[Dx4win] satellite QSO's

Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:53:55 -0400

Since LOTW is specifically for awards... would such contacts count towards
any award?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kozinn - K2DBK" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:02
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] satellite QSO's

> Along the same lines, I made a handful of Packet contacts through the ISS
> digipeater. I was never sure how to log them in the first place, and I
> think that I used "SAT" for the band (even though I guess it was really
> just 2m). Any suggestions on the correct way to log these such that
they'll
> be accepted by LOTW?
>
> Thanks.
> At 08:12 AM 9/24/2003, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> >At 01:24 AM 9/24/2003, Mike Fulcher wrote:
> >
> >>I have about 30 QSO's in DX4WIN .adi marked as band:SAT.  These were
> >>RS-12 QSO's back in 1994.  LOTW does not like this and creates an
> >>error.  What should I use for the band for these QSO's.
> >
> >The ADIF fields are:
> >
> >SAT_MODE C Satellite Mode
> >SAT_NAME C Name of satellite
> >
> >I guess Mode is like A, B, J etc.  You probably want to use a valid band,
> >maybe the downlink band like 70CM or 2M.
>
>
> 73,
>          David, K2DBK
>
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