One detail that it appears that folks are missing is that there are essentially two distinct periods in DXCC history. For many years, qso information was not recorded for credit to one's CW, PHONE, MIXED, or RTTY standing. DXCC records were manually kept. So one could have DXCC credit for various entities including mode but nothing else.
Somewhere along the way, the records were converted to a database of some sort but information that had not been previously recorded was not added since it was not present. Additionally, single band awards were added. When I look at my present LoTW data, there are some entities that I have MIXED, CW -and/or PHONE - credit for but no call sign and no qso information. Only the fact that I was given credit for the entity at some point in the past. FT8Z is an example, I have credit for the entity and mode=PHONE but no call sign and no qso information. This will get updated real soon as my FT8ZR confirmations showed up in my LoTW account this morning. IMHO it is for this reason (perhaps among others) that N7WS's request to populate the DXbase Award field cannot be automated. And this explains why some of the example adi records look as they do. This should not apply to folks who started DXCC after the record keeping was automated. But in this case, I am unable to figure out a method to extract only the qsos that were awarded for a DXCC mode/band/entity entry. I have often wanted to do the same thing as N7WS but have only been able to see that doing it manually is the only way. This is more trouble than I want to go to. Old Timer Jim/N1NK ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
