I'm new to this digital logging business. Is it possible to convert the .adi files I can d/l here to MS Excel (.xls) files? I did a Google on .adi and it seems to be an AutoCAD format??? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...

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W9UCR Robert Lade

Hi,

Convert an ADI file to excel ? I don't know what for.....
This ADI format, as far as I know, has nothing to do with Autocad plotter files.
It's a simple text file, so you can open it as a text file with Excel, but then, how to set the
delimitors ?

with fixed length columns, it won't work because :

<CALL:4>N3RS<QSO_DATE:8:.........

and

<CALL:10>FR/F6KDF/T<QSO_DATE:8:.......

won't be cut both at the right place


and there's no convenient character either to be used as a delimitor.


So, you'd better look for a software which imports an adif file and can export to a lot of
files, Excel........aso.......Swisslog does that and certainly others.


Good luck

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F6DKQ Guy FALCOZ

I convert my excel spreadsheet log entries into ADIF format. I found good instructions on how to do this on the web. So it should be possible to write excel expressions to do the reverse conversion.

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N1UK Mark Robinson

ADI is an ASCII text format. I can view my ADI files in Notepad. The AutoCad format must be something else

http://www.adif.org/

and here is some reading to get you started

http://www.g6csy.net/ham/adif.html

Let me know if I can help you anymore


Mark N1UK G3ZZM

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N1UK Mark Robinson

I simply double clilck on the ADI file and MS Excel opens it as an XLS file.
No special conversion necessary.


Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke

www.n0eq.com

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N0EQ Craig Lumpy Lemke