Hi Everyone, I entered 12 ARRL style log books in the the computer a couple of years ago, along with many contest logs. I started with Fast Log Entry by DF3CB but found the problem of the contacts not being valid after importing them in to DXbase. Stokley W3SB told me about adding DXBVAL=3 to each log entry in the ADIF file before importing to DXbase. I also tried his spreadsheet. Both of these methods worked but I found an new problem with my early logs, they are in local time. So I had to fix that too. I ended up writing my own program. It works similar to the program by DF3CB. My programming skills are old and so it my compiler, so the program only works in a command window. To run it you have to type the program name following by an input text file name and two output file names. My program adds the DXBVAL=3 to each contact. It will also fix the time and date for my local time logs. I put a zip file of it on the DXbase files area for this group. See LogConv Zip.zip. I also put a statistics program there. Look for Stats zip.zip. The Statistics program will read an ADIF file and generate many statistics. Both programs work on 32 windows XP. I tried them on a 64 bit windows 7 system but they did not run there. If you know how to run a 32 bit program on a 64 bit system they may work.
The text to ADIF program also generates a text file that can be compared to the original paper log. I started out by entering a whole log book in to the computer then comparing the text file to the original log. I found fixing all my typing errors was very time consuming. It was far better to type very carefully and reduce the number of errors to be corrected. The program will look and generate an error for times greater than 2359, or months with 32 days. Invalid calls with no number. It also expects all dates and time to move forward. It will generate a warning if the date or time moves backwards. The warnings are not in the adif file only the output text file so they can be ignored if you know the date and times are correct. Tom, N4TL ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
