[Dx4win] Writelog to DX4WIN log conversion

[Don Cassel]

Hi Jim,

Is this program the same as wl2dx4win.exe?  If so I use it all the time. My
version is from 2005 but I forget where I got it from.  If yours is
different then an updated one would be useful. 

BTW I went to the revealing of the 2009 TL last night in Toronto. Quite a
show and a nice update to the TL although now it is much like the 2009 RL.
Also bought a dSLR this summer, the Canon Xsi. I'm having great fun with
that.

Hope all is well at your new QTH and thanks for the 20m contact in the CQWW
RTTY.

73, Don VE3XD

-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: October-02-08 5:34 PM
To: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Dx4win] Writelog to DX4WIN log conversion

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

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


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