I would like to propose we have fields to support SOTA incorporated into the ADIF standard. Think SOTA is mature and mainstream enough for such recognition.
I personally use the COMMENT fields in my logging software to record details but would like to see native support. ADIF has yet to recognize SOTA fields. It looks fairly straight forward, introduce two fields modelled on the existing IOTA fields,
SOTA a String being the contacted station’s SOTA summit designator (Activator)
MY_SOTA a String being the logging station’s SOTA summit designator (Chaser or Activator for S2S)
the format AAA/RRR-YYY, where
AAA is the association designator {VK3, G}
RRR-YYY is the summit designator, where RRR = region and YYY number. (VC-001)
and a Award Enumeration of SOTA
Is anyone else looking into this ? Any input as to fields and data format would be appreciated.
Alain F6ENO has an ADIF<>SOTA tool. I think Mario DC7CCC has something as well. You should find links to them if you use the search feature to scan the archived threads.
Like Perl code. Will have look at on weekend to see if I can get it running on my Mac as will address a short term problem. Going forward having fields in the ADIF standard to support SOTA will allow logging software developers (both online and PC) to support natively.
I think I’ve found the group where changes to the ADIF standard are explored so will see what the response is.
Good idea and I support it too. I guess all the others in the SOTA community support also the idea of adding the SOTA fields to the next version of ADIF.
It would be great to have SOTA fields defined in ADIF (and I am willing to bet they would get used a whole lot more than the IOTA fields). Good luck in pursuing that!
I also wanted to mention that I have a Mac drag-n-drop application for parsing ADIF files for upload to SOTA. It has been updated to output the v2 database format and will produce activator or chaser/s2s csv files. If anyone is interested in being a guinea pig, my email is listed on QRZ.
Joined the gropup where the ADIF standard is discussed and went searching the archive for references to SOTA to ensure not missing something and it appears the proposed ADIF Version 3.0.4 release will have support for SOTA,
SOTA SOTARef the contacted station’s International SOTA Reference.
MY_SOTA SOTARef the logging station’s International SOTA Reference.
SOTARef a sequence of Characters representing an International SOTA Reference. The sequence comprises:
• an ITU prefix
• if applicable, a SOTA subdivision
• a / Character
• a SOTA Reference Number
Examples:
W2/WE-003
G/LD-003