SOTAData3 (Part 2)

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I was surprised and pleased to find that I had achieved a "Lazenby " badge when I reviewed my entry on the database.
Will they be available as merchandise at the shop ?
Andy
MM7MOX

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No, but you now have permission to stow a Walther PPK in your backpack. :joy:

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I was pleased to see in someoneā€™s screen shot or video clip above that he had earned a Pi badge. I am going to search for a summit with a 314 number just to get one of those. Might have to go to ZL3.

73 Andrew VK1DA/VK2DA

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Iā€™ve played with a PPK but the owner had no ammo so we couldnā€™t shoot it.

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Firefox says ā€œError code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAINā€

Chrome complains about a lack of HTTPS even when given an HTTPS URL, so I guess itā€™s just handling the domain mismatch differently.

Is the relevant HTTPS certificate for WWW.sotadata.org.uk (as that seems to not complain).

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Only just spotted this entire thread - a big congrats to Andrew VK3ARR and his star testing team for a really great job!

One question - in the screen shot posted by Ed DD5LP of the Tags dialog, what does the term ā€œtrailheadā€ actually mean? Is it a carpark or other point where one starts to walk up to the summit, or the very last part of a trail/track before it disappears and one has to beat through dense brush/forest? - I think the formerā€¦

Rob

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Is there an e badge?

An i badge (or j if you are an engineer) will be a challenging one to get.

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Trailhead is the term used mostly in the U.S. describing the start of the hike. Can be a carpark, cable-car station, train stop or what ever people typically use to do this summit.
Of course there are summit with very different options from via-ferrata to ā€˜normalā€™ routes.
So the tags will represent options.

73 Joe

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Itā€™s probably stale DNS at your upstream network provider. You could see what happens in a private browser window to see if that changes anything but I doubt it if it is DNS. The DNS entry will probably expire some point soon.

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It may have been the American Pi which is for activating on 3/14, which is 14th of March for the rest of the world that uses a normal and sane date format.

Certainly will be a hard one to get but there might also be potential in VK4 (if you arenā€™t willing to fly to I or ZS)

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Thanks for the kudos - itā€™s a Newtonian shoulder-standing exercise where I get to build on/steal from great software that came before like SMP, sotastars, sotlas, and others but itā€™s nice to finally have it live :slight_smile:

Trailhead is the start of the trail, I have seen it becoming popular as an expression in VK too a bit, so I probably went dialectical there!

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Yes, not such a common term in British English, but after Brexit, who cares?

Another thought (I havenā€™t looked ) - is there a tags dialog for antenna opportunities on a summit? You know the kind of thing:

  • Plenty of room for big wire antennas
  • Restricted room for wire antennas
  • Room on rocky summit for a vertical
  • Room only for HT
  • etcā€¦

Or tags for the type of ground to be expected ā€¦ and Iā€™m sure others could come up with moreā€¦

Rob

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I saw someone had a Pi badge when checking a problem report and immediately thought ā€œoooh I want one of thoseā€.

But for me, the best thing about the badges is so far nobody knows what the total set of badges comprises. Unless you can look in the source that is. I could do that but actually the fact I may do an activation and log it and then find a new badge in my stats page is just too cool to spoil by checking the list now.

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ā€¦could have Pi Day on 22nd July :wink:

ā€¦and I see ones in my Chaser collection and wonder how few (and which) summits Iā€™d have to activate to get the equivalent in my Activator collection. :wink:

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Some such suggestions were made by the team but, not knowing which ones appealed to the developer (vk3arr) we will have to see what badges pop up in the future. A bit like Easter eggs.

We really should have something representing the log of 2, 0.3010 as that is fundamental to power ratios and decibels, which are so universally misrepresented by S meters, so are dear to the hearts of amateurs everywhere.

As for i or j, we know it merely represents a phase shift of 90 degrees, so perhaps summits like *090 would qualify for that badge. The graphic would be the complex number plane with a suitable reactance plotted. 100 +J500 like one of my antennas.

:slight_smile:

73 Andrew VK1DA/VK2DA

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I have a pi badge - for chasing a -314 summit. :joy:

Melibocus DM/HE-314 - twice

73,
Rod

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I also have a Pi badge, but short of searching my logs for the date on which it was issued - is there an easier way to find out which summit it was for?

73 Ed.

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It must have been a summit with the number -314 ā€¦ obviously.
grafik

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Took me 11 clicks or keypresses

1 Click Chaser Stats
2 Click 2 for second page of badges and read date as 2016-06-21
3 Click More under recent chases
4 Click date dropdown
5 Click 2016
6 Click Show
10 Type 314 into search box and press return, not date we want
11 Click search button again, found date we want

Ta-da!

2016-06-21 10:31 DD5LP IZ0WRS/P I/AB-314 Pizzo Cefalone 14MHz SSB 8 1626 Alex

You have 2x 314 in 2016 :slight_smile:

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Thanks Andy.
73 Ed.