Ham2K Portable Logger (Android / Apple) for SOTA

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Do you have a paid QRZ.com subscription? This is required in order for lookups to include locator grid. See PoLo mapping

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As far as I understood you have 100 lookups per day for free. You can see that in your QRZ.com account details.
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But in the recent November release the center of the country is used for the QSO map when no detailed data on location (entered grid, summit ref, pota ref) are available.

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Yes, but itā€™s also limited to a subset of the data. Can see an example to demonstrate this in PoLo docs.

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I see. Thanks Steven.
Donā€™t care to much about the locators and the map so I am fine with the free account so far.
Information that is provided for free should be free and not behind a paywall. That why I prefere
https://www.hamqth.com/
offering a free API for integration.

73 Joe

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Interesting that it requires a paid subscription for that feature, it worked for months but Iā€™ve never given them a dime. Certainly not something Iā€™m willing to pay for monthly. Thanks for the responses.

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Perhaps the developer of Polo may wish add a an option in the app configuration page to disable the map display.

Iā€™m not interested in the Polo map function, I find the SOTA map attached to the SOTA log is adequate for my interests.

Andrew VK1AD

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I would not want to remove it. Not everything needs a black or white solution.

We are all free to use and enjoy it or ignore it.

If one needs an analyzer of adif data I can recommend
http://analyzer.adventureradio.de

73 Joe

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Enabling or disabling (not remove) a feature demonstrates an understanding of user preferences.

Andrew VK1AD

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I agree. But as a programmer of a software or tool there is a personal sweet spot of what makes sense and what not.
So I guess we will let Sebastian make up his mind and come up with a clever soluation.
Btw there is already an additional datasource included next to QRZ.com that would work well for calls from certain countries.

Thankful for what is available and curious to what the future developments will bring.

73 Joe

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Iā€™d be interested in HamQTH as well. Now SebastiĆ”n has added hooks for extra look ups, like HamDB, this should be easier to add now. Iā€™ll have to take a look at adding it.

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