[DogParkList] Logging multiple call signs with one QSO contact and log entry

Don Agro dagro at dogparksoftware.com
Sat Mar 28 13:03:18 EDT 2009


Hi Phil,

On 28-Mar-09, at 12:48 PM, Phil Hystad wrote:


> A question. What is the convention to log multiple call signs that

> are involved in a single QSO and log contact which is identified by

> frequency and time. In particular, I am thinking of something like

> a small roundtable where you might have two or three others with no

> particular main or primary contact.

>

> I am in the process of moving my own logging database into ADIF and

> then loaded into MLDX. I am using MySQL as the back bone of my own

> logging database and instead of a single call sign associated with a

> log entry, I allow multiple call signs that are foreign key

> referenced (by date/time of start of QSO) to the main log entry.


I would guess that the limiting factor would then be the ADIF
specification wouldn't it ?


> My guess is to put the extra call signs in the notes (comments)

> section but I was hoping for some method that would allow me to

> capture other information. One idea I had was merely to create

> multiple log entries all with the same start/end date-times and the

> same frequency each identifying a separate call sign. But, is there

> a canonical way of doing this in MLDX?


No MacLoggerDX, like ADIF assumes that a QSO is between the tags
"OPERATOR" (the logging operator's call sign) and "CALL" (the
contacted station's call sign).


>

> 73,

> phil, K7PEH


73 Don Agro VE3VRW




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