Installed DX4Win.updater and all set! On 6 October 2014 22:42, <dx4win-requ...@mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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Fwd: IOTA file upgrade (Luis Teixeira) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 09:49:16 -0700 > From: "ALAN ZACK" <k7...@cox.net> > To: "'Dwayne'" <8...@telus.net>, "'John 5B4AHK'" > <5b4...@cytanet.com.cy>, "'Rick Murphy'" <k...@arrl.net> > Cc: 'DX4WIN Reflector' <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ADIF > Message-ID: <003e01cfdff3$2267aae0$673700a0$@net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dwayne, > > I would highly recommend you go to: > http://dx4win.ad1c.us/appnotes/lotw.html > and follow Jim, AD1C's excellent instructions for downloading your DX4WIN > log entries to LOTW. If you have not done so in the past I suppose you > could > download your complete log. But remember the contacts you will be > converting > to an ADIF file then entering into LOTW will depend on what you have > selected in the little LoTW box on the full main window of DX4WIN. If Y > then > that QSO will be added, if N then it won't. > > The DXL file is your saved QSO's in the log. It is NOT used for creating > the > LOTW files. If you mess up the DXL file and have not saved a copy in a safe > place then your previous log entries will be corrupted or lost and gone > forever. As a bare minimum you should go to the main FILE menu, select > PREFERENCES, open the QSO tab, and assign a safe place in the SECONDARY > BACKUP DIR box. I use an ext HD for this. But whenever I am going to > perform > some function such as doing an update using Jim's > http://dx4win.ad1c.us/updater/index.html sub program, or entering a > contest > ADIF file into DX4WIN, or doing a LOTW download, etc, I also save my DXL > file to a thumb drive. I save the DXL file to a thumb drive quite > frequently. It is very easy to do. Plug your thumb drive into a USB port. A > little window will open asking if you wish to look at the files on the > thumb > drive. Use this window to identify the drive number your PC has assigned to > the thumb drive (D: E: M: etc), then you can close the little window. Then > in DX4WIN go to FILE and select SAVE AS. A widow will open showing your DXL > file (ve6qx.dxl). Using your mouse right click on this DXL file. Another > small window will open. Then select SENT TO: and select the thumb drive and > COPY. If you already have a DXL file on the thumb drive you can tell it to > copy and replace or copy and keep both files (the last one you previously > saved and the current one). Your DXL file is now safe on your thumb drive. > It just takes four quick clicks and after you do it a couple of times it > will just take you a second to do it. > > One last thought. Once you have uploaded your ADIF file to LOTW and after > it > is processed you can get your report back from LOTW showing what QSO's you > have matches with and additional info about them (state, county, zone, > grid, > etc). This is under Jim's instruction: Downloading the confirmations from > ARRL. You will get a report back from LOTW with the same ID you used to > upload your ADIF file. For example, say I uploaded my latest upload file I > named LOTW_10012014.adi (This is the date of the upload). I will get back > from LOTW the report file named LOTWREPORT10012014.adi. DO NOT MIX UP THESE > TWO FILES!!!! The very first time I did the LOTW upload I accidently used > my > upload file (example LOTW_10012014.adi) as the report file and uploaded it > back into DX4WIN. When I checked my log I noticed everyone of my QSO's > showed confirmed by LOTW but none of them showed the extra info (state, > county, zone, etc) I expected to see. Then I realized what I had done. I > had > saved my DXL file to the thumb drive after doing the upload to LOTW. So I > replaced my now corrupted DXL file with the known good one and then > uploaded > the correct LOTWREPORT10012014.adi to DX4WIN and all was well. Had I not > saved my DXL file along every step of the way I would have been in BIG > trouble. So be careful to not mix up the file you send to LOTW with the > report file that they send back to you. They will have the same name except > the report will have REPORT as part of its name and will have a later > date/time. They appear very similar and if you are not careful they can get > mixed up. > > Good luck > Alan, K7ACZ > > -----Original Message----- > From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dwayne > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 10:11 AM > To: John 5B4AHK; Rick Murphy > Cc: DX4WIN Reflector > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ADIF > > Dwayne here (ve6qx)..... I think I got it ??? I had two diff. logs saved > in > the save folder of Dx4win, so I renamed one of them.. Now there is just > one > > named Ve6qx.DXL ... The other one was ve6qx bug.DXL which is renamed to > just Bug.. Ok that just leaves one with ve6qx which is the log I want to > make a ADIF for arrl es TQSL.. So that should make things easier ???? > No prob. if you guys are getting big headache,, I understand.... > We are getting closer, I think I can see the light at the end of the > tunnel > Dwayne Ve6qx > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John 5B4AHK" <5b4...@cytanet.com.cy> > To: "Rick Murphy" <k...@arrl.net> > Cc: "Dwayne" <8...@telus.net>; "DX4WIN Reflector" <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:48 PM > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ADIF > > > Hi Dwayne > Agree with all said so far, just don't write a file extension name .dxl or > .adf etc, ONLY the name of the file and the program will create an ADIF > file > for uploading > > > > 73 John 5B4AHK. P3M. G3SZG. > > On 03 Oct 2014, at 01:14, Rick Murphy <k...@arrl.net> wrote: > > Dwayne, > > LoTW menu. Export to LoTW. > You should then get a file selector window with "Select the ADIF file to > write to". > Choose a name like "VE6QX-October-2-2014". That will give you an ADIF file > that you can sign with TQSL. > > It sounds like you're saving the log records to VE6QX.DXL, which is a very > bad idea as it will over-write your log. > 73, > -RIck > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Dwayne <8...