Neal,
I responded to you last night (to your Gmail address) with
instructions on how to download the file from my server. Did you not
receive that email? You responded below to the first email I sent to
the Reflector and not to the email I sent direct to your Gmail so I'm
wondering if you saw that email?
I will re-send the email to your Gmail now, in case it got lost.
If you can't download from my server, you can download Logger32
(http://www.logger32.net/) and install it and ARRL Scraper will be in
the Logger32 directory.
73, Clark, W8TN
On 5/14/2014 5:13 PM, Neal Campbell wrote:
Clark
I could not figure out how to download the scraper, any ideas where i
need to go?
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal LLC
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Clark L. Stewart <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Jim,
I am also an "Old Timer" and my DXCC records look just as you
described. However, since I have migrated to using Logger32 as my
logging program, I find there is a solution to updating your
logger records to those of the ARRL.
The first solution I used (in 2011) was a program written by
Marek, SP7DQR. It was called "LoTW to Logger32 v 1.0.1" and it
would read your DXCC records from LoTW and automatically update
those (which it could find the Date and Time for) with the
corresponding records in Logger32. When I ran this it updated
2,065 QSO's as "Granted" by ARRL but gave me 211 QSO's it could
not match. Those I had to do by hand.
Logger32 has now added a stand-alone program called "ARRL
Scraper" which does the same thing. Here is a link to the Help
file describing that process:
http://www.logger32.net/help/Logger32/arrl%20scraper.htm
I have used the ARRL Scraper program for another ham and it
worked similarly to SP7DQR's program. That is, about 90% of the
QSO's were able to be automatically updated to "Granted" status
and the remainder had to be done manually.
Some of my DXCC records would look like this:
Callsign Date Band Mode ADIF # QSL/LoTW
381 19451115 UNKNO SSB 381 QSL
Without even a callsign and an obviously wrong date (I wasn't
born until 1948!), it is very hard to find that QSO. The 381 in
the Callsign field is just the ADIF number for that country (9V,
Singapore) so you could search for that country and try to figure
out which one had been submitted to ARRL. However, the lack of a
"Band" on that ARRL Credit meant that I needed to find those QSL's
and submit them again to ARRL to get credit for Singapore on
whatever band it was. Without the Band credit, I had no credit on
the Challenge Award for that QSO/QSL.
So, there is a solution (sort of) that can give you "Granted"
status of approximately 90% of your DXCC records (more or less
depending on how long you have been a DX'er.) I thought I would
supply this information so that Joe or Neal would be aware of the
possibility of doing at least part of this in an automated way. I
think the ARRL Scraper program just matches those that it can and
then dumps out a list of those that it could not match and you
need to do those manually.
If no one writes such a program for DXbase, you could import
your log into Logger32, run this ARRL Scraper program, update your
log with the "Granted" status, and export it from Logger32 to be
imported into DXbase.
73, Clark, W8TN
On 5/13/2014 12:32 PM, Jim Spears wrote:
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
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