Scott, A better solution to putting the contest name in the notes is to import the contest log into it's own group, the group name will show up in your log window and you can use the same group year after year if you want to look at one year just make a selection using a date filter.
If you really must put the name in the notes then just use the find and replace function in a text editor on the adif file. You already have a comment in the adif you don't want for the frequency so do something like this. Find <comment:7> (the one for the frequency coment) and replace with <comment:12>CQWW Contest. Get the idea, you fix two things in one hit note the <comment:7> should match the comment for the frequency entry you said you had in your adif file, I'm just guessing here what it might be. You may have to do this a few times if you changed bands that caused the frequency to be longer or shorter as the number in the <comment:7> will match the length of the data. This is to your advantage as the old frequency data will be ignored as long as you make sure the replacement <comment:12> number matches exactly the new message you want which is entered immediately after the <comment:12>. Hope this makes sense, it is always hard to know how much someone understands already when sending these messages. All of this should take about 5 minutes, no need for Paul or anyone to write programs. The problem with people writing these converters is things change, an example is I live outside USA and often the data in my log is different to what USA participants have so a nice little converter program someone has lovingly crafted is junk for me. So the text editor is often a superior way of doing it. 73 John ZL1BYZ. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Neader KA9FOX Sent: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 4:43 p.m. To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Dx4win] ADIF Import question Maybe this has been asked a 100 times before, but I can't find it... my apologies if this is a dupe... I am trying to import contest logs into DX4WIN, using the ADIF format. I want the name of the contest imported, to be displayed as a "Notes For This QSO". The ADIF file has the name of the contest listed with the standard field name "CONTEST_ID" but I can't get DX4WIN to do anything with this field... it seems to ignores this field, and instead creates its own COMMENT field by taking the frequency of the QSO and the QSO Number and putting that in the Notes For This QSO field. I've been able to circumvent this, sort of, by manually editing the ADIF file and changing the CONTEST_ID field name to COMMENT. DX4WIN then DOES bring in the Contest Name into the Notes For This QSO field, and then appends the Frequency (I really don't want this -- who cares?) and the QSO number (this is OK)... making a big Notes field of "Contest Name + Frequency + QSO Number" -- but it fits. Is there a better way? - Scott KA9FOX _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
