This is my first time trying to upload to eQSL, and I've gotten the error message "TIME bad:" for all entries. The ADIF file is from XLog, and all of the entries into XLog were from old QSL cards, and not using the automatic time entry.

Any suggestions?

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N9IK Thor Farrow

Have you looked at your .adi file. You can open it with either Notepad or Wordpad. The time format should look like this

<time_on:4>2014 <time_off:4>0000

Note here I hadn't specified a time off so the default was 0000. These are text files so easy to look at manipulate. At the end of each QSO record string of data there should be a <eor>

<call:4>4L8A <name:0> <qso_date:8>20070825 <freq:6>14.021 <band:3>20M <mode:2>cw <tx_pwr:3>600 <time_on:4>2032 <time_off:4>0000 <rst_sent:3>599 <rst_rcvd:3>599 <eor>
<call:4>UW2M <name:0> <qso_date:8>20070825 <freq:6>14.023 <band:3>20M <mode:2>cw <tx_pwr:3>600 <time_on:4>2035 <time_off:4>0000 <rst_sent:3>599 <rst_rcvd:3>599 <eor>


This is interesting reading

http://www.adif.org/adif.html

See if you can post a couple of lines of your adi file here and we can look at it and see if there is something wrong with the format. I learned about this because I had to generate my ADIF file using xcel.


Mark N1UK G3ZZM

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N1UK Mark Robinson

When I first created my ADIF file it wouln't upload to eQSL because I had time and not time_on.

Your log time must also be in 24 hour format and showing GMT (UTC)


Take a look and let us know what your file contains. E-mail me if you have any issues opening your .adi file.


Mark N1UK G3ZZM

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N1UK Mark Robinson

Thanks Mark. I took a look the ADI file, and found that the file as exported from XLog has the TIME_ON and TIME_OFF fields formatted as 5 characters wide, with the time including the colon, eg. 13:27, rather than as 1327. I manually edit the file and the update worked, sort of. The comment field from XLog did not input (this field is labeled "COMMENT" in the file).

Thanks again,

- Thor, N9IK

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N9IK Thor Farrow

This shows the new ADIF version 2 specifications

http://www.adif.org/adif218.htm

and time is specified as

Time T 6 Digits representing a UTC time in HHMMSS format or 4 Digits representing a time in HHMM format, where

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HH is a 2-Digit hour specifier, where 0 <= HH <= 23 [use leading zeroes]
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MM is a 2-Digit minute specifier, where 0 <= MM <= 59 [use leading zeroes]
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SS is a 2-Digit second specifier, where 0 <= SS <= 59 [use leading zeroes]

So your log output is not conforming to the ADIF specifications. I am glad that you got it working.


Mark N1UK G3ZZM

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N1UK Mark Robinson

Oh another thing, if you can export your data as an xcel spreadsheet data type then there are a bunch of formating tricks that work from within xcel that can produce the ADIF file. Let me know and I will point you in the right direction to find the information. This is how I produce my ADIF file from my Acess database application. I can then chose which log fields I want to include in the final adif file and control the formattring of it.


Mark N1UK G3ZZM

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N1UK Mark Robinson