Add a Station Location override in the LoTW upload dialog?
Posted: 15 Dec 2024, 18:02
I have found Log4OM to be a good fit for my ham radio logging now that I am doing a lot of POTA activation work. I have recently learned that grid square hunters often work POTA activators (especially on FT8) because the POTA spotting page lists the activator's grid square. If I accurately record my grid square when I am in a park, and then want that grid square recorded in LoTW, today I have to go into Log4OM's LoTW configuration and change my station location, upload just those QSOs I made during the activation, then remember to go back into the Log4OM LoTW configuration and change my location back to my home QTH. Lots of my favorite activators don't bother to do this, but I would like to help out the grid square hunters.
It would be nice if the Log4OM LoTW upload dialog had an option to change the station location for just that upload, without disturbing my normal station location setting.
Of course, the best solution would be for LoTW to set my grid square (and CQ Zone, ITU Zone, State and Country) from the ADIF file MY_GRIDSQUARE field, but the ARRL has told me that LoTW code is ancient, fragile and needs to be redesigned and rewritten. I may not live to see that day. Meanwhile, Log4OM could help me upload the correct data with this feature request.
Please comment on the possibility of adding this feature?
It would be nice if the Log4OM LoTW upload dialog had an option to change the station location for just that upload, without disturbing my normal station location setting.
Of course, the best solution would be for LoTW to set my grid square (and CQ Zone, ITU Zone, State and Country) from the ADIF file MY_GRIDSQUARE field, but the ARRL has told me that LoTW code is ancient, fragile and needs to be redesigned and rewritten. I may not live to see that day. Meanwhile, Log4OM could help me upload the correct data with this feature request.
Please comment on the possibility of adding this feature?