I usully submit my rover logs with the /r and without.
Randy
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From: Bob K0NR - email list <list@k0nr.com>
Date: 1/5/17 7:39 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Logging Rovers vs the log checking robots
Yeah, so I've been looking at my LoTW entries with rovers...lots of
unconfirmed contacts...arguably a higher percentage than with fixed
stations.
It seems that the whole /R thing is a bit error prone. The non-rover
needs to log the callsign correctly and the rover needs to submit it to
LoTW the same way.
73, Bob K0NR
On 05-Jan-17 3:10 PM, Keith Morehouse wrote:
> Bruce, you are one of the few callsigns with /R that I have always matched
> in LoTW. Thanks for having both certificates !
>
> Same with WB8BZK (or, should I say WB8BZK/R...) !
>
> Jay W9RM
> DM58 CO
>
> Keith J Morehouse
> Managing Partner
> Calmesa Partners G.P.
> Olathe, CO
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Bruce Richardson <w9fz@w9fz.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jay and all:
>>
>> As a rover, I went ahead and got a "child" certificate for "W9FZ" as
>> "W9FZ/R". Personally, I never upload VHF+ logs with the plain callsign but
>> always with the /R. I will say that in HF State QSO parties, I've uploaded
>> with plain, /M, and /XXX where XXX is a 3-letter abbreviation for the
>> county. Of the successful LOTW QSL's (in those QSO parties), about 33%
>> comes from each version of my callsign.
>>
>> There is another more tedious reason that many rovers never upload (or
>> successfully upload) for LOTW is that, really, for each grid, another
>> "Location" has to be built.
>>
>> Since I revisit rover spots over the years, I'm able to re-use some of the
>> locations I've built. I build the locations in TQSL. They have a unique
>> name that I'll recognize, the grid, and I even do the county and the two
>> zone numbers correctly. I believe county and zones are optional. Since I
>> go to the level of detail of county and zones, Sometimes I have to build
>> different locations within the same grid. A rover who operates "on the
>> fly"
>> could build locations but it would never really be accurate at the county
>> level.
>>
>> I like LOTW and I like supplying grids as a rover. I like going the extra
>> tedious mile and making locations and signing just portions of the entire
>> log with the appropriate location/grid.
>>
>> 73
>> Bruce Richardson W9FZ/R
>>
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