[amsat-bb] Re: VUCC & LoTW

15 Jan 2011

      Hi Jeff,
I had a similar experience but not the volume you have.
I found that some of my contacts did not have the proper
SAT name that the TQSL program was looking for and
I edited the file and wound up with about 15 more contacts.
Just a thought..
73,
Joe
KI4TZ
Jeff Yanko wrote:
...
Hi Ted and all,
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.  With LoTW VUCC now active 
it will hopefully get those with electronic logging to upload their 
satellite QSO's, even better, to get those with paper logs to convert to 
electronic logging, go back and enter QSO's from the previous couple years, 
to take advantage of this service.  After seeing this disappointing results, 
I know we, in the Amateur Satellite community, can do better.
73,
Jeff  WB3JFS
Las Vegas, NV
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted" k7trkradio@charter.net
To: "'Ted'" k7trkradio@charter.net; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 6:02 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: VUCC & LoTW
...
Boy, after playing with this on LOTW, we may need an 'owners manual'. I
created a 'VUCC Satellite' account and uploaded my entire HRD Logbook:
Prior to the upload, I added a 'propagation' field to the log and did a 
bulk
edit to add 'sat' to each FM contact in my log (you can choose another 
field
to search, but since I don't log anything on FM other than the sats that
works for me).
Uploaded the log to LOTW. Nothing shows under the 'VUCC Satellite' 
account.
(note: when I created just a pure VUCC account, several contacts showed up
as FM contacts)
So, Im guessing we need to find out which ADIF fields are necessary in a 
log
upload to make the LOTW happy...
THAT is above my pay grade, so I hope to see some good answers from the
group when I wake up tomorrow..
73, Ted, K7TRK
FYI.from LoTW site:
"Jan 13, 2011: VUCC award support is now live -- Under the Awards tab you
will find a VUCC button.  The VUCC http://www.arrl.org/vucc  is ARRL's
award recognizing VHF, UHF, and SHF work and counts Maidenhead grid
squares."
Is this a good thing or ???  do we need to set up anything different in an
HRD Logbook to make this work ??  questions,   questions..
73, Ted K7TRK
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