Amateur Data Interchange Format (ADIF) Standard 3.0.4 released

Amateur Data Interchange Format (ADIF) Standard 3.0.4 released

The latest version of the Amateur Data Interchange Format (ADIF) Standard, 3.0.4, has been approved by the ADIF Developer group, and is available from http://adif.org/304/

ADIF is a standard format used to exchange data between different amateur radio programs and websites.
This new version includes improvements to the way modes and awards are represented. It also adds support for SOTA and uploading QSOs to Club Log, HRDLog.net, and QRZ.COM.

For more information about the ADIF Developer group, please see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adifdev/


http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2013/adif_standard_3_0_4_released.htm

 

Ham Radio Deluxe updates..........

Does this new standard make it into HRD 5.24.0.XX?

 

Why would HRD put more work into a non-paying program?

 

Not without the use of a time machine. (HRD 6.2 might be a possibility, though).

 

Is ADIF what LoTW and the likes go by for modes? I've found myself with many modes that I have to convert to a generic "DATA" in order to upload and be recognized.

 

Does this mean that most (or all) logging programs that save as ADIF have to be modified? Just curious.

I use CQRlog for Linux, and always save as ADIF, FWIW.

 

Well maybe 6.11. we're going to try to put out a bug fix update every 2 or 3 weeks after 6.1

 

Well... this is a great question. Being one of the owners of HRD... I can say (as before) that - unfortunately - we won't be able to go back and make updates to the 5.x version of the software. It's not because we expect to become independently wealthy by selling HRD - because we're not. But it's because we're only in this to break-even by barely paying the developers to keep the 6.x product current.

So the new standards will be supported in 6.1 and future version. The 6.1 build is very solid... new features added... old bugs killed... and I think it's well worth making the journey with us. You decide. But the plan is to stay current on a going-forward basis.

Mike, WA9PIE

 

Would you be willing to share in some way what bugs have been squashed? In something less painful and anachronistic than a yahoo group, or frankly yahoo anything. Perhaps any one of the OSS bug tracking solutions would work. I currently run the "legacy" version of HRD, and am frankly looking for a reason to upgrade. You say that it is "well worth making the journey," why not share this journey with the rest of us?

 

6.0 to 6.1 bug fixes here

http://www.hrdsoftwarellc.com/downloads/default.html

6.0 new features..

http://www.hrdsoftwarellc.com/6_feature.pdf

6.1 beta 3 new features..

1. MMSSTV engine
2. CW in supersweeper
3. New radio support for Ic-7100, FT-3000, TS-990
4. Award applications printing
5. Award grid printing
6. Support for FSK in hard from: Timewave Technology, West Mountain Radio, microHAM, US Navigator, RigExpert, MFJ and ZLP Electronics, as well as homebrew interfaces.
7. DCU-2 and DCU-3 rotor support
8. Several key sections of the program are redesigned or significantly upgraded. The license manager has a brand new interface and a wizard for first-time users. Managing and tracking awards now provides the ability to manually or automatically track the application status of award credits by award type within award program groups.
9. Significant improvements were made to awards tracking to enable the download of DXCC applied award credits in addition to DXCC confirmations from LOTW as well as esql.

5.x to 6.0 Showstopper bug fixes only.

http://www.hrdsoftwarellc.com/fixes.pdf
http://www.hrdsoftwarellc.com/fixesbeta2.pdf

But enough about HRD, back to ADIF, on topic.

 

Hi

This is great news. The question is, when will the QRZ database support the SOTA fields ?

Allen
VK3HRA

 

AFAIK the answer is yes. I don't know when LoTW gets updated though. I also seem to recall (but please don't hold me to this) that if you have something tagged as a generic DATA and LoTW later gets support for the mode you can resubmit the record with the actual mode and it will get updated. There was a long discussion about what to do about JT9 and I think this is where I saw that information.

Looking through this new ADIF version they made a big change to how modes are outlined. Before there was a single tag called mode that had the mode (CW, SSB, PSK31, etc.) Now mode is still there, but there's a new submode field. For example a PSK31 contact is now tagged as mode PSK, submode PSK31 where before it was just mode PSK31. What are now submodes have been depreciated from the mode tag. You can also tag USB or LSB as a submode for SSB.

 

JT9 and most other modes are available (and have been for some time) if you update your configuration file.

Log into LoTW, go to "your account", click on "your certificates" and download the latest configuration file (this link may work: https://lotw.arrl.org/lotwuser/config.tq6). Then open TQSL Cert and import the certificate.

73

Dave
K3DCW

 

Yup, and I check here: https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw/faq#modes

I've used several modes not on the list. ALE, QPSK, MFSK4 and SIM31 are a few examples.
Each can be mapped to DATA or generalized, SIM31 to PSK31, MFSK4 to MFSK8, etc., but then LoTW doesn't match my log.

Anyway, not a big issue. Thanks for the reply.

 

Step-by-step instructions are here.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