[Dx4win] ADIF Import question

[John Shaw]

Very good point Alan, and I have the SAME CALL window open all the time
and use that very piece of information, often I will comment to a
station when having a QSO that it is good to get there name as our other
QSO's are all contest ones.

Just to re iterate one point though, use the same group each year for
the same contest.  Saves using all those groups and you can still tell
at a glance which year it was by the date.  If you really need to home
in on one year just make a selection with a date filter.

This sort of thing is what attracted me to DX4WIN in the first place,
there is hardly a task that cant be achieved with a little thought and
observation.

73 John ZL1BYZ

-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces+jnshaw=internet.co.nz at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:dx4win-bounces+jnshaw=internet.co.nz at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf
Of Alan Zack
Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2006 1:20 p.m.
To: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] ADIF Import question

This is the way I do it also.  I use a new Group number for each contest

I import from CT.  If you leave the SAME CALL window open all the time 
(I do) the contest name you assigned to that Group number will show in 
that (SAME CALL) window.  So if I hear ZL1BYZ calling CQ and I type his 
call into my DX4WIN Callsign window all previous contacts with ZL1BYZ 
will be shown in the SAME CALL window showing when and in what group 
(Contest) I worked him.
73

>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.
>
>
>73 John ZL1BYZ.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dx4win-bounces+jnshaw=internet.co.nz at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:dx4win-bounces+jnshaw=internet.co.nz at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf
>Of Scott Neader KA9FOX
>Sent: Tuesday, 13 June 2006 4:43 p.m.
>To: dx4win at 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 
>
>
>
>  
>

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