Virginia has a LOT of independent cities - 42 if my count is correct. However, adding a county called "Independent City" would likely louse up a county count and thus might do more harm than good. Assuming the purpose of entering county info is for USA-CA purposes, a friend of mine who is a CQ card checker tells me that their rules ask you to pick an adjoining county (once) for crediting an independent city. Thus perhaps the best procedure would be to assign the selected adjacent county, and perhaps make comments in the "note for call" field of the Independent City. However, for the Virginia QSO Party (of which I am a committee member) all counties and independent cities are multipliers, but that's another story. 73, Dick, W2YE From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 7 21:59:55 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Giacobello) Date: Thu Oct 7 22:08:33 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] Another EXT DATA Mystery Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Back a few weeks ago, I was having problems accessing the QRZ data base on my hard drive until several pointed out that the data directory (CALLBK) should be in the root directory (C:\). That change solved all my problems. However, I was using the W-98SE operating system. I recently had to press my laptop into service in the shack while I'm upgrading my desktop. The laptop uses Windows XP. When I do precisely the same thing on the laptop as I did on the desktop, DX4WIN reports an error and says there's no QRZ32.DLL in the EXT DATA directory. (Also, when I go back to the EXT DATA setup menu, the DATA Source has reverted to "none" from the "QRZ CD.") When I check the EXT DATA directory there is indeed a QRZ32.DLL file there. I have even updated it to the latest version from the CD and also tried putting it into the CALLBK directory on C:\. DX4WIN just doesn't see it no matter where it is. I've also tried a variety of other setups without success. I should also add that I can't get DX4WIN to access data directly from the QRZ or RAC CD ROM either. The F3 command does put the call into the DX4WIN EXT DATA window, but no data is obtained. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here. It seems to be associated with W-XP. All works well with W-98SE. 73, Joe From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 8 07:41:55 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Reisert AD1C) Date: Fri Oct 8 07:49:38 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] also interested in importing counties In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have written the first version (0.1) of the program. It supports TX and CA QSO parties, and only supports Writelog (<CNTY:>) and NA (<comment:>) formats. You can try it by going to: http://www.ad1c.com/dx4win/ and following the link at the top of the page. This program should work in both DOS and Windows. If your ADIF received county field is not supported, send me your .ADIF file as an attachment and I'll add support for it. If you want any other QSO parties supported, let me know. It's not much work to add them now. Note: I have not tried this program with mixed counties and states (i.e. CAQP from CA side). Try it and see. County lines are NOT supported yet (i.e. IL, IN QSO parties). That should not be too difficult to add if there is interest. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC