[SCCC] Operating on a County Line - LOTW

[jnprice]

Ah so, obviously I haven't tried that.Should be "fixable?"73Jim K6ZH Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Dennis Younker NE6I <NE6I at cox.net> Date: 10/12/21  2:33 PM  (GMT-08:00) To: SCCC at contesting.com Subject: Re: [SCCC] Operating on a County Line - LOTW Jim, the difference is that in TQSL, one can enter multiple grids in thestation location. Not true though in the county field. The county field is adrop down box and only one can be selected at a time.--Dennis NE6I-----Original Message-----From: Jim Price <jnprice at pacbell.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 1:05 PMTo: 'Tree' <tree at kkn.net>; 'Dennis Younker NE6I' <NE6I at cox.net>Cc: SCCC at contesting.comSubject: RE: [SCCC] Operating on a County Line - LOTWNot to muddy the waters here, but LOTW handles multiple grid squares in oneQSO just fine - up to 4 grid squares if one happens to be at a confluence.Seems to me, conceptually, that county lines should be just like grid squarelines?  Just askin'.73 - Jim K6ZH-----Original Message-----From: SCCC <sccc-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of TreeSent: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 8:28 AMTo: Dennis Younker NE6I <NE6I at cox.net>Cc: SCCC at contesting.comSubject: Re: [SCCC] Operating on a County Line - LOTWI can perhaps add a small bit of data to this discussion.While you can't upload two QSOs that perfectly match (and maybe even thathave slight time differences) - you can upload two QSOs that match exceptfor your own callsign.I upload duplicate QSO entries all the time - one with N6TR and one withN6TR/7.  That way - regardless of how I am logged - the QSO will match oneor the other.  Then you can combine them for awards.This probably doesn't open the door to any easy solution for the county lineproblem - unless everyone decides to adopt some kind of definition of whatyou can put after the / sign to identify your county.  However, even withthat - it would be a pain getting callsign certificates for each county anddealing with all of the individual uploads.I know the ARRL keeps thinking about a major LOTW upgrade - and certainlytackling 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'sbelievable.>> 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> >> > _______________________________________________> > SCCC mailing list> > SCCC at contesting.com> > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/sccc>> _______________________________________________> SCCC mailing list> SCCC at contesting.com> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/sccc>> _______________________________________________> SCCC mailing list> SCCC at contesting.com> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/sccc>_______________________________________________SCCC mailing listSCCC at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/sccc_______________________________________________SCCC mailing listSCCC at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/sccc