[WriteLog] ADI Callbook Question

[Bill Metzger]

Bill,

I received several responses and thought I'd respond to yours and the group.
Good comments from all.  Here is what I believe I've found based on the
leads.  For the ARRL RTTY RU, Writelog records a field titled <QTH:2>.  This
is the State exchanged during the contact.  DXBase expects the ADI format to
have <STATE> for the "state".  So, for this contest, your lead is perfect.
All I need to do is search and replace <QTH:2> with <STATE>.  It seems like
it would be easy for someone to modify the program itself to use STATE
instead of QTH:2.

I checked the recent WPX contest ADI file and while there were quite a few
contacts with US stations (several hundred actually), there is no field
recorded as <QTH:2> or any other field for that matter that records the
State since this is not the exchange required during the contest.  From a
contesting standpoint that makes sense.

So, while your editing suggestion would work fine for the RU it will not
work for a contest where the State is not an exchange.  In MixW or DXBase
2004 (as I'm sure in others), the program looks up in the Callbook
(installed on my hard drive) the name, address and other information for the
contact, including the State.  That data is then made part of the record
itself, even though the info may not be needed for a particular contest.

It looks like Writelog is strictly contesting software, but not intended to
follow DXCC or WAS needs.  Any other info would be great.  Writelog is a
great program in this regard, but seems to be inconvienent for WAS/DXCC.

Thanks for all the help, this is a great reflector and way for us all to
exchange information.  Any other comments are much appreciated.

bill
KF0OH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill, KE5OG" <ke5og at brooksdata.net>
To: "Bill Metzger" <wmetzger at earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] ADI Callbook Question


> Bill,
>
> Writelog does put the state in the <QTH:2> field. I don't use DXBase but I
> do use DX4Win and I experienced the same problem. I have a program that
> checks the adi file to make sure is complies with the DX4Win requirements
to
> put the state in the right field.
>
> You might look at the DXBase implementation of adi and see if you need to
> change the QTH field to state so DXBAse will know what it is. There are
> apparently different implementations of the adi "standard".
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> 73,
> Bill
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Metzger" <wmetzger at earthlink.net>
> To: <writelog at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:11 PM
> Subject: [WriteLog] ADI Callbook Question
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been using Writelog now for about 2 years.  After each contest
> ends,
> > I export the data to an ADI file and then import it into DXBase 2004
> > (previously 2003).  DXBase is my master log and allows combining
PSK/RTTY
> > contacts from MixW, SSB ragchew and casual contacts inputted directly
and
> > then finally contest contacts.  Contesting generates the majority of my
> > QSO's.
> >
> > Recently I generated a report to see where I stood on WAS, since in the
> ARRL
> > RTTY RU I had worked all but 2 States.  Surprisingly I found only a very
> few
> > States.  Looking into it further, I discovered that Writelog does not
> > identify the State for each QSO and thus does not put it into the ADI
> file.
> > Once I realized this, it was obvious since a callbook lookup is not set
up
> > in Writelog like MixW.
> >
> > I ended up looking up every record and manually inputting the State into
> > DXBase.  Quite a time consuming job.
> >
> > So my question is for all the Writelog "experts", is there a way to have
> > Writelog look these up and insert the State.  I can't find anything in
the
> > help file on this.  On the other hand, for those DXBase "experts", is
> there
> > a way to get DXBase to look each record up and insert the State.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Bill
> > KF0OH
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