ADIF County Conversion

This program converts county abbreviations in ADIF contest logs to a valid ADIF "CNTY" field. This is graphical Windows program.

Version 5.0 of the program was released on 2 May 2013. Click on this link to download the program. Click on this link to see the version history.

To install the program, just extract the "ADIF County Conversion.EXE" file from the ZIP archive and save it in a directory of your choosing. To run the program, just double-click on the program icon. You must choose the input file, the output file, and the state or regional QSO party name to convert. Then click on the Convert button. Any messages will be printed to the text area at the bottom of the program window.

Here are the program features:

Supports these state/regional QSO parties: AL, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MDC, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, 7QP, MAQP, MARAC, NEQP, USCQP

7QP 7-Land QSO Party

MAQP Mid-Atlantic QSO Party

MARAC MARAC CW Contest

NEQP New England QSO Party

USCQP US Counties QSO Party

County lines generate multiple QSOs. For example, if you log me on the county line of Middlesex/Essex MA, you will get two QSOs in the ADIF file, one for each county. The time for each subsequent QSO on the county line will be incremented by 1 second. All other QSO information will be the same.
Certain portable callsigns will be changed. For example, W4ABC/SUW in Suwannee, FL will be changed to W4ABC/M. This prevents logging programs from treating these as a different DXCC entity (like Egypt in the example). The callsign is not sufficient to indicate the country being converted; the program must find a valid exchange field in the ADIF QSO record that contains the country abbreviation.

NOTE:

Only recommended or official county abbreviations are recognized. For example, MTE (not MAN) is the correct abbreviation for Manatee, FL. The program will make its best guess (and show a warning) if it doesn't recognize an abbreviation.

The following contest exchange formats are supported. If your ADIF file uses a different field, send me the file and I will add support for it:

GenLog <qth_rcvd:#>abbrev

N1MM <EXCHANGE1:#>abbrev
<APP_N1MM_EXCHANGE1#>abbrev

NA <comment:#>abbrev

TR <name:#>abbrev

Writelog <CNTY:#>abbrev (and others)

NOTE: CT to ADIF already exports the counties correctly for the contests it supports.

COMING ATTRACTIONS:

Version 4.0 is essentially a re-write of the graphical portion of the original Windows release. One bug fix was made for N1MM. There are a couple of things that I am not happy with and will change soon. In addition:

Include a real Windows (MSI) installer
Continue to support the command-line version for those who want it (using the same code base)
Add a "generic" mode to convert only STATE abbreviations to an ADIF STATE field
Additional output for those who want to see it (i.e. show each QSO that was converted, report total number of QSOs written to output file, etc.)

7QP		7-Land QSO Party
MAQP		Mid-Atlantic QSO Party
MARAC		MARAC CW Contest
NEQP		New England QSO Party
USCQP		US Counties QSO Party

GenLog		<qth_rcvd:#>abbrev
N1MM		<EXCHANGE1:#>abbrev <APP_N1MM_EXCHANGE1#>abbrev
NA		<comment:#>abbrev
TR		<name:#>abbrev
Writelog		<CNTY:#>abbrev (and others)

ADIF County Conversion

Version History