Bill, You continue to be plagued by invalid data from the LoTW system or from invalid data being submitted by the DX station. The ADIF specification for IOTA is very specific and the LoTW process is violating this requirement. Therefore, the IOTA data is being ignored during import from LoTW because it does not pass the validation for this field. Listed below is the rule for IOTA data in an ADIF format:
HYPHEN MUST BE INCLUDED. Example: NA-001 IOTA PROVIDES DISK IN THIS FORMAT Please direct your import issues involving "bad" data to the LoTW folks or to the originator of the bad data so that they may address the problems that their lack of validations will cause. Regards, Courtney ----- Original Message ----- From: "William H. Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'DXbase Reflector'" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 11:32 AM Subject: [Dxbase] Importing LoTW IOTA data > I am continuing to sift thru the QSL info I've downloaded from LoTW. In > this particular case, the IOTA data in the LoTW QSO Detail (reproduced > below) does not seem to have updated my blank IOTA field in Dxbase. > Curiously, the grid square data was imported from LoTW into Dxbase > correctly. > > I am using Dxbase 2005. > > 73, > Bill NT1Y > Topsham VT > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Station > Call Sign AA6TT > DXCC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > CQ Zone 4 > ITU Zone 7 > Grid DM67 > State CO > County LA PLATA > > Worked Station > Worked VP8GAV > DXCC ANTARCTICA (13) > CQ Zone 13 > ITU Zone 67 > IOTA AN006 > Grid FC74QP > Date/Time 1992-12-11 01:06:00 > Mode CW (CW) > Band 17M > Frequency 18.00000 > QSL 2003-11-11 22:00:06 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Record ID 3936863 Received: 2003-09-26 17:11:29 > > > _______________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >
