[SCCC] Operating on a County Line - LOTW

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Following this thread begs the question, "How would you need county confirmations on LoTW?"  County awards have no access to LoTW.  73, Kurt W6PH

In a message dated 10/12/2021 5:52:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, danki6x at socal.rr.com writes: 
For an LoTW match the time has to be "within 30 minutes".  But, TQSL is
set-up to prevent uploading the same QSO over and over again so if the same
QSO data is used it will not let you upload again.  Do not know the time
difference needed.  And since I too am not an expert, I wonder if you upload
the same QSO with a different station location whether it would allow.  You
will have to use 2 station locations so you might try and see what happens.
You would need to code some way to edit all the times in the ADIF, in mass,
if it does not work.

Dan KI6X

-----Original Message-----
From: SCCC <sccc-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Dennis Younker NE6I
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 7:41 AM
To: SCCC at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [SCCC] Operating on a County Line - LOTW

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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