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Export a log

Get the log out after the net. CSV gives you the complete roster; ADIF gives you the net as worked from the net-control perspective, for your logging program.

Prerequisites

  • A closed session.
  • The NCS or Owner role on it. Export is denied to participants with HTTP 403.

Steps

Step 1: Open the closed session

Open the session. Its summary renders from the folded event log.

Step 2: Download CSV

Download the CSV export. It carries every captured field for every entry:

  • Callsign, name, location and grid
  • Role, source, entering operator
  • Signal report, staying status
  • Precedence and traffic
  • Timestamps
  • Per-station staff and public notes, and net-level notes
  • The way in — which of the net's connections that station actually arrived on, written the way it reads on screen ("HF — 14.230 MHz", "EchoLink — 12345"), as that connection stood when the station checked in — a net that moved frequency afterwards does not rewrite it. The cell is empty when nobody recorded one, which is not the same as the station having arrived on the net's first connection. If net control typed a way in the net does not list, the cell carries their words.

Step 3: Download ADIF

Download the ADIF export for a valid ADIF file representing the net as worked from the net control station's perspective. Import it into your logging program.

Each QSO is described by the way that station came in on, not by the net's headline frequency. On a cross-mode net that matters: a station that checked in over EchoLink gets PROP_MODE ECH and no band and no frequency, because it had none — rather than being stamped with the HF band the net also runs on. A station on AllStar, DMR, D-Star, System Fusion or a URF reflector gets PROP_MODE INTERNET the same way. A station on a radio way in gets FREQ, BAND and MODE from that connection. FREQ is the frequency that connection was on when the station checked in: if the net moved frequency later in the session, the stations worked before the move keep the frequency they were actually worked on.

Two cases fall outside that. A check-in with no recorded way in falls back to the connection the export is about — the first one carrying a frequency, else the one the net leads with — so an ordinary single-frequency net exports exactly as it always did. A check-in whose way in the net does not list carries no band, mode, frequency or propagation tag at all; there is nothing truthful to put there, and an ADIF file reaches LoTW and QRZ and cannot be recalled.

Verify

Open the CSV. Its row count matches the roster in the on-screen summary, and the entries are in the same order — both are generated from the same event log, so the export reflects the session exactly as it ran.

Spreadsheet safety

Any field that starts with a spreadsheet formula character is escaped when the CSV is generated, so opening the file in a spreadsheet can't execute a value someone typed into a callsign or a note.

Getting the log delivered automatically

Rather than downloading by hand every week, configure per-net email addresses and a webhook. NetRoll delivers the summary to them the moment the session closes — including when the session was auto-closed after being abandoned. See configure delivery.