[SD-User] ADIF and Power

[Paul Bigwood]

You can do the same with Notepad.

I've just switched to using logger32 as my main log and when importing from
Turbolog I moved whole fields like  this.

In Turbolog I used the IOTA field for general notes, like the contest name,
which aerial I was using etc, because it appeared on the main logging page,
whereas the comments line didn't.

Using the find and replace function of Notepad, it was very easy to move the
general notes to the notes field of Logger32 and the Contest named ones to
the contest_id field.

ADIF is a very flexible and powerful means of moving large amounts of data
between two different programs, but extremely easy to use, once you know the
basics of how it works.  I use it all the time for importing SD logs into
logger32 after the contests. Not to many QSO's each time but that's another
story!

73 de Paul G3WYW


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <G3OOK at aol.com>
To: <sd-user at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:52 PM
Subject: [SD-User] ADIF and Power


> This method takes just a few minutes to fill the Power field. I edit the
ADIF
> itself before importing. ADIF is an ASCII text based file.
>
> Open the ADIF in text editor Windows Wordpad. You will see the format
> and note that each QSO has a record terminator <EOR> (End of record).
>
> The ADIF field for Power is "TX_PWR" and would normally be outputed like
>
> <TX_PWR:3>100
>
> ....the "3" in the above is the length of the text string outputed e.g.
> "100" = 3 characters, so for instance if you want to add the power of 400
> you would add a tag like <TX_PWR:3>400 or for 26dbW it would be
<TX_PWR:2>26
> note that the length has changed and MUST be present and correct -I am
sure
> form the above you will understand how ADIF works. The TAGS do not have to
> be in any order of have any peculiar spacing or other characters added.
>
> A Replace option exists in Wordpad so we must use this and as each record
is
> terminated by
> <EOR>....
>
> "Find What" <EOR>
>
> "Replace With" <TX_PWR:3>400 <EOR>
>
> Note that when 'replacing' you must also include the <EOR> tag like in
above
> example
>
> Save changes before importing the above file and power should be recorded
in
> your log.
>
> Hope this does the job. 73.
> John G3OOK
>
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