Clark My apologies!
I didn't get the message and installed Logger32 but didn't look in the program directory for some reason! I have it, thanks so much for the heads up! 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal LLC On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Clark L. Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: >> http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Dxbase mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
