[VHFcontesting] [VHF] Uploading VHF+ Logs from Multiple Grid Expeditions...

[Peter Laws]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 23:46, Phil Wells, AF6AV <af6av at philwells.net> wrote:

> Then on the other end, you¹ve got to make VUCC Award Accounts using
> variations of call signs as above plus, possibly, each grid activated.


As near as I can figure it, the "Award Accounts" on the LoTW sites are
only needed if you want to view them in proper context on the site.
If you are going to submit for VUCC it will also, I believe, prevent
you from submitting the "wrong" QSOs for credit.

Further, any locations within the 200-km "circle" can be combined for
your award account purposes (and doesn't affect the "other guy" at
all).

LoTW does require a certificate for every self-assigned designator (/P
/R /W7), however, and re-uploading a log signed with a different
certificate will create a "zombie" in the LoTW database[1].

Every certificate needs one or more locations set up in TQSL.
Re-uploading a QSL signed with the same certificate but a different
location does NOT create a zombie and simply updates the grid loc.

I'm fortunate that 1) I've never been a rover and 2) I use the DXLab
Suite to track the two certs and multiple locations that I do have!





[1] - It would be nice if we could all agree that unless a
self-assigned indicator changed a stations DXCC entity, that we would
all log it WITHOUT the designator for LoTW purposes.


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