Thank you. You saved me from having to explain it to the newbies.
Wes N7WS
On 5/13/2014 9:32 AM, 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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