[Dx4win] ADIF output

David Kozinn, K2DBK k2dbk at arrl.net
Mon Oct 26 20:26:53 EDT 2009


I recently started using Club Log (http://www.clublog.org/about.php) 
which is a website where you can upload your log data and get some nice 
stats about it, as well as providing the data for aggregate "most 
wanted" lists and other information.

If found what I think are a couple of problems with the ADIF output from 
DX4Win. First, I have a handful of QSOs that are logged in D4W as 
mode=Packet and band=Sat. (They were via the Packet repeater aboard the 
ISS.) The ADIF output shows the band as xxxm. The Club Log folks said 
this isn't valid, though I am not familiar enough with the ADIF spec to 
know if the Mode and Prop_Mode fields should be sufficient. Does anyone 
know what it should say?

The other issue issue is for QSOs marked as Invalid for DXCC. According 
to the Club Log folks, they are looking either for an ADIF entity number 
of zero or a QSL_SENT or QSL_RCVD set to I (for invalid). I guess I can 
manually set the invalid QSOs to a QSL type of I, though for some (for 
instance HZ1MD), the QSL was valid, it just wasn't accepted (lack of 
documentation) by the DXCC desk. I guess in the future it might be 
useful if D4W could somehow indicate that these weren't valid in the ADIF.

For now, I'll work around these (there are few enough that I can edit by 
hand), but I figured I'd just throw this out there.

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73,
	David, K2DBK
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