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How to log satellite contacts for ADIF
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Young Nick wrote:
Satellite and other repeater qso's are invalid for any award purposes Uhm... not true. 73 ... WA7AA -- Anti-spam measu look me up on qrz.com if you need to reply directly |
Young Nick wrote:
Satellite and other repeater qso's are invalid for any award purposes Uhm... not true. 73 ... WA7AA -- Anti-spam measu look me up on qrz.com if you need to reply directly |
You don't know what you are talking about...
There are all sorts of satellite awards, VUCC, DXCC, WAC, WAS, etc... 73, Drew KO4MA "Young Nick" wrote in message ... I'm using AALog2, but I think this would apply to any logging program. How are you supposed to log split band satellite contacts? I did it by using 144/29 or 432/144 in the band, but they don't validate when exported as ADIF for sending to LOTW. Satellite and other repeater qso's are invalid for any award purposes and the cards are therefore pretty useless. You have not been in direct RF contact with the station in question, so there is in fact no qso to confirm. Waste of time and effort, mate. Young Nick |
You don't know what you are talking about...
There are all sorts of satellite awards, VUCC, DXCC, WAC, WAS, etc... 73, Drew KO4MA "Young Nick" wrote in message ... I'm using AALog2, but I think this would apply to any logging program. How are you supposed to log split band satellite contacts? I did it by using 144/29 or 432/144 in the band, but they don't validate when exported as ADIF for sending to LOTW. Satellite and other repeater qso's are invalid for any award purposes and the cards are therefore pretty useless. You have not been in direct RF contact with the station in question, so there is in fact no qso to confirm. Waste of time and effort, mate. Young Nick |
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:03:09 -0000, "Young Nick"
wrote (with possible editing): I'm using AALog2, but I think this would apply to any logging program. How are you supposed to log split band satellite contacts? I did it by using 144/29 or 432/144 in the band, but they don't validate when exported as ADIF for sending to LOTW. Satellite and other repeater qso's are invalid for any award purposes and the cards are therefore pretty useless. You have not been in direct RF contact with the station in question, so there is in fact no qso to confirm. Waste of time and effort, mate. Young Nick Well, my last response didn't make it to the newsgroup, so I'll try again. Basically, I agreed with the others who said there certainly are awards for satellite qso's, but even if there weren't, the question still remains: What is the proper method of logging satellite qso's so they can be converted to ADIF? Thanks, -- 73, Larry W1HJF |
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:05:40 GMT, L. M. Rappaport
wrote: Well, my last response didn't make it to the newsgroup, so I'll try again. Basically, I agreed with the others who said there certainly are awards for satellite qso's, but even if there weren't, the question still remains: What is the proper method of logging satellite qso's so they can be converted to ADIF? Thanks, There isn't any proper method. ADIF only supports one frequency field, so you can't save uplink/downlink frequencies unless you do it in another field. If your logging program supports the field SAT NAME or SAT MODE, use those. But don't be surprised if not many programs do support those fields. The ADIF spec is he http://www.hosenose.com/adif/adif.html 73, Jim KH2D |
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:05:40 GMT, L. M. Rappaport
wrote: Well, my last response didn't make it to the newsgroup, so I'll try again. Basically, I agreed with the others who said there certainly are awards for satellite qso's, but even if there weren't, the question still remains: What is the proper method of logging satellite qso's so they can be converted to ADIF? Thanks, There isn't any proper method. ADIF only supports one frequency field, so you can't save uplink/downlink frequencies unless you do it in another field. If your logging program supports the field SAT NAME or SAT MODE, use those. But don't be surprised if not many programs do support those fields. The ADIF spec is he http://www.hosenose.com/adif/adif.html 73, Jim KH2D |
wrote in message ... On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:05:40 GMT, L. M. Rappaport wrote: Well, my last response didn't make it to the newsgroup, so I'll try again. Basically, I agreed with the others who said there certainly are awards for satellite qso's, but even if there weren't, the question still remains: What is the proper method of logging satellite qso's so they can be converted to ADIF? Thanks, There isn't any proper method. ADIF only supports one frequency field, so you can't save uplink/downlink frequencies unless you do it in another field. If your logging program supports the field SAT NAME or SAT MODE, use those. But don't be surprised if not many programs do support those fields. The ADIF spec is he http://www.hosenose.com/adif/adif.html 73, Jim KH2D Put your transmit frequency in the frequency field and put the receive frequency in any available blank field that won't confuse you. The comment field would be appropriate as you can then indicate not only the frequency but that it was a satellite contact. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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