ADIF does have a way to specify your grid square (since version 2), it is the
tag MY_GRIDSQUARE. See
http://www.adif.org/adif227.htm
http://www.adif.org/307/ADIF_307.htm#QSO_Field_MY_GRIDSQUARE
Tor
N4OGW
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On Mon, 10/16/17, Marshall-K5QE <k5qe@k5qe.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] LOTW uploads from wsjt-x adi files
To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Date: Monday, October 16, 2017, 9:11 PM
Hi to everyone interested in this
topic....I was told by someone that I
trust
that the problem is that LOTW was implemented on the back of
a
defective standard....namely, the .adi
"standard". That "standard" does
not have your grid in it, so LOTW has no idea
where you were when the
contact was made.
The .adi standard works best when you are a fixed
station so that your grid does not change.
The Cabrillo files DO have
your grid in
them, but apparently, you can't get LOTW to accept a
Cabrillo file(maybe it will, I don't
know). This is why if you operate
from 10
grids, you have to separate the contacts into 10 different
files, sign them, and submit 10 different
submissions rather than one.
For me, this
is an AAAAAAAaaaaaaaRGH!!!
I have posted before that the ARRL has the
clout to have announced that
there will now
be a new .adi standard, we will call it .ad2 that solves
these problems, but they did not. I have no
idea what a .ad2 file
should look like, but
it should not be too hard for the computer jocks
to work it out.
To paraphrase Tim, "LOTW was not
designed.....".
73
Marshall K5QE
On 10/16/2017 4:49 PM, K7XC Tim Marek wrote:
> Nope, that remains the standard as LOTW
wasn't designed to easily implement
>
Multi Grid VHF Operations.
>
> I wish I knew code to implement an
automatic parser that would separate all
> the Grids automatically then submit them
for each separately.
>
> In this day of lightning fast super
computers on everyone's desk it remains
> a mystery why such laborious manual tasks
still exist when submitting a log
> to
LOTW.
>
> Then again
it was created with an HF bias with VHF added as an
> afterthought.
>
> 73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09jh... sk
>
> (PS: My log contains
6M operations from over 127 different grids and I have
> yet to manually sort all that out and
submit it, so don't feel bad)
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Mark
Spencer <mark@alignedsolutions.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I've been procrastinating about
uploading my logs to the LOTW site (:
>>
>> Part of the
reason I tend to put this task off is the need to go thru
the
>> go thru the .adi files on each
of the computers I run wsjt-x on and
>> generate separate .adi files for each
grid that I have operated from. Once
>> I have these files I can then sign
them and upload them to LOTW.
>>
>> Has anyone figured out any easy way to
do this and if so would you mind
>>
sharing this with me ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks and
73
>> Mark S
>>
VE7AFZ
>>
>>
>>
>> mark@alignedsolutions.com
>> 604 762 4099
>>
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