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AD1C wrote some software that makes these log changes easy.</div>
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ADIF County Conversion<br>
<a href="https://software.ad1c.us/ADIF_County/" target="_blank">https://software.ad1c.us/ADIF_County/</a><br>
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This program is useful for converting an ADIF contest log containing<br>
county abbreviations, into an ADIF file that contains county names as<br>
per the ADIF specification. It also removes the /county identifier from the mobile callsign.</div>
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You can then upload this new ADIF file to LOTW or your everyday logging program.<br>
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Split ADIF Log by Transmitted QTH<br>
<a href="https://software.ad1c.us/ADIF_Split/" target="_blank">https://software.ad1c.us/ADIF_Split/</a><br>
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This program is useful for splitting up an ADIF contest log by<br>
transmitted QTH. This is useful for mobiles/rovers who would need to<br>
sign each separate county operation properly for upload to Logbook of<br>
the World.<br>
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73, Mark KB9S<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail-bounces@warac.org> on behalf of Gary Mikitin, AF8A via WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail@warac.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 16, 2021 2:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rolf Krogstad <rolf.krogstad@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Gary Mikitin, AF8A <af8a@mangobay.com>; Wisconsin QSO Party Reflector <wiqp-mail@warac.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WIQPmail] LoTW and Mobiles</font>
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<div dir="auto">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):
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<a href="http://www.arrl.org/additional-calls#" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; vertical-align:baseline; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(13,82,142)">Mobile or Portable Operators<span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; vertical-align:baseline; left:0px; top:0px">-</span></a></p>
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If you signed your call using /m or /p or some other identifier then you will have to request a <a href="http://www.arrl.org/files/file/LoTW%20Instructions/TQSL%202_0%202013/Secodary%20operations/Requesting%20Additional%20Call%20Sgin%20Certificates.pdf" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-size:13.910965919494629px; vertical-align:baseline; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(68,102,187); font-weight:bold"><strong style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; vertical-align:baseline"><u style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; vertical-align:baseline">signed
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<div dir="ltr">73 de Gary, AF8A</div>
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On Mar 15, 2021, at 9:53 PM, Rolf Krogstad <rolf.krogstad@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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<div>A note about the way I upload mobile contacts to LOTW.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>I am not quite sure how LOTW deals with that.</div>
<div>To be safe, strip the /BAY from a contact with KE0TL/BAY.</div>
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<div>Does anyone know for certain how that works in LOTW?</div>
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<div>tnx</div>
<div>Rolf NR0T<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:43 PM Gary Mikitin via WIQP-Mail <<a href="mailto:wiqp-mail@warac.org">wiqp-mail@warac.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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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!<br>
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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.<br>
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73 de Gary, AF8A<br>
Cleveland, OH<br>
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