[WIQPmail] WIQP and LOTW

[Michael Johnson]

Well for better or worse I uploaded to LOTW using my main call sign with no
trailing /m or /county.  I took the suggestion from above and parsed the
ADI file into separate counties and then set up county QTH locations in my
LOTW profile.

There was quite a number of QSL's waiting for me so at least for those
folks, I did right by them.

I also updated my QRZ profile and put a note at the top about what I was
doing.

This is as far as I'm going to go.  If there is a problem with a busted Q
or some other issue, someone can sure find me via email and we can figure
it out.

Good topic and timely too.  I was just scratching my head trying to figure
out what to do when the original post dropped into my inbox.  Nice to know
I'm not the only one.

Thanks all.

73

--MJ, WO9B


On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Bruce Richardson <w9fz at w9fz.com> wrote:

> Heh, heh.  In the MN and IA QSO Parties, I tend to only activate 8
> counties in a weekend.
>
> I am the only one I know crazy enough to do as much as I do getting my
> mobile logs into LOTW.
>
> First, one needs a child certificate for callsign/m . Go ahead and apply
> for that with ARRL. Since it's a child certificate, it gets approved
> automatically and issued within minutes.
>
> One "could" apply for child certificates for each of the /XXX activated.
> Any beyond 8 takes human blessing/intervention on Monday morning at ARRL.
> I do this but it's not completely necessary.
>
> The big key is to BUILD locations for each county.  I build them once
> under my root call.  Then I build a 2nd set of locations under the child /m
> callsign.  I'm not sure it's necessary to build the locations keyed to a
> callsign.
>
> But it IS necessary to use the different locations when signing the .adi
> logs for different counties.  I actually sign my .adi's three times each
> because I do have /XXX certificates as well.
>
> Glad to discuss with anyone if you want more detail.
>
> I also don't operate on the fly. So while I'm in a county, I'm also in a
> non-changing GRID, and CQ and ITU zone.  I know grid, ITUzone, and CQzone
> are not required. But I determine them for each of my locations.
>
> 73
> Bruce Richardson W9FZ
>
>
> On 3/19/2016 3:41 PM, wiqp-mail-request at warac.org wrote:
> <snip>
>
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