diff --git a/application/libraries/Adif_parser.php b/application/libraries/Adif_parser.php
index 7368f7c5..06f6fc52 100644
--- a/application/libraries/Adif_parser.php
+++ b/application/libraries/Adif_parser.php
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class ADIF_Parser
 	var $data; //the adif data
     var $datasplit; // one entry is one QSO in the array
     var $currentarray = 0; // current place in the array
-	var $i; //the iterator
+	var $i = 0; //the iterator
 	var $headers = array();
 	
 	public function initialize() //this function locates the <EOH>
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ class ADIF_Parser
 
 		$pos = mb_stripos(mb_strtoupper($this->data, "UTF-8"), "<EOH>", 0, "UTF-8");
 
+		$in_tag = false;
+		$tag = "";
+		$value_length = "";
+		$value = "";
+
 		if($pos == false) //did we find the end of headers?
 		{
 			// Just skip if we did not find (optional) headers
@@ -36,14 +41,6 @@ class ADIF_Parser
 			goto noheaders;
 		};
 			
-		//get headers
-		
-		$this->i = 0;
-		$in_tag = false;
-		$tag = "";
-		$value_length = "";
-		$value = "";
-				
 		while($this->i < $pos)
 		{
 			//skip comments