[SCCC] Operating on a County Line - LOTW

[Tree]

I can perhaps add a small bit of data to this discussion.

While you can't upload two QSOs that perfectly match (and maybe even that
have slight time differences) - you can upload two QSOs that match except
for your own callsign.

I upload duplicate QSO entries all the time - one with N6TR and one with
N6TR/7.  That way - regardless of how I am logged - the QSO will match one
or the other.  Then you can combine them for awards.

This probably doesn't open the door to any easy solution for the county
line problem - unless everyone decides to adopt some kind of definition of
what you can put after the / sign to identify your county.  However, even
with that - it would be a pain getting callsign certificates for each
county and dealing with all of the individual uploads.

I know the ARRL keeps thinking about a major LOTW upgrade - and
certainly tackling this problem would be a worthy feature to include in
that.

73 Tree N6TR and N6TR/7 (but not K7RAT/7)

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 7:41 AM Dennis Younker NE6I <NE6I at cox.net> wrote:

> Thanks Greg and others. This makes sense although I'm not sure if a minute
> will be enough. I believe there is a small window where QSOs match even if
> the timestamps are slightly different at each end. Regardless, I guess it's
> actually moot since as you say, LOTW does not support USA-CA or any other
> county awards at this time. I'll remind the person that brought this up of
> this fact.
>
> --Dennis NE6I
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SCCC <sccc-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Greg De Hoogh
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2021 7:26 PM
> To: SCCC at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [SCCC] Operating on a County Line - LOTW
>
> This came up in the LoTW email discussion group recently. Apparently, LoTW
> doesn't support multiple counties per entry at this time because it doesn't
> support any awards that require county information. So, in order to confirm
> a contact from more than one county, you would need to upload a separate
> record for each county. You can't just upload the same ADIF file for each
> county, though, because if the timestamp and callsign of a particular
> record
> matches one that's already on LoTW, the second one will replace the first
> one. So, you need to change the time for the second contact by a minute or
> more to avoid this replacement. Caveat:
> While the person who explained it seems to know what he's talking about, I
> have not idea whether that's actually true or not ... but it's believable.
>
> 73, Greg N6PM
>
> On 10/11/2021 5:41 PM, Dennis Younker NE6I wrote:
> > Does anyone know the answer to this?
> >
> >
> >
> > You've operated on a County line (good for two counties for other
> > people's awards). How do you configure TQSL to give credit for both
> > counties to the stations worked? The county field in TQSL is a drop
> > down box, so you cannot enter more than one county.
> >
> >
> >
> > --Dennis NE6I
> >
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