[FQP] [FCG] [CQ-Contest] Fwd: [N1MMLoggerplus] New program to split ADIF files by transmitted QTH

[K9TM]

Hi George,

For years many a mobile station created a log file for each county before the contest and then had to exit the logger and restart the logger for each county.  Then some logging programs allowed one log and the ability to change the sent location… like NA and my own logger.  Changing counties is now pretty much instantaneous and everything is in one log file.  So I’m familiar with many methods.  OhQP and MiQP are only one day but I’ve done 38 counties in those 12 hours.

If you have one cabrillo file and that file has each county in the sent info of the QSO: line, I have a utility that will generate a separate cabrillo file for each county with only the QSO: lines made in that county.

I’m not familiar with a way to create LOTW station locations from the command line, without having to use the dialog box… so you’d have to create the LOTW station locations in TQSL.  If they followed a logical pattern such as sscccc where ss=State Abbr and cccc=county abbr and they were created in advance then one could automate the LOTW portion as well to sign/upload the cabrillo files once they are extracted from the main cabrillo log file.

73, Tim K9TM

On Apr 17, 2016, at 7:50 PM, George <georgek5kg at aol.com> wrote:

Hi Tim,

VE7ZO and I go mobile in the FQP and, in the past, have covered as many as 53 counties.  For efficiency reasons, we log everything in one log.  This allows us to change our sent-exchange from one county to the next in very few seconds.  Opening a new log to have a separate Cab file would be out of the question.   At one time, we briefly considered setting up "canned" logs for every county in our route plan, but gave up on that idea believing that it would only be a time waster to find and open a new log when entering a new county.  I can't tell you how many seconds it takes for us to switch counties, as it is Top Secret, but I can assure you, it is damn quick!

Jim's idea of creating independent ADI files after the contest is an interesting one.  However, I need to first send Jim some specific info on how we indicate the presence of each new county in our log. Jim, pse stay tuned.

73, George, K5KG


On 4/17/2016 2:40 PM, K9TM wrote:
> This is funny, for years mobiles had the opposite problem.  They had files for each county and needed to combine the Cabrillo county files into a single Cabrillo file to submit to the sponsors and as such tools were written.
> 
> I noticed this is for ADIF but contests use Cabrillo.  If there is a want/need for a tool to split a Cabrillo file into separate files by county, I could put that together.  LOTW takes Cabrillo so why bother with ADIF and complicate things?
> 
> 73, Tim K9TM
> 
> On Apr 17, 2016, at 9:17 AM, George via FCG <fcg at kkn.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello Bob,
> 
> This is an excellent feature that Jim has developed.  I have requested
> Jim to activate the feature in WinTest.  We use the TxQP module in WT in
> the FQP for our mobile ops in the FL Qso Party.
> 
> 73, George, K5KG
> 
> On 4/17/2016 5:04 AM, Robert Chudek - K0RC wrote:
>> Jim Reisert, AD1C, has added to his log manipulation tools. His new
>> utility will help QSO Party mobile operators prepare their log for
>> uploading to LoTW. The issue has been the need to split the mobile log
>> into individual files which represent all contacts made from each
>> county. If you activated 20 counties, you would need to create 20
>> separate files.
>> 
>> The new utility automates that parsing task for you. This eliminates
>> one tedious job, although you will still need to create separate QTH
>> locations for each county. But this is a one-time setup process and
>> the location files can be reused each year.
>> 
>> Check it out from this link: http://software.ad1c.us/ADIF_Split/
>> 
>> 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject:     [N1MMLoggerplus] New program to split ADIF files by
>> transmitted QTH
>> Date:     Sun, 17 Apr 2016 02:09:54 +0100
>> From:     Jim Reisert AD1C jjreisert at alum.mit.edu [N1MMLoggerplus]
>> <N1MMLoggerplus at yahoogroups.com>
>> Reply-To:     N1MMLoggerplus at yahoogroups.com
>> To:     CQ Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
>> CC:     n1mmloggerplus at yahoogroups.com, WriteLog
>> <writelog at contesting.com>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I wrote a program to split an ADIF file into multiple files based on
>> the transmitted QTH. This is useful so that each log can be signed and
>> uploaded to ARRL Logbook of the World (LoTW) using a different station
>> location. This program works with N1MM and some WriteLog logs (others
>> can be added on request). You can find the web page here:
>> 
>> http://software.ad1c.us/ADIF_Split/
>> 
>> Bug reports, comments, etc. appreciated.
>> 
>> 73 - Jim AD1C
>> 

-- 
George Wagner, K5KG
Sarasota, FL
941-400-1960