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Re: [VHFcontesting] VUCC Card Checking Question

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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] VUCC Card Checking Question
From: "Jim Forsyth" <mail@jimforsyth.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:39:25 -0800
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That's odd, your call sign changed from KB7DQH to K6EU.

Jim

> Jim Forsyth wrote:
>> Don't you have to locate the QSO in the log so that you can confirm the 
>> QSO
>> whether or not he supplied your grid?
>>
>> Jim, AF6O
>
> Yes, but my logging program was not picking up the from grid when it
> imported the QSO from the contest logging program.  So I would have to
> load the rover log in the contest program to figure it out.  Once I
> figured out how to get the regular logging program to import the from
> grid, it was no longer a problem.
>
> It's still difficult to upload to LOTW after a rover operation.  Only
> way I see is to break my log into multiple files by from grid.  Then
> upload each one using a different QTH.
>
> At least LOTW is far better than eQSL.  Their multiple QTH feature is
> almost impossible to use for a rover.
>
> 73,
>
> Tom K6EU aka K6EU/r
>
>
>>
>>> Still doesn't hurt to use the 6 digit grid...  My biggest "pet peeve" 
>>> when
>>> receiving QSL's, especially after a contest rove, is the sending station 
>>> 9
>>> times out of 10 neglects to indicate which grid _I_  was in when the QSO
>>> was made.  In order to properly confirm, I have to dig thru several 
>>> pages
>>> of contest log in the hopes of finding the QSO so the person sending me
>>> the card gets credit for the appropriate grid square!!!!  More to the
>>> point, these usually are SASE, some even have prefilled QSO information,
>>> requiring me to sign and return...  BUT without that critical bit of
>>> information, it sits in the QSL "inbox" until I can "getaroundtuit"...
>>>
>>> Something to think about when the portable guys go out to light up those
>>> rare ones!!!
>>> Eric
>>> KB7DQH
>>
>>
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