[VHFcontesting] Logging Rovers vs the log checking robots

[Keith Morehouse]

Bruce, you are one of the few callsigns with /R that I have always matched
in LoTW.  Thanks for having both certificates !

Same with WB8BZK (or, should I say WB8BZK/R...) !

Jay W9RM
DM58 CO

Keith J Morehouse
Managing Partner
Calmesa Partners G.P.
Olathe, CO

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Bruce Richardson <w9fz at w9fz.com> wrote:

> Hi Jay and all:
>
> As a rover, I went ahead and got a "child" certificate for "W9FZ" as
> "W9FZ/R".  Personally, I never upload VHF+ logs with the plain callsign but
> always with the /R.  I will say that in HF State QSO parties, I've uploaded
> with plain, /M, and /XXX where XXX is a 3-letter abbreviation for the
> county.  Of the successful LOTW QSL's (in those QSO parties), about 33%
> comes from each version of my callsign.
>
> There is another more tedious reason that many rovers never upload (or
> successfully upload) for LOTW is that, really, for each grid, another
> "Location" has to be built.
>
> Since I revisit rover spots over the years, I'm able to re-use some of the
> locations I've built.  I build the locations in TQSL.  They have a unique
> name that I'll recognize, the grid, and I even do the county and the two
> zone numbers correctly.  I believe county and zones are optional.  Since I
> go to the level of detail of county and zones, Sometimes I have to build
> different locations within the same grid.  A rover who operates "on the
> fly"
> could build locations but it would never really be accurate at the county
> level.
>
> I like LOTW and I like supplying grids as a rover.  I like going the extra
> tedious mile and making locations and signing just portions of the entire
> log with the appropriate location/grid.
>
> 73
> Bruce Richardson W9FZ/R
>
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