[VHFcontesting] LOTW uploads from wsjt-x adi files

[RT Clay]

ADIF does have a way to specify your grid square (since version 2), it is the tag MY_GRIDSQUARE. See

http://www.adif.org/adif227.htm
http://www.adif.org/307/ADIF_307.htm#QSO_Field_MY_GRIDSQUARE

Tor
N4OGW



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On Mon, 10/16/17, Marshall-K5QE <k5qe at k5qe.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] LOTW uploads from wsjt-x adi files
 To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
 Date: Monday, October 16, 2017, 9:11 PM
 
 Hi to everyone interested in this
 topic....I was told by someone that I 
 trust
 that the problem is that LOTW was implemented on the back of
 a 
 defective standard....namely, the .adi
 "standard".  That "standard" does 
 not have your grid in it, so LOTW has no idea
 where you were when the 
 contact was made. 
 The .adi standard works best when you are a fixed 
 station so that your grid does not change. 
 The Cabrillo files DO have 
 your grid in
 them, but apparently, you can't get LOTW to accept a 
 Cabrillo file(maybe it will, I don't
 know).  This is why if you operate 
 from 10
 grids, you have to separate the contacts into 10 different
 
 files, sign them, and submit 10 different
 submissions rather than one.  
 For me, this
 is an AAAAAAAaaaaaaaRGH!!!
 
 I have posted before that the ARRL has the
 clout to have announced that 
 there will now
 be a new .adi standard, we will call it .ad2 that solves 
 these problems, but they did not.  I have no
 idea what a .ad2 file 
 should look like, but
 it should not be too hard for the computer jocks 
 to work it out.
 
 To paraphrase Tim, "LOTW was not
 designed.....".
 
 73
 Marshall K5QE
 
 
 On 10/16/2017 4:49 PM, K7XC Tim Marek wrote:
 > Nope, that remains the standard as LOTW
 wasn't designed to easily implement
 >
 Multi Grid VHF Operations.
 >
 > I wish I knew code to implement an
 automatic parser that would separate all
 > the Grids automatically then submit them
 for each separately.
 >
 > In this day of lightning fast super
 computers on everyone's desk it remains
 > a mystery why such laborious manual tasks
 still exist when submitting a log
 > to
 LOTW.
 >
 > Then again
 it was created with an HF bias with VHF added as an
 > afterthought.
 >
 > 73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09jh... sk
 >
 > (PS: My log contains
 6M operations from over 127 different grids and I have
 > yet to manually sort all that out and
 submit it, so don't feel bad)
 >
 > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Mark
 Spencer <mark at alignedsolutions.com>
 > wrote:
 >
 >> Hi:
 >>
 >> I've been procrastinating about
 uploading my logs to the LOTW site (:
 >>
 >> Part of the
 reason I tend to put this task off is the need to go thru
 the
 >> go thru the .adi files on each
 of the computers I run wsjt-x on and
 >> generate separate .adi files for each
 grid that I have operated from.  Once
 >> I have these files I can then sign
 them and upload them to LOTW.
 >>
 >> Has anyone figured out any easy way to
 do this and if so would you mind
 >>
 sharing this with me ?
 >>
 >>
 >> Thanks and
 73
 >> Mark S
 >>
 VE7AFZ
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> mark at alignedsolutions.com
 >> 604 762 4099
 >>
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