[Dx4win] Writelog to DX4WIN log conversion

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

For a few years now, I have been working on a tool to convert Writelog 
logs to DX4WIN.  More on the features later.  The main reason I wrote it 
was that I don't like the way DX4WIN imports ADIF files:

- it puts "Freq=" in the "Notes for this QSO" field, which makes the 
QSOs look "different" than non-contest QSOs (i.e. when you have Contest 
Mode enabled in DX4WIN)

- it puts the sent serial number into that same field (even when the 
contest doesn't have serial numbers, like ARRL FD)

- it doesn't put some data in the Recvd field which you might put there 
if you were using DX4WIN to log the contest, like Class (2A, 1D, etc.) 
in ARRL Field Day.

I mostly use Writelog for RTTY contests, but plan to use it more for 
other CW/SSB contests.

Now onto the program features:

- it's Windows GUI based.  It's just a .EXE file, it does not use the 
Windows installer

- it inputs the ADIF file that you export from Writelog

- it outputs a .DXQ file which DX4WIN can import in DX4WIN6 format

- it supports (converts) these contests:

   BARTG
   BARTG_SPRINT
   CAQP
   CQWW
   FD (ARRL Field Day)
   JARTS
   NAQP
   NA_SPRINT
   RU (ARRL RTTY Round-up)
   SS (ARRL Sweepstakes)
   WAE
   WPX

   Notice these are mostly RTTY contests.  If the rules are exactly the 
same for non-RTTY, then that conversion should work.

- CAQP is the only contest so far that automatically converts the CA 
county abbreviations to actual county names compatible with DX4WIN.  I 
plan to use Writelog this weekend in the contest.


Caveats:

- I've only tested with Writelog 10.68.  I don't know if the 
APP_WRITELOG fields in the Writelog ADIF file are the same for all 
versions of Writelog.  They also might be different if a contest has 
different modes, i.e. CQWW CW/SSB and CQWW RTTY.

- If the contest has names (like NAQP), importing the converted log may 
duplicate the name in the "Notes for this Call" field, i.e. Jim/Jim. 
This might be true any time you import a log into DX4WIN.

- There may be a program like this already out there that I'm unaware of.



If there's interest, I can make this program publicly available on an 
"as-is" basis.  I'll fix bugs and take feature requests, but 
implementing them will be at my whim.

73 - Jim AD1C

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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us