On May 29, 3:08 pm, "
wrote:

I am not into contesting myself, but I did have the idea of doing
what you suggested with contest records. However, I need to get a
copy of the records from someone, or at least a few records to see how
to format them when the program reads them into the program. I may
have to get records from every logging program, I don't know if there
is a standard format.

If you can post a few in this news group, I will go to work with the
modification.


ADIF is a standard format which pretty much all logging programs (not
just contesting programs) can export and import, allowing the exchange
of log information between programs, regardless of the 'native' file
structure of the importing/exporting program.

The specifications for ADIF are at http://www.adif.org/ ..... there
are two generations, ADIF 1 and ADIF 2. Build to ADIF 2, as it is
backward compatible to ADIF 1.

Below is a short excerpt with 4 records from a recent export from one
of my programs. The ADIF file is straight ASCII text, and your
QSLeCard program would only need import a few fields from each record,
ie. CALL, FREQ, MODE, QSO_DATE, RST_SENT, and TIME_ON.

QSL.ADI export file created by Logger32 Version 3.3 Build 0. File
created on 5/27/2007 7:53:09 PM
EOH
BAND:310M CALL:5UT3UA CONT:2EU CQZ:216 DXCC:3288 FREQ:
928.684000 ITUZ:229 MODE:3SSB NAME:18Sergio V Vasilenko
OPERATOR:4K0HB PFX:3UT3 DEFANGED-APP_LOGGER32_QSL:1Y QSL_RCVD:1Y
QSLRDATE:820070423 QSO_DATE:820000304 RST_RCVD:259 RST_SENT:
259 TIME_ON:6171545 TIME_OFF:6000046 DEFANGED-APP_LOGGER32_QSO_NUMBER:
513691 EOR

BAND:320M CALL:6JA0JHA CONT:2AS CQZ:225 DXCC:3339 FREQ:
914.274000 ITUZ:245 MODE:3SSB NAME:14Akira Minagawa OPERATOR:
4K0HB PFX:3JA0 DEFANGED-APP_LOGGER32_QSL:1Y QSL_RCVD:1Y QSLRDATE:
820060802 QSO_DATE:820000305 QTH:5Koide RST_RCVD:259
RST_SENT:259 TIME_ON:6060506 TIME_OFF:6000007
DEFANGED-APP_LOGGER32_QSO_NUMBER:513882 EOR

BAND:310M CALL:5HA5CW CONT:2EU CQZ:215 DXCC:3239 FREQ:
928.915000 ITUZ:228 MODE:3SSB NAME:16Jozsef Gyongyosi OPERATOR:
4K0HB PFX:3HA5 DEFANGED-APP_LOGGER32_QSL:1Y QSL_RCVD:1Y QSLRDATE:
820060525 QSO_DATE:820000305 QTH:15H-1162 Budapest RST_RCVD:
259 RST_SENT:259 TIME_ON:6173205 TIME_OFF:6000006
DEFANGED-APP_LOGGER32_QSO_NUMBER:513919 EOR

BAND:315M CALL:6JR4PMX CONT:2AS CQZ:225 DXCC:3339 FREQ:
921.050000 ITUZ:245 MODE:2CW NAME:15Hiroshi Okazaki OPERATOR:
4K0HB PFX:3JR4 DEFANGED-APP_LOGGER32_QSL:1Y QSL_RCVD:1Y QSLRDATE:
820060525 QSO_DATE:820001125 QTH:12Yokohama 235 RST_RCVD:3599
RST_SENT:3599 TIME_ON:6020556 TIME_OFF:6000057
DEFANGED-APP_LOGGER32_QSO_NUMBER:516146 EOR

73, de Hans, K0HB