Hi!

Some reminders about my call signs, and Logbook of the World...

1. If you worked WD9EWK at the Indiana/Michigan/Ohio border tripoint last Thursday (15 October), you would need to upload 3 QSO records to Logbook of the World, to represent this QSO in each of the states I stood in at that point. Each QSO record will need its QSO time to be at least 1 minute different than each of the others. Otherwise, QSO records with time differences of less than 1 minute will overwrite an existing QSO record you previously uploaded. Logbook of the World can handle contacts with one QSO record for a location in 2 or 4 grids, but cannot handle a similar situation with a single QSO record for QSOs on other boundaries (states, provinces, counties, or even countries).

2. Just like with point 1, an upload of 2 QSO records is needed to get confirmation with WD9EWK in both Indiana and Ohio last Saturday evening, again with the QSO times differing by at least one minute. As long as these QSO times are different, and are within 30 minutes +/- of the times I had in my QSO records for these locations, you should see QSLs appearing in LOTW.

3. Although I was slipping a little in the evening, I tried to correct myself on the air, and keep with using VA7EWK/3 as my call sign yesterday from Ontario. I used VA7EWK/3 on the air, and the Logbook of the World uploads I just did for those QSOs will show VA7EWK/3. Please do not ask me to make another QSO upload if you are looking for a confirmation with VA7EWK without the "/3".

The only time I may use VA7EWK without any additional indicators in Canada outside of British Columbia may be on packet/APRS. For APRS on Tuesday, I used WD9EWK-9 on both sides of the border as I drove around, but included both of my calls in the text sent with each of my position packets. This is what I did for my trip east of Windsor last year, and I put VK/WD9EWK in that text when I ran APRS in Australia a few years ago to ensured my station identified in accordance with Australian regulations.

73!

Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK