[NA-User] [CQ-Contest] Question for NA Contest Program Users

[David Pruett]

Jim,

I have 300,000+ QSOs in LoTW (including 5BWAS, WAS "Triple Play", 257 countries pls 5BDXCC) and every single QSO came from NA.  I did it using Cabrillo files, and never had a problem.

However, you probably can use your existing NA ADIF files simply by renaming these from *.adf to *.adi.  NA was one of the first contest loggers to add ADIF support, and at that time, the ADIF spec did not specify a standard file extension for an ADIF file.  I chose ".adf", and much later LoTW chose ".adi".  The ADIF file spec has so much variability built into it, that I decided to avoid the issues with my own logs and went with Cabrillo from the beginning.  And as I said previously, never had a problem...

73,
Dave SV/K8CC
on the sunny island of Rhodes

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> On Aug 15, 2016, at 2:33 AM, Jim George <n3bb at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> With the help of K5NA, I'm "crashing into the present" and getting my contest logs onto LOTW. I've been a TR-Log user since 2003, and TR includes a utility to convert the DAT files to ADIF. Prior to that, I was NA and CT user for years. Yeah, I know. Please don't lecture me on converting from DOS. I'm set up and it works for me. Guilty as charged.
> 
> I'm starting on my NA files from 2003, and they generate a file for each contest with the "contest.adf" as an output. I thought that was the ADIF format, but the LOTW does not seem to recognize it. Can someone help me convert my NA ADF files to ADIF to I can load them into the LOTW. Thanks in advance. Please reply directly.
> 
> Thanks, Jim N3BB
> 
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