Alan, The Diamond Challenge had a means to import an ADIF file to populate the spreadsheet, but when I tried it last Fall, it did not work properly. You might try it, to see if they got it fixed. If you can't find the link, maybe they gave up on the implementation and removed it. (?) It's a little painful, but I just did it by hand. Oddly, when you enter the data by hand, less information is required.
The Challenge Award on your DXCC awards page is a completely separate award. It is based on your number of "band-countries". You need 1000 points to qualify. You are getting close, keep DXing! :-) 73, Jim - N4ST -----Original Message----- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of ALAN ZACK Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 03:31 To: 'Jim Reisert AD1C'; 'DX4WIN Reflector' Cc: Violette, Daniel R Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ARRL Diamond DXCC Challenge 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-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@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 -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
