[Dx4win] Qs on Importing Log Data and Satellite Info

Eric Rosenberg wd3q at starpower.net
Thu Mar 24 09:34:19 EST 2005


I have printouts of old, pre-DX4win logs of los of satellite QSOs that I
want to add to my DX4Win logs.  My thought is to scan the logs and save
them as text or comma delimited files.   

My questions are: 

- how to get them into DX4win and properly designating the proper fields

- how to generate a proper ADIF file as per LoTW rules.  Note that
satellite QSO have to be treated differently. LoTW uses the following
fields that I do not believe are supported by DX4Win directly or
correctly in the creation of ADIF files:  

<BAND>  -- the uplink band
<PROP_MODE>  -- various vhf/uhf modes. in this case it would be SAT 
<BAND_RX>  -- the downlink band
<SAT_NAME>  -- the satellite name. Note that LoTW has specified th names. 

I've seen a minimalist Excel spreadsheet (author?) for inputting QSOs and
dreating an SDIF file in lieu of a logbook, but it didn't have the fields
I need and I'm no programmer to modify it!  

Any help is greatly (!) appreciated 

Thanks and 73, 

Eric W3DQ
Washington, DC 


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