Rick thank you so much for writing a an "add comment" program just for me!
It's ready to go fot the next contest. Some comments on this whole issue. I just started to play with group name and for the first time ever managed to crash DX4Win. Also it seems that the little QSO's for this call window has a place for "Groupname" but from reading the documentation it seems that what displays there is the group number, not the name, unless you play with the right mouse button. Really I want to see at a glance what the contest or other activity was which is why I like having that in the Notes field. The other comment is I have been in the habit of importing a TRLog log directly into a new Win4Lin file name instead of converting the file to ADIF first. I do this to massage the new file - especially to add QSL managers if they exist. Onr problem with ADIF'ing this file for import into the main log is ADIF will not handle QSL managers - a real difficiency IMO. I guess it would be possible to first convert TRLog into ADIF, add the comment with your program, then import into a new DX4Win for massage. This works only because TRLog _at present_ has no provision for QSL managers. You can see why I'm a little of the ADIF step. My shack is well separated from the house where I do qsling etc. So I am in the habit of making frequent ADIF files for the last few days, then importing into the house log file over the network. This works ok but imagine my surprise a month or so ago when I suddenly realized that when I heard the DX say "QSL via" and then entered this info into the QSL manager it was effectively lost in the ADIF process! Now I make sure to put the stated QSL manager into the Notes field. Again thanks much Rick for easing the pain. Paul I _still_ would very much like to see a way to "mass add" comments. Larry Alkoff N2LA On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 07:16:32 -0800, Rick Commo wrote: >> ADIFComment.exe is a program that will add a COMMENT field to all the QSOs >> in an ADIF file destined to be imported into DX4Win. In my case this >> would be from WriteLog. >> >> It is a quick and dirty file that I wrote in an hour after reading the >> thread in this reflector where the poster lamented having to post a string >> containing the name of the contest into "Notes for this QSO" field of a >> LOT of QSOs. The COMMENT field in an ADIF file goes into the "Notes for >> this QSO" field in DX4Win. >> >> A couple of replies pointed out that he could import a contest as a group, >> but I felt that marking them made sense too. I KNOW that if did it by >> putting a contest in as a group that I would certainly lose the piece of >> paper that had the map of which group was what contest! So I wrote this >> program. If you are interested in it then point your browser at URL: >> ftp://k7log.no-ip.org/ADIFComment.zip. >> >> The ZIP file contains a ReadMe, the program, the source code and some test >> ADI file that I picked up from the ADIF Web site. >> >> I have imported some trivial ADI files into DX4Win with no problems, but >> you should back up your log before you try it for the first time. >> >> One important caveat should be noted. If any QSO in an ADIF file already >> have a comment field to start with then that QSO will end up with two >> comment fields and DX4Win will join them together in the order in which >> they are encountered. >> >> 73s, >> -ricK7log > > Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
