[Trlog] importing/exporting log data using ADIF

[alan.kaul at att.net]

Many thanks to Richard Ferch and others who helped..... eventually, we 
(at K6H) were able to make one big log of all the contacts worked on
Field Day (WE HAD FIVE STATIONS IN OPERATION, 4-stations 
logged using WRITELOG, and the fifth used TR).

I would warn anyone trying to combine logs, however, to closely examine the 
ADIF export files from the various programs ---- two different versions of WL 
exported to ADIF the exchange information for Field Day in two different ways:  
he earier version of the program called the other station's transmitter class 
"<RCV:2>" and the later version identified it as "<CAT:2>" ... 
and since TR-log doesn't have an ADIF output format, I used WLOGCONV.EXE 
to massage the .dat file into ADIF and it returned a completely different classification 
for the exchange data!

It was a bit of a surprise but THERE IS NO UNIFORM FORMAT FOR ADIF!! 

--
Alan Kaul W6RCL LaCanada, CA 91011
e-mail:  w6rcl at amsat.org
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> Alan wrote:
> 
> 
> >When the TR data is imported into Writelog and then
> >exported, <m:1> is almost always reported as ? and
> ><p:1> is almost always reported as 0.  I believe
> ><p:1> might be QSO points, but I have no idea what <m:1>
> >is.
> 
> I bet it's the multiplier field. None of these codes (<m>, <p>, <rcvd>, 
> <tx_count>, <category>) is in the ADIF spec, and I imagine that if you 
> imported this log into any application other than WriteLog, they would all 
> probably be ignored.
> 
> Anyway, if the idea was to combine the logs into a single log so you can 
> rescore it and/or create a new Cabrillo file, haven't you reached the point 
> of success?
> 
> As for Paul's original question, I think the easiest answer was Jim's - 
> import the combined log into a spreadsheet. For a contest like IARU where 
> the points per QSO varies, you can create a formula to calculate the points 
> per QSO, but I prefer to just do it by hand - it's quicker. For example, if 
> you sort the entire log on the exchange, the QSOs will be gathered into 
> bunches with the same point score, so you can just enter the number for the 
> first one into a new points column and "wipe" it down the column to the end 
> of the bunch. When this is done for all of the bunches, re-sort the log by 
> band first and exchange second and you can quickly spot all the multipliers 
> (first entry of each mult within each band gets 1 mult point, all others 
> are zero). Once the mults are recorded, a quick calculation gives you the 
> final score.
> 
> 73,
> Rich VE3IAY 
> 
> 
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