Correct DXCC detection ? Clublog API ?

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Hi Thomas,

Erik is doing an excellent job to keep the country table updated by adding current and past Dxpeditions so that Swisslog recognises most DXCC. You know this is a very huge task! Unfortunately there are some entities that now are not possible to know the exact DXCC by its callsign as could be done previously  (i.e.: VK9 callsigns) and Swisslog can't automatically recognise many callsigns unless the country table is updated (or if user knows the right DXCC simply has to manually selects the right DXCC abbreviation in the DXCC field when adding the QSO).

Clublog is excellent because it gives you a full report of invalid DXCC entries! everyuser has to keep his log updated and when this report is received the best thing to do is to edit every reported QSO and change the DXCC abbreviation to the correct one. This way user will keep updated the DXCC statistic in Swisslog and next time QSO are uploaded into Clublog user won't get any errors regarding DXCC assignments. I always try to avoid manual user actions but some times is not possible to automatise everything!

I'm planning to add some implementation in the future to link with Clublog (for instance the possibility to save the QSO in Clublog at the same time you save QSO in Swisslog). As you probably know I'm not the original programmer. Walter had an accident years ago and he has lost all his programming skills. Since one year ago I'm involved in the programming tasks of Swisslog. But I'm not a professional programmer! I'm doing the best I know trying to learn as much as possible of Delphi language and above all the internal structure of Swisslog. It's a really huge program with more than 1100000 lines of code and I find many difficults to implement things. Every programmer has his own way to structure and write code and Walter was a genious!! Unfortunately I don't have (by far!) his programming skills but I'm doing the best I know. I have learned a lot during this year but I have my own limitations. If you know a way to make an online check in Clublog for DXCC maybe I could implement this feature in future versions. It would be very interesting!! I know how to make an online query to a website via GET/POST Http method to retrieve informations and check with the Swisslog database. In fact the next version which I will be releasing in a few days implements that kind of online queries to check if a station is LOTW/eQSL user and many club memberships as EPC, DMC, DIG, TEN TEN, etc. So if you know a method to make an online DXCC check in Clublog I will really appreciate your help!

Best 73