eQSL.cc Forum
Help!  eQSL.cc Home  Forums Home  Search  Login 
Viewing User Profile for: KG6YJ Jun Yang
About Contact
Joined: Oct 24, 2021 03:12 AM
Last Post: Sep 16, 2022 04:39 AM
Last Visit: Sep 20, 2022 06:25 PM
Website:  
Location:
Interests:


Send Private Message
Post Statistics
KG6YJ Jun Yang has contributed to 4 posts out of 11719 total posts (0.03%) in 1,071 days (0.00 posts per day).

20 Most recent posts:

Thanks for the information, OM's,

So the solution is to use a /P call sign to operate and do logging, the log will have STATION_CALLSIGN = KG6YJ/P for example, then generate sub-accounts for each different activation (QTH & dates) and upload log into a dedicated sub-account. Is my understanding correct?

If then, to upload that portable log to LoTW, you'll need another certificate for the /P call sign, isn't it?

In another word, previous/older logs without /P suffix doesn't fit eQSL system well, is that correct?

Thanks and 73,

KG6YJ Jun Yang

Mobile with many QTH's » Muitiple QTH's Sep 16, 2022 03:58 AM (Total replies: 6)

Good suggestion, similar to the way how LoTW handles certificate / call-sign / QTH's.
Hope eQSL can do improvement on this to benefit more hams and becomes more popular.
Maybe it is a database structure change which is not easy...

KG6YJ Jun Yang

Mobile with many QTH's » multiple QTHs for POTA activations Sep 16, 2022 03:40 AM (Total replies: 2)

Thank you F6DKQ,

It sounds like in order to fit eQSL system, before I do any mobile operation such as POTA, I should decide to use a KG6YJ/P or KG6YJ/8 (or other digits) call sign in my POTA QSO's, and register that KG6YJ/P as my attached account. I can define different QTH's for different POTA activations (different time period) using that portable call sign, each one may have different grid number. Is this the way that eQSL system prefers hams to do?

But there're a few things:

1. Software compatibility. Sometimes I use my Android phone (with FT8 app) + my little QDX + antenna to do POTA activation. That FT8 app doesn't support /P call sign well, in that case, regular call sign is preferred.

2. Too late for my previous POTA logs, which all use my regular call sign without /P suffix. Maybe this /P idea is good for my future mobile operations. :)

3. In eQSL forum I see somebody mentioned that LoTW handles this type of scenario pretty well: a certificate maps to a call sign, which can have different locations mapping to it, when uploading logs, pick up a location then upload. Maybe eQSL can learn from LoTW in this regard? Many hams will be happy and eQSL will become more popular.

BTW, I've detached those 2 attached accounts (one starting from 25-Nov-21, another starting from 26-Nov-21), and extended my main account 4088home's end date, i.e. back to before. Is there a way to delete those 2 detached accounts?

( It seems this post should belong to " »Forums Index »Member Discussions »Mobile with many QTH's " category, could you please move it to there? )

Thank you and 73,
KG6YJ

KG6YJ Jun Yang

Mobile with many QTH's » multiple QTHs for POTA activations Aug 10, 2022 06:06 PM (Total replies: 2)

Hello,

My home QTH is in grid CM97ch, and I did quite a few POTA activations at various QTHs, their logs have accurate QTH grid information such as DM23cr for Joshua Tree National park. I uploaded by combined logs and got warnings saying their grid numbers don't match my home grid.

Without a better eQSL.cc solution (automatic accepting my POTA logs' grid numbers), I tried to split my account into multiple ones, thinking of this:

home, POTA1, home_after_POTA1, POTA2, home_after_POTA2, ......

which is tedious. But when I worked on my POTA1 attached account, eQSL.cc website doesn't let me change my grid number to the correct DM23cr for that POTA activation. Can this be improved by eQSL.cc?

Or even better, automatically accept the grid numbers in my POTA logs?

Any other solutions?

Thanks and 73,
KG6YJ

KG6YJ Jun Yang