@telus.net> wrote: > > > > Tnx very much everyone for responding... When I click on LOTW in my > > Dx4win 804 prog. a window pops up showing save and I try to write in > > area the file Ve6qx.DXL which is the main file I want to send to LOTW > > in ADIF.. > > I ad the month and year plus the number 1 and it won't let me do it... > > > > I need a better education on computers.. And I thought learning the > > regs/theory/ CW was hard... Tnx again Dwayne > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" < > > jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> > > To: "Dwayne" <8...@telus.net> > > Cc: "DX4WIN Reflector" <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 2:20 PM > > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ADIF > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dwayne VE6QX wrote: > > > > When Iam in Dx4win and click on Lotw, it asks me to select a file,I > >> select the file from the 'save' in Dx4win.. Ok so then it asks if I > >> want to rewrite this file and I say no because I want to keep the > >> original file in the save dir. so I can continue to add to it.. Iam > >> afraid of screwing up the original file in my program... And it won't > >> let me rename this file so that it can be a new file..... > > > > Duane, I'm a little confused here. > > > > Your DX4WIN log file has a ".DXL" file extension. This is the file > > you do not want to over-write (unless you are re-saving your log). An > > exported ADIF file will have a ".ADI" file extension. When you try to > > save the exported ADIF file, just type a unique name into the "File > > name:" field in the "Save As" window. That name will automatically > > have the .ADI extension appended onto it when you save the file. > > > > Then remember this name, because you will need it for whatever program > > into which you are importing it. > > > > Does this make sense? > > > > 73 - Jim AD1C > > > > -- > > Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us > > ______________________________________________________________ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 09:02:29 +0100 > From: Luis Teixeira <xx9...@gmail.com> > To: DX4WIN Reflector <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > Subject: [Dx4win] IOTA file upgrade > Message-ID: > < > cajtgpzyod4ghpe2l5g_cqgtbt671kchqtv659zrvnk4_ar5...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I've noticed that my version 8.05 is not recognizing new IOTA groups > (introduced lately), as an example AS-201 (TA0MI) , so could you be so kind > and let me know where I can download the correct file to upgrade? > > Thanks de Luis, CT4NH > -- > > *Luis Sutil Teixeira* > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 07:41:23 -0600 > From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> > To: Luis Teixeira <xx9...@gmail.com> > Cc: DX4WIN Reflector <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] IOTA file upgrade > Message-ID: > < > cak-n8j4o6tbqfu4qdlxxo12cxeyck1ykpze0bcjkvw0-efd...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Luis Teixeira <xx9...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've noticed that my version 8.05 is not recognizing new IOTA groups > > (introduced lately), as an example AS-201 (TA0MI) , so could you be so > kind > > and let me know where I can download the correct file to upgrade? > > DX4WIN Country File and the IOTA database fulllist.xml. This is the > easiest way to stay up-to-date: > > http://dx4win.ad1c.us/updater/ > > -- > Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:27:25 +0100 > From: Luis Teixeira <xx9...@gmail.com> > To: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> > Cc: DX4WIN Reflector <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] IOTA file upgrade > Message-ID: > <CAJtGpzZ2nsofau_RejftVy0auWGj9wBkGwje3f+KgLYR_= > t...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Tnx Jim. > > Best 73 de Luis, CT4NH > > On 6 October 2014 14:41, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Luis Teixeira <xx9...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I've noticed that my version 8.05 is not recognizing new IOTA groups > > > (introduced lately), as an example AS-201 (TA0MI) , so could you be so > > kind > > > and let me know where I can download the correct file to upgrade? > > > > DX4WIN Country File and the IOTA database fulllist.xml. This is the > > easiest way to stay up-to-date: > > > > http://dx4win.ad1c.us/updater/ > > > > -- > > Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us > > > > > > -- > > *Luis Sutil Teixeira* > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 22:42:21 +0100 > From: Luis Teixeira <xx9...@gmail.com> > To: DX4WIN Reflector <dx4win@mailman.qth.net>, Jim Reisert > <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> > Cc: "CT1EGW, Arlindo Ferreira" <ct1...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Dx4win] Fwd: IOTA file upgrade > Message-ID: > < > cajtgpzyuzski4hw29qle6ew8c94grqncrvzn4llkzoecppy...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Returning to this subject, today I've worked AS-201 (Marmara Isl.) and > despite the little window showing 'AS201 Sea of Marmara Islands (TA)', in > the mainwindow / IOTA Island, nothing is shown. Is this due to the fact > that my fulllist.xml is not updated (mine from 23-07-2013). > My DX4WIN.CTY is updated (06-10-2014). > > > Luis,CT4NH > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Luis Teixeira <xx9...@gmail.com> > Date: 6 October 2014 15:27 > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] IOTA file upgrade > To: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> > Cc: DX4WIN Reflector <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > > > Tnx Jim. > > Best 73 de Luis, CT4NH > > On 6 October 2014 14:41, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Luis Teixeira <xx9...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I've noticed that my version 8.05 is not recognizing new IOTA groups > > > (introduced lately), as an example AS-201 (TA0MI) , so could you be so > > kind > > > and let me know where I can download the correct file to upgrade? > > > > DX4WIN Country File and the IOTA database fulllist.xml. This is the > > easiest way to stay up-to-date: > > > > http://dx4win.ad1c.us/updater/ > > > > -- > > Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us > > > > > > -- > > *Luis Sutil Teixeira* > > > > -- > > *Luis Sutil Teixeira* > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > DX4WIN mailing list > DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > > > ------------------------------ > > End of DX4WIN Digest, Vol 126, Issue 5 > ************************************** > -- *Luis Sutil Teixeira* ______________________________________________________________ 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
