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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • I use LOTW because my logging software of choice, Wavelog, can automate most of the process. The only headache is the initial certification, and the process I had to go through to request a new one after accidentally wiping the previous one. I thankfully never have to touch TSQL to submit my QSOs.

    I sort of understand the other ham’s opinion that “doing it for the other station” might provide motivation to submit logs to a service you don’t personally use, but that’s less true when the service in question is as poorly implemented as LOTW.

    QRZ, while it has some drawbacks, does a great job as an online QSO book. It supports 2FA to secure your account, but requires no extra software or presents barriers to prevent you from adding records to your own logbook once signed in. It also offers a fairly simple API for use with 3rd party software. It can match within its own logs, and will also honor matches imported from LOTW, making it my central “source of truth” for QSL-based awards.

    LOTW is a hacky solution in search of a question. Despite its GPG-esque security, it does nothing to prove that a contact actually occurred and I could just as easily submit false records to LOTW as I could any other logbook.









  • I’ll second that

    Jellyfin can function as a music server, but it’s definitely a video server first. All the other media (music, books, podcasts, etc) are basically still treated like TV shows when it comes to how they need to be rigidly organized.

    Navidrome on the other hand, can just take a pile of mp3s and sort everything out based on tags. Navidrome can also handle additional artists, so it can understand that “Eminem feat Elton John” isn’t a single artist. That was ultimately what made me switch from Jellyfin.





  • They’re accepted, of course, but with the maximum power limit being only 20w, I don’t intend to introduce additional power classes or multipliers.

    Another part of trying to make it more accessible is keeping the rules fairly simple. Addressing differences in band/mode limitations with multipliers seemed like a necessary evil, but I’m using the 20w limit to create a somewhat level playing field without adding any additional scoring complexity.

    Unfortunately, this also ruled out satellites, which is a favorite of mine, but I think it’s worth it to keep the contest simple.


  • You can still give it shot! There are significant multipliers for VHF and higher bands to account for the generally more limited range. It’s really intended to be something that every ham can participate in and enjoy.
    There’s even an table at the bottom of the “About and Rules” page showing example scoring comparisons between several different band/mode combos.

    Cool to hear you’re building a rig, though! Is it a kit? I built a bitx40 several years ago, but it sounds like you’re tackling something a bit more complex. lol



  • I’m not sure what Steady is, but it sounds like FreshRSS can do what you want. If you can read the articles on the website, then you should be able to use FreshRSS to scrape the site and create a feed from it. For content behind a login, I’m pretty sure FreshRSS can handle basic-auth or you can provide it cookies.

    There’s also KillTheNewsLetter which does what you want the other way, by just converting the emails into an RSS feed. It can be self-hosted, but I haven’t tried it myself, though.