SOTAData3 (Part 4)

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@VK3ARR - what is required in the ADIF for microwave contacts?

The .csv had a fancy QRA expression to allow distance calculations for frequencies > 1000 MHz.

Microwave Contacts

Just recently there has been an increase in people doing Microwave activations and chases. If you wish to claim any of our Microwave Awards then you need to enter extra information. This is because the awards are based on distance unlike all other SOTA awards. SOTA Microwave Awards are available for SOTA contacts on 23cms or higher. If you have a summit to summit QSO, you enter your summit and your QSO partner’s summit. The database knows exactly where both summits are located and can calculat…

@MM0FMF

For a Maidenhead locator the format must look like this with no extra punctuation or spaces.

%QRA%XX99AA%

A QSO with someone in Edinburgh would have a locator of %QRA%IO85KW%.

If you don’t know the locator you can use the latitude & longitude of the chaser in this format.

%QTH%LAT,LON%