[Dx4win] Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files

[David Kozinn - K2DBK]

In addition to the couple of other problems mentioned, the city and 
state are often not enough to uniquely identify the actual location. 
As an example, there are 6 (maybe more?) municipalities in New Jersey 
named either Washington, Washington Township, Township of Washington, 
etc. Each of these are in a different county.

As a further issue, this past weekend I was operating mobile in 
upstate New York, and was able to hand out a new county (Cayuga, NY) 
to a friend who I was speaking to. Of course, my FCC license / 
QRZ.com entry shows that I'm in Bergen County, NJ, which of course I 
wasn't at the time.

Operating mobile seems like it could at least flag the entry to say 
that the default information may not be valid (put something in the 
QSO comments field?), perhaps if your program detected multiple names 
within the same state it could do something similar?

Good luck with your project.

73,
         David, K2DBK
At 03:53 AM 11/21/2006, Lee Hallin wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>   I'm new to the list so sorry if this has been asked before.
>
>   I am in the process of writing a program that looks up a 
> state,city combination and determines the county name.  Then I want 
> to update the DX4WIN .DXL file (directly or indirectly) with the 
> county.  I want to make sure I do it in a way that will allow 
> DX4WIN to"notice" that I added the County and alter any tables, 
> counters etc that it may maintain.
>
>Ideas I had to accomplish this task:
>
>   1) Do an Export to a .DXQ/.DXN file.  Modify the County field in 
> the .DXQ file and then re-Import the modified file.
>   2) Export in .ADIF format.  Fix the values and then re-import.
>   3) Modify the .DXL file directly.  If this is done, will County 
> totals/counts get updated?
>
>If anyone is interested in what I come up with, let me know and I'll 
>email you once I have something working.
>
>73,
>Lee  N7NU
>
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