Jim,
I agree that it is NOT a trivial matter to write a callsign to country
parser. But I do NOT think you need to do so in order to create a proper
ADIF file.
When exporting the data from a CT .BIN file into an ADIF File, C2A.EXE
should examine each record for each QSO in the .BIN file, check for
abbreviations for Canadian Provinces and place these abbreviations in the
Canadian field of the ADIF file NOT the US state field. C2A does NOT need
to check the prefix of the callsign and determine that it is a Canadian
callsign.
e.g Anytime C2A sees BC it should place it in the Canadian Province field
of the ADIF file NOT the US state field (regardless of the callsign). I
don't think that the code to do this would be that difficult.
If LOGCONV converts a CT .BIN file correctly into an ADIF file, I would
think it would use such a technique. I doubt LOGCONV would use a callsign
to country parser program for the reasons you mentioned.
73's
Rob
>From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
>Reply-To: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
>To: "Rob Kennedy" <amtor@hotmail.com>, <CT-USER@contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [ct-user] Bug in C2A.EXE?
To: <ct-user@contesting.com>
>Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:53:19 -0500
>
>
>At 06:20 PM 3/9/00 -0500, Rob Kennedy wrote:
>
>>Unlike some other Logging programs, Logger actually checks the
>>contents of
>>the State field in the ADIF file when importing the ADIF file into
>>Logger.
>>If the state field does NOT contain a valid abbreviation for a US
>>state, the
>>record is rejected and it is not imported into Logger. The
>>rejected records
>>are placed in a file called BAD.ADI.
>
>My point was that the importing program (logger in this example) can
>parse
>the callsign FIRST to determine the country, then if it is NOT USA,
>it can
>ignore the STATE field. This is easy for a logging program to do.
>It is
>hard for C2A to do because the country information is not stored in
>the
>.BIN file, and C2A does not contain a callsign parser.
>
>My other point was that other logging programs seem to have no
>problem with
>this. It's a trivial amount of code for you (or anyone) to write.
>It's a
>NON-TRIVIAL amount of code to write a callsign to country parser.
>
>73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
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