Hi Jeff!
I got the LoTW VUCC set up without a problem. I had already uploaded 545 satellite QSOs over the past couple of years so they were waiting to be used. Well, after getting everything in order I have a grand total of.....21 matches, or 3.85% of my satellite log.
<snip> After seeing this disappointing results, I know we, in the Amateur Satellite community, can do better.
I don't know if I would call it "disappointing", considering that LOTW just got set up for VUCC. Except for other awards like WAS or DXCC, VHF/UHF operators (including us on the satellites) really had no incentive to upload anything to LOTW. ARRL has been talking about adding VUCC support to LOTW for a while, and setting target dates to roll that out over the past couple of years - then seeing the dates slip. I can't fault anyone for not putting those QSOs into LOTW right away. It will happen, and I count myself as someone who will get their satellite QSOs loaded into LOTW. Be patient...
One thing that hasn't been mentioned a lot with the recent changes to LOTW is the ability to define a station location in more than one grid. This was not possible in the past, but now you can add up to 4 grids for a station location. This is huge for someone like me, who has thousands of grid-boundary QSOs that would have required extra QSO records to properly represent those QSOs in the past. QSOs done on other boundary lines (county, state/province, or national) still require multiple QSO records in LOTW from both stations to properly represent those QSOs. That is a manageable number for me and my log (around 100 QSOs out of almost 10000 on the satellites on those other types of boundaries).
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/