There are several option in TRADIF so you may choose the column for the
exchange. I use mostly the Notes column for exchanges, you don't need to
mess up the Name column.
Anyway let me know if you have problems. I can probably change anything to
meet the needs.
73 Martin, OK1RR
ok1rr@qsl.net
http://www.qsl.net/ok1rr
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ferch" <ve3iay@rac.ca>
To: <trlog@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:37 AM
Subject: [Trlog] ADIF Conversion program
> On Thu Jul 10 at 16:37:57 EDT 2003,
> Dick Stepanian <w6tk at juno.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> > Looking for some help on a conversion program. I hope to play,
> > as time permits, in IARU coming up. But need an ADIF conversion program
> > to import log after the contest into Logger32.
> >
> > I tried to convert TR file - both ASCII and Cabrillo as well as
> > original log files - after Field Day into ADIF file and import into
> > Logger32. It didn't accept it. Needed "playing" with to get it there.
> >
> > Hoping there is a better conversion program out there to ease the
> > transition process.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dick- W6TK
>
> OK, Dick, I'll bite. What conversion program or method were you using? As
> far as I can tell, Logger32 only imports ADIF format, and neither TRLog
nor
> POST can produce an ADIF file directly, so there was probably some other
> software involved.
>
> I started my testing with LogConv (http://www.qsl.net/ka5wss/logconv/).
>
> I ran this on an old TRLog log.dat file for Field Day and tried to import
> the resulting ADIF file into Logger32. Logger32 didn't like it because
there
> was no rst_rcvd field (no rst_sent field either). I had to edit
> <rst_rcvd:3>599 <rst_sent:3>599 into the ADIF file to make it acceptable
to
> Logger32. I would guess that NAQP, NA Sprint and SS files would have the
> same problem.
>
> On the other hand, when I ran LogConv on last year's IARU log.dat file,
> Logger32 was happy with the ADIF file LogConv produced, so for IARU,
LogConv
> should be fine.
>
> Next, TRADIF (http://www.qsl.net/ok1rr/softnav.html). I ran this on both
the
> Field Day log.dat and the IARU log.dat. Logger32 accepted both ADIF files
> first time around. Actually, there is a problem with the Field Day log,
> though. TRADIF's standard conversion option puts the received exchange
into
> the rst_rcvd field, which is almost certainly not what you want. The IARU
> ADIF file looked better to me, but note that it put the exchange for HQ
> stations into the name field instead of the comment field, which might be
a
> problem.
>
> Cabrillo files: The first thing to beware of is that Field Day appears to
be
> one of the contests that POST doesn't produce a good Cabrillo file for. If
> you look in the Cabrillo file, there is no sent exchange. You can either
> edit the received exchange in by hand using WordPad, or you can use WT4I's
> Cabrillo Converter (http://www.wt4i.com/) to put the sent exchange into
the
> Cabrillo file.
>
> Cabrillo Converter doesn't seem to like TRLog log.dat files, because there
> is no space between the band and mode. However, it does a good job of
> "fixing up" the pseudo-Cabrillo files that POST produces for contests that
> aren't on the official Cabrillo list, and it seems to work fine on
> ARRL-format log files from POST /L /A. For IARU, all that is academic,
> because POST produces a perfectly good Cabrillo file for IARU.
>
> You still have to get the Cabrillo file into ADIF, of course. I'm not sure
> what you used for this. LogConv can output to Cabrillo, but as far as I
know
> it cannot read Cabrillo files.
>
> I used my own CBR2ADIF program (http://www.storm.ca/~ve3iay/cbr2adif.html)
> on both the fixed-up Field Day pseudo-Cabrillo file and the IARU Cabrillo
> file, and Logger32 accepted both ADIF files. Note that CBR2ADIF puts
> rst_rcvd and rst_sent fields into the ADIF file even if the contest
exchange
> doesn't include signal reports.
>
> So, there seem to be at least three options for you for the upcoming IARU:
>
> 1. Use LogConv on your log.dat file;
> 2. Use TRADIF on your log.dat file; or
> 3. Use CBR2ADIF on your Cabrillo file (from POST).
>
> Does this help?
>
> 73,
> Rich VE3IAY
>
>
>
>
>
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