[Dxbase] Import

[Peter Dougherty]

At 06:12 PM 12/13/2007, Ed K1EP wrote:
>Well, aside from the fact that I am jealous of your AK and HI 
>contacts in the 160 contest, there is a major difference between the 
>ARRL 10 and 160 contests.  The 10 uses states and the 160 uses 
>sections.  For the 160 to populate the state, it needs to translate 
>the section to state.  I don't think DxBase does that.  You can run 
>a program on your ADIF file to add the state field to each line 
>based on the section.  That would be a nice utility which could be 
>written in Perl or something like that.

You can use the DXB Utility along with a callbook-style CD-ROM lookup 
to populate the state fields (well, at least based on CD Data - no 
accounting for stations portable in another state for a contest). 
Make sure you save your database ahead of time, though, just in case!



Cheers,

Peter,
W2IRT