[amsat-bb] LoTW and the ISS repeater

[Paul Stoetzer]

I don’t believe the LoTW system has a way to create a satellite name alias.
ARISS has always been the LoTW name for the ISS amateur radio systems.
Since a QSO has to match satellite names, creating another one would cause
serious problems unless the LoTW developers implemented some form of alias
to allow ARISS to match with ISS. It’s possible this could be implemented
locally in TQSL to allow an ADIF SAT_NAME of ISS to be read as a LoTW
satellite name of ARISS at log signing time.

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 11:57 Ronald Parsons via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
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> To be consistent with other satellites, which use the popular keps
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> Cc: LoTW-help at arrl.org
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