ADIF County Conversion

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

Version 4.4 of the program was released on 27 October 2009. Click on this link to download the program. Click on this link to see the revision 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 converted. 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).

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)

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
• Add warning messages for unrecognized abbreviations
• 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.)

Revision History