Hello,
I have been suffering lately the lost of tools.adventureradio page where the log was uploaded and the contacts were beautifully drawn 
Any idea to do this as easy and beautiful?
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The SOTA database does it. Click the map icon alongside your activation to see contacts plotted.
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I would like to see a group of activations together, or even the whole log. In that case, I cannot use sotadata for It.
Thanks in advance
According to the info on the adventureradio page the log viewer should switch to a new map source by May. An then it will be available again. So your problem might be solved soon.
73 Joe
Ian, @m0trt, made a new one when the radio adventure site shutdown.
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SOTA Mapping Project, created by @DM1CM has been around for years (currently at https://www.sotamaps.org) and generates these good-looking maps of activations without any problem.
Sotamaps - for me at least - is superior to other QSO mapping tools, because
- S2S contacts are displayed prominently
- One does not have to upload his log anywhere, as all activation logs uploaded to Sotadata are automatically imported to Sotamaps and are available on the next day
- Aside from maps, there are activation statistics. I especially like the time charts plotting my band / mode changes over time of an activation, like here:
easy and beautiful?
Definitely!
I recommend you head to Activations - list and display on map SOTA activations - sotamaps.org and give it a try
73,
Marcin
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How nice to see people still using these options - thanks, Marcin, for the flowers. Those time charts were not the easiest of things to program!
It should be noted, however, that the sotamaps site will be removed / shut down this year, possibly quite soon - I know of one or two who will cheer loudly when that happens.
Itâs good to know that other options will be available to the discerning user.
Rob
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Looks nice. I wonder why Ian has limited uploads only to ADIF file formats; why not also support SOTA-standard CSV files?
Iâm sure Ian could add it if requested but I feel like, these days, adif is most common or their program exports adif. As a new ham I see no reason to use csv over adif.
Also Ianâs web app is for anything, not specifically sota.
Thatâs a great shame, zero cheering,âŚwhat about all the gpx routes that have been added? Admittedly I only view them via sotlas but they are so useful.
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Fair enough.
Not sure about that - perhaps Andrew @VK3ARR might shed some light on that. It might be that either he will port the existing code (which has gotten a little buggy over time) to the server, or cook something up himself, or maybe Manuel at sotlas. Itâs not so difficult to do.
I wouldnât rely on that timeline. And the features will be transferred into SOTAData.
Iâve got most of the GPX handling stuff done from an API perspective, and I will start to move features over as I get time but the server itself will go away but not the mapping function
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Yep, it just hadnât occurred to me to support CSV as I only really use ADIF. The tool is only a month old so still developing rapidly, Iâm happy to add CSV, Cabrillo, whatever folks want.
Glad to hear the Sotamaps.org functionality is sticking around, even iif itâs in a different form. Iâm not much of a SOTA op but the direct access to all your stats via SOTA APIs make it hard to beat for that!
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Hi folks, just a quick update to say that I have added support for SOTA CSV files to my tool.
It can also now query the SOTA API for a summit grid locator when it sees one. This will not take precedence over a grid that is explicit in an ADIF file, but it will take precedence over looking up the operatorâs home QTH from QRZ.com.
Hopefully the new features will help! 73
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Thanks Ian, @M0TRT for all the effort to maintain an updated and functional alternative.
In my case I have tried to upload an adif log from the Ham2k logger app and it does not find the correspondents grid correctly.
No problem, and I will help if I can! Are you able to share the ADIF or some more information about it, e.g. what info is already in the ADIF, whether itâs a SOTA reference it should be getting the grid from or QRZ.com, whether youâve entered QRZ credentials and have an XML subscription, etc?
Here is the .adi file. Itâs a merge of one week of activities. Maybe thatâs the problem.
Thanks in advance!
It looks OK to me, out of 184 QSOs it found grids for 177. The other 7 are probably users with no QRZ.com page or they havenât set a grid on their QRZ.com profile.
Does this match what you see, or do you see no markers at all? If you see no markers at all, open the âOnline Lookupâ section and make sure you are logged into QRZ.com and you have a paid subscription:
If you would rather not pay for QRZ.com, I am hoping to add support for HamQTH as well soon, but unfortunately it doesnât have as many users.
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Now with HamQTH everything ok! Thanks a lot Ian
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