[Dx4win] Importing Paper Logs
I commenced using DX4Win in the mid-90s and immediately commenced to covert my paper logs to digital format. I used "Basic Log" which is an Excel program to enter the fundamental QSO information and then transform the file to adif format. The process is pure drudgery but in time all QSOs in my paper log were in an adif file and then imported into DX4Win. I have never regretted the effort it took. I did a quick internet search to see if this was still on line but could not find it. But I have the original zipped free-ware file and will be happy to send it to anyone interested. Simply let me know. 73, Al Walters - K5NOF k5...@arrl.net __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Importing papar logs
Hi Radi - Randy, K5ZD, put me on to LM, by DL6WAA, when I volunteered to transcribe paper logs for the WPX. It does a good job of streamlining this task as much as possible, but it's still a time consuming job doing it by hand like this... You can export a file in a number of different formats. Good Luck! 73 - John, W4AU On 1/15/2016 11:18 AM, Radivoj Kar, F6GNZ via DX4WIN wrote: I started using DX4WIN from its first version and logged all contacts since up to the last version. But I have many thousands of QSOs in my paper log prior to DX4WIN use and do not dare to start entering QSOs one-by-one. Has anybody found a fast way to do it, like scanning, using OCR etc...How did it work and how much time it takes per 1000 QSOs?? 73, Radi F6GNZ __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Importing papar logs
Hello Cesare, Thank you very much for fast response. I did not know anything about FLE, just downloaded it now. I was using BV7 for QSL prints from the beginning, but did not know Bernd has nade the Fast Log Entry. So, will try it, though I still think it will take a lot of time to enter all paper QSOs even with this short method. But will see if my nerves support it, HI! Best 73 and thanks again, Radi F6GNZ Le Vendredi 15 janvier 2016 17h47, PY2YP a écrit : I did log all paper QSOs using Fast Log Entry by DF3CB which makes the task very fast and easy. After typing a given period you have to generate an ADIF file then import it from the DX4WIN. The nice side of typing, despite of being a little tedious, is that I did find several new band countries, most of them deleted ones, that I didn't know that I had. By the way I don't know any OCR smart enough to understand callsigns, if some one find one please let me know, I'd love to try it. 73 DX de PY2YP - Cesar On 15/01/2016 14:18, Radivoj Kar, F6GNZ via DX4WIN wrote: > I started using DX4WIN from its first version and logged all contacts since > up to the last version. But I have many thousands of QSOs in my paper log > prior to DX4WIN use and do not dare to start entering QSOs one-by-one. > Has anybody found a fast way to do it, like scanning, using OCR etc...How did > it work and how much time it takes per 1000 QSOs?? > 73, Radi F6GNZ > __ > DX4WIN mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Importing papar logs
Hi Jim, Thanks for the suggestion. I myself AM retired, but have no spare time, HI! 73, Radi F6GNZ Le Vendredi 15 janvier 2016 18h14, Jim Reisert AD1C a écrit : Hire a secondary school or university student, or a retiree who has the time. You can always go over all the QSOs afterward and make corrections as needed. I do think the the DF3CB utility is the fastest way to go, especially if you only care about call/date/time/band/mode. I'm glad I did this back in the early 1990s when I had no station. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Importing papar logs
Hire a secondary school or university student, or a retiree who has the time. You can always go over all the QSOs afterward and make corrections as needed. I do think the the DF3CB utility is the fastest way to go, especially if you only care about call/date/time/band/mode. I'm glad I did this back in the early 1990s when I had no station. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Importing papar logs
I did log all paper QSOs using Fast Log Entry by DF3CB which makes the task very fast and easy. After typing a given period you have to generate an ADIF file then import it from the DX4WIN. The nice side of typing, despite of being a little tedious, is that I did find several new band countries, most of them deleted ones, that I didn't know that I had. By the way I don't know any OCR smart enough to understand callsigns, if some one find one please let me know, I'd love to try it. 73 DX de PY2YP - Cesar On 15/01/2016 14:18, Radivoj Kar, F6GNZ via DX4WIN wrote: I started using DX4WIN from its first version and logged all contacts since up to the last version. But I have many thousands of QSOs in my paper log prior to DX4WIN use and do not dare to start entering QSOs one-by-one. Has anybody found a fast way to do it, like scanning, using OCR etc...How did it work and how much time it takes per 1000 QSOs?? 73, Radi F6GNZ __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Dx4win] Importing papar logs
I started using DX4WIN from its first version and logged all contacts since up to the last version. But I have many thousands of QSOs in my paper log prior to DX4WIN use and do not dare to start entering QSOs one-by-one. Has anybody found a fast way to do it, like scanning, using OCR etc...How did it work and how much time it takes per 1000 QSOs?? 73, Radi F6GNZ __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Npota
It's working here. KO3F was just spotted on 40 SSB from TR22. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Dx4win] Npota
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:36 PM, W9RPM wrote: > Put the file in Membership, and named the ID N, but nothing showed up all > day. Must have not done something right. Were any of them spotted? Try SH/DX on a few of the calls. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us __ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html