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For more information about the ARRL’s Logbook of the World, please visit the ARRL web site. Logbook of the World Features In support of the American Radio Relay League’s Logbook of the World system, DXbase provides many convenient features: 1. The CFM field in the log allows you to indicate whether a card was received, whether an LOTW confirmation exists, or both. 2. The QSLS field in the log allows you to indicate whether a card was sent, an LOTW submission was made, or both. 3. The DXbase Wizard allows you to filter records based on the LOTW status of the CFM and QSLS fields. 4. Awards modules allow you to compute an award based on LOTW confirmations, QSL card submissions, or both. 5. When using the DXbase Wizard to export to ADIF, you can specify if you want to have the QSLS field for the LOTW automatically marked to show that the record was submitted to the ARRL’s LOTW database. 6. The Previous QSO module allows for a one button click to mark a QSO confirmed for LOTW. Logbook of the World ADIF Imports An ADIF file obtained from LoTW must be processed differently than a standard ADIF file. This is because normally when we refer to importing we intend to read in brand new records. But with LoTW, we actually want to read existing records and make updates to them, such as updating the LoTW confirmation field. DXbase provides this capability in the Non DXB Import utility program that was installed with DXbase. Use the program group and select Non DXB Import from the DXbase group. But, be sure you close DXbase first. In the Non DXB Import utility there is an import choice for an LoTW ADIF file. Use this option whenever you are importing an ADIF file obtained from LoTW. DXbase will first try to find the 331
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