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Re: Future plans


 

Greetings,

I have added an option on the ADIF export screen to allow /M to be
appended for mobile contacts.

I think the /P is a bit more messy. a couple of years ago one of our
members sent out a huge pile of cards and he had his call sign appended
with /P5. Another question arose about DX, specifically Canada. How should
these be reported in ADIF



Dean Davis, N7XG

-------- Original Message --------
From: "rjlorenzen@... [N7XGlogsupport]"
<N7XGlogsupport@...>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 4:08 PM
To: N7XGlogsupport@...
Subject: [N7XGlogsupport] Re: Future plans

Thanks for the feedback, Johnny. I haven't gone far enough along to see
much of a pattern for how people sign mobile, etc. You might consider
adding a duplicate qso without the /M suffix; it might up your match rate.
In all but one of my matched qsos with mobiles, they used just their base
callsigns.


As to ARRL not believing that I can be in two places at the same time,
they do accept our cards and we DO believe that! It is possible to get two
or three matches from state lines or tri-states. It is only neccessary for
the fixed station to upload duplicate qsos at slightly different times (a
minute difference works), else the records just overwrite each other. The
mobile just does a separate upload for each state (which is normal), but
again with the qsos at slightly different times. This gets more interesting
with mobile to mobile tri-states, however.


RJ, NA0L

---In N7XGlogsupport@..., <ki4wcq52@...> wrote :

RJ,

Yes, my thought was for LoTW. I log a station the way he signs his call.
If he says mobile, I log /M. Likewise if he says portable, it is /P or if
he says stoke 3 I log /3. Hopefully he has made a certifcate for the way he
signs on the air.

If the op uses LoTW, I usually get a match on the call. I have no control
on where he indicates he is, that is determined by the certificate he used
to sign the log...which means he would need multiple mobile or portable
certificates for the state visited and signs with the right one.

I have several LoTW confirms from W9OO/M and KT8D/M or W8JMF/M, to name a
few, from various states they operated from. Also, have them from no CCN
ops who signed their call and was recorded in that manner.

I will concede that not a lot of CCN folks use LoTW even operating from
home, let alone mobile or portable.

A check would work ok as you suggested.

The reason for the difficulty you note with state lines is that the
position of ARRL is that you can't be in two places at the same time.

73,
Johnny KI4WCQ

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