelo en blanco.

Ccc: Déjelo en blanco.

Cco: Incluya aquí a sus destinatarios.

Coloque esta nota en sus mensajes.

GRACIAS POR COLABORAR.