Hi, Paul and the group.
I just noticed an unusual problem while importing LotW QSOs into the
log. When a Russian station has its Oblast set in the LotW QSO details
that matches an abbreviation of a US state, the state flag for that
particular QSO in DX4Win gets changed from blank to the state matching
the abbreviation and, in addition, the zone of the station changes to
the zone matching the state.
For example: RX3APM lists its Oblast as Moscow (abbreviation MA). DX4Win
imports this QSO ADIF field as State (see below), then promptly updates
the QSO with the Massachusetts entry in the state field and changes the
zone from 16 to 5.
This seems to happen for all Oblast abbreviations that correspond to the
US state abbreviations, like MO for Moscow Region, OR for Orel, MA for
Moscow, etc. When the abbreviation for an Oblast does not match any US
states (such as PK for Primorsk), it is ignored and no change is made to
the QSO. Furthermore, this occurs when the "Include QSL detail" box is
checked before downloading the report. The DX4Win Import setting of
"Show QSO information and ask" does not apply here because it seems to
check only for prefix and zone differences.
Is anyone aware of this problem or is there something I'm missing in the
import procedure? My version is 8.05 and I use LotW -> Import from LotW
to import, not Import/Export option. Before you say it, yes, I am aware
that importing just basic ADIF data from LotW (i.e. no station details
like Oblast, Grid, IOTA, etc) would not cause that problem, but that is
not a solution.
Please let me know if this is on a radar and what the fix would be.
Thanks,
Zoran WA7AA
==================== Here's the ADIF entry for this example
===================
<APP_LoTW_OWNCALL:5>WA7AA
<STATION_CALLSIGN:5>WA7AA
<CALL:6>RX3APM
<BAND:3>40M
<FREQ:7>7.02304
<MODE:2>CW
<APP_LoTW_MODEGROUP:2>CW
<QSO_DATE:8>20101128
<TIME_ON:6>002112
<QSL_RCVD:1>Y
<QSLRDATE:8>20110114
<DXCC:2>54
<COUNTRY:15>EUROPEAN RUSSIA
<APP_LoTW_DXCC_ENTITY_STATUS:7>Current
<PFX:3>RX3
<APP_LoTW_2xQSL:1>Y
<CQZ:2>16
<ITUZ:2>29
<STATE:2>MA
<eor>
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