[VHFcontesting] LoTW for Rovers

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Wed Jul 19 14:29:49 EDT 2006


Tom Carney wrote:
> Tom Carney wrote:
> 
>> Another problem you will encounter.  Some people will log a rover with 
>> out the /r.  This results in a mis-match in LOTW, IE not a confirmed 
>> QSL.  With eQSL you see these QSO as un-confirmed contacts.  While I was 
>> uploading to eQSL, I got almost as many QSL without the /r as with.  I 
>> suspect the same thing occurs with LOTW but have no way of knowing.
>>
>> 73,  Tom  K6EU aka K6EU/r
>>
>>
> 
> Received a note from Paul, AA4ZZ indicating that LOTW should match up a 
> /r QSO record with a non /r one.  I checked and he is correct, my bad. 
> So if you upload from a /r certificate LOTW will match QSO submitted to 
> your non /r call.
> 
> 73,  Tom  K6EU

Completely missed requirements in the database design specification, 
would be the  root-cause problem here.

Sounds like time for Version 2.

Nate


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