[DogParkList] MacLoggerDX Import Problems

[Don Agro]

Hi Joe,

On Aug 14, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Joe Young wrote:

> Progress is slow here. I was able to have MacLoggerDx accept FT5ZG as 
> Amsterdam by changing the
> call to FT5ZG-A.

This is correct - it's an alternate DXCC ID for that call. The default 
for FT5ZG is Crozet, alternate ID's are '-K' for Kerguelen Island and 
"-A" for Amsterdam & St Paul Island.

> In the case of 4K1A (Antarctica) I had to change the call to 4K1A/CE9. 
> Is this the way
> I am supposed to be doing this?

4K1A was a soviet (Azerbaijan) Antarctic Base in Antarctica 
(Molodezhnaya).
It should probably be in the dxpeditions.dat file but they haven't been 
in operation there since 1992 have they ?
<http://hamgallery.com/qsl/country/Antarctica/4k1a4.htm>

> I have 30 other countries that need to be corrected so as to be 
> accepted with the proper credit.

I suspect that most of the 30 are ambiguous calls that can be 
'corrected' by specifying the correct alternate ID suffix.
The suffixes are striped on export to ADIF so as not to confuse eQSL or 
LotW.

> I manually entered a few IOTA QSO'S and had no problem. On the 
> imported QSO's,
> I checked the DXCC ID number in the ADIF file being imported and it 
> was correct (4K1A was 13) but was imported
> as  AZERBIAJAN (18).

Most calls can  be resolved algorithmically to a DXCC identity. Some 
are ambiguous and require the use of a suffix to select from the red 
hi-lighted alternate ID's, and some are special issue calls - obeying 
no special call logic and are resolved in dxpeditions.dat which is 
updated live over the internet.

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73 Don Agro VE3VRW

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