I recently worked the MN QSO party using N1MM logger. I imported those q's, 255 of them and all seemed ok. Well just recently I discovered the country had not been populated. I looked back through the forum and found a post that explained why that occurred. So I did a field update and got the country into all the q's. But I also noticed that the state field had been populated in only about half of the q's and was blank in the rest. I looked at the N1MM adif and the state looked ok in all the entries. Anybody have an idea of what could be wrong and once I figure this out can the adif just be reapplied?
Thanks,
Harry
W0LS
N1MM ADIF Import Problem
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Re: N1MM ADIF Import Problem
Harry,
Thank you for sending me your ADIF file that was exported from N1MM.
The problems are a recurring issue with N1MM not conforming to the ADIF format in its entirety. Some of the N1MM are ADIF standard fields but many are program specific.
e.g
The correct ADIF state format is <STATE:2>MN
Whereas N1MM uses <APP_N1MM_EXCHANGE1:2>MN (APP indicates that this is an application specific field, not a standard ADIF field)
Log4OM maintains a strict adherence to the ADIF format and will not import special program specific fields, just think how many different import routines would be required to encompass all the different program specific fields for every different logging program that has ever been written? That said, to my knowledge no other software imports any program specific fields from other programs either!
The other issue is that N1MM does not provide a country name nor DXCC number in its ADIF export so we have nothing to import into Log4OM!
However Log4OM can overcome these shortcomings in other software quiet easily so in future when you import an N1MM ADIF file do the following:
1. During the ADIF import check the box 'Update countries in ADIF'
2. Once the import is completed go to the Log4OM QSO Archive manager and check the box 'Enable Update'
3. Select all of the QSO's by clicking the 'Select All' button at the bottom of the window
4. Click on the 'Update info' button at the top of the window - This checks every QSO against QRZ/HamQTH for the missing information, including the missing states.
Providing the information is available from the online lookup service you use all of the fields will be filled, there may be the odd couple of missing ones which you will have to update manually. However in the ADIF you provided QRZ had the state information for every QSO so the manual updating was not required.
Thank you for sending me your ADIF file that was exported from N1MM.
The problems are a recurring issue with N1MM not conforming to the ADIF format in its entirety. Some of the N1MM are ADIF standard fields but many are program specific.
e.g
The correct ADIF state format is <STATE:2>MN
Whereas N1MM uses <APP_N1MM_EXCHANGE1:2>MN (APP indicates that this is an application specific field, not a standard ADIF field)
Log4OM maintains a strict adherence to the ADIF format and will not import special program specific fields, just think how many different import routines would be required to encompass all the different program specific fields for every different logging program that has ever been written? That said, to my knowledge no other software imports any program specific fields from other programs either!
The other issue is that N1MM does not provide a country name nor DXCC number in its ADIF export so we have nothing to import into Log4OM!
However Log4OM can overcome these shortcomings in other software quiet easily so in future when you import an N1MM ADIF file do the following:
1. During the ADIF import check the box 'Update countries in ADIF'
2. Once the import is completed go to the Log4OM QSO Archive manager and check the box 'Enable Update'
3. Select all of the QSO's by clicking the 'Select All' button at the bottom of the window
4. Click on the 'Update info' button at the top of the window - This checks every QSO against QRZ/HamQTH for the missing information, including the missing states.
Providing the information is available from the online lookup service you use all of the fields will be filled, there may be the odd couple of missing ones which you will have to update manually. However in the ADIF you provided QRZ had the state information for every QSO so the manual updating was not required.
73 Terry G4POP
Re: N1MM ADIF Import Problem
Thanks again Terry...everything is fixed and I am enjoying the logger...
Harry
W0LS
Harry
W0LS
