[WIQPmail] LoTW and Mobiles

[Andre Robitaille]

LOTW, QRZ, and other similar logs err on the side of caution. While prefixes and suffixes (usually the latter) get used by hams to randomly add things they feel like communicating, they are *required* when you operate from different countries. 


So a contesting system like LOTW wants to make sure that when you operate from Luxembourg, that you aren't getting DX contest credit when you're 4,000 miles closer to the countries you're contacting.




Andre
WT9X 



On March 15, 2021 at 11:45 PM, "Gary Mikitin, AF8A via WIQP-Mail" <wiqp-mail at warac.org> wrote:


Rolf - You are exactly correct.  Strip off the /county identifier before uploading, because LoTW would interpret AF8A/CUY as a unique callsign, completely different from just plain old AF8A.  In other words, to us humans, AF8A/CUY and  AF8A may look similar, and probably related, but a dumb computer cannot make that inference.  Better yet, from the horse’s mouth (aka from the LoTW website):



Mobile or Portable Operators
-

If you signed your call using /m or /p or some other identifier then you will have to request a signed certificate for the appended callsign.



73 de Gary, AF8A

On Mar 15, 2021, at 9:53 PM, Rolf Krogstad <rolf.krogstad at gmail.com> wrote:



A note about the way I upload mobile contacts to LOTW.
Even though I identified on the air in this contest as, for example, KE0TL / BAY ( call stroke county), when I upload the contacts to LOTW they go up in individual files with the callsign as only KE0TL, not KE0TL/cty.
So if the log you are uploading as the "stroke county" as a suffix to the callsign, it may not find a match in LOTW.
I am not quite sure how LOTW deals with that.
To be safe, strip the /BAY from a contact with KE0TL/BAY.


Does anyone know for certain how that works in LOTW?


tnx
Rolf  NR0T



On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:43 PM Gary Mikitin via WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail at warac.org> wrote:

Nice job by all of the mobiles on Sunday.  The pileups weren’t terribly unruly (at least as heard on my end) because each of you maintained discipline - if you replied to a partial call, you made sure to work that station, rather than reply to just any station which tried to muscle in.  That’s not easy to do when you have hordes of callers and weak signals - so congrats!

Further, I would like to thank the mobiles who create Station Locations in tQSL (Logbook of the World) for each county in which they operated, and then upload their logs with the appropriate Station Locations (1 per county).  Done correctly, the people who worked you will receive multiple QSL records, each containing the county (and possible, the grid square) from which you were actually operating.


73 de Gary, AF8A
Cleveland, OH

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