[WriteLog] Prefill for Writelog

robert beaudoin wa1fcn at charter.net
Thu Sep 21 14:28:15 EDT 2023


     Good Afternoon Craig

             How about this one ...... 
http://www.eidxa.org/DX-Info2.html#contest_resources

                 I loaded this into Writelog and checked a couple 
calls...... seems ok.

                     Websites says good as of September 2022

                     73  BoB WA!FCN

On 9/21/2023 12:04 AM, k0cf-Craig wrote:
> I was a big fan of Gary Senesac, AL9A and used his prefill files. When
> Gary suddenly passed
> away in 2016, no one stepped in to do the prefill files. Having a
> strong working knowledge of
> Microsoft Excel, I though I could use that to create prefill files. I
> also discovered the
> N1MM repository of call history files. It only took a short while to
> combine the N1MM as
> source and create an Excel worksheet to convert the plain text N1MM to
> properly formatted
> ADIF. Once a spreadsheet is created, it is a quick process to copy and
> paste each year's
> new N1MM file in, perform touch-ups and extend the length to match the
> new source and
> you are done. The final step is to copy the column of ADIF data to a
> text editor and save it
> with an "ADI" file extension.
>
> All that being said, I would be happy to share the first few lines of
> a worksheet to demonstrate
> the technique. If anyone with strong knowledge of Excel would like to
> pick this up, please
> email me and I will send you enough lines from a sheet to get you
> started. It will be plain
> text, which you can paste into a worksheet.
>
> Note that I have 46 worksheets in a single workbook that contains the
> entire library (it's
> over 16 megabytes).
>
> Any takers?
>
>   73,
> Craig  KØCF
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