There is an active POTA help group on Slack, as well as plenty of help available in the Facebook group. Those are better places to ask how to do POTA in ACL. What you are asking here is venturing into the area of a another contest specific program and Scott has already detailed the logistics involved there.


73 & 44,

-Jim
NU0C

Zero District POTA Area Coordinator
http://www.parksontheair.com/
Zero and Seven Districts WWFF-KFF Log Manager
https://wwffkff.wordpress.com/


On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 12:00:47 -0400
"Ernest G. Wilson II" <ErnestGWilsonII@...> wrote:

> Scott,
>
> That was the video I already followed.
> That does not address the issues reported in my email.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ernest G. Wilson II
> Email: ErnestGWilsonII@...
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 11:31 AM Scott Davis via groups.io <SNKDavis=
> aol.com@groups.io> wrote: 
>
> > Hi Ernie,
> >
> > Thanks for your e-mail.  I've not been active with POTA myself and AC Log
> > was not designed with POTA in mind, but you will find the configuration
> > settings other POTA folks use here:
> >
> > How do I configure AC Log for proper ADIF output for WWFF Parks on the Air
> > (POTA)? <http://www.n3fjp.com/faq.html#q107>
> >
> > http://www.n3fjp.com/faq.html#q107
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > 73, Scott
> > N3FJP
> > *http://www.n3fjp.com* <http://www.n3fjp.com/>
> >
> > *Serving the Amateur Radio community with contesting and general logging
> > software since 1997.*
> >
> > 1 Peter 3 vs 15: *Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who
> > asks you to give the reason for <http://www.n3fjp.com/Faith.htm>the hope
> > that you have <http://www.n3fjp.com/Faith.htm>. But do this with gentleness
> > and respect*...
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ernest G. Wilson II <ErnestGWilsonII@...>
> > To: N3FJPSoftwareUsers@groups.io
> > Sent: Sat, Oct 24, 2020 9:42 am
> > Subject: [N3FJPSoftwareUsers] Parks on the Air (POTA) logging
> >
> > Hello Scott and Kimberly (and N3FJP logging fans worldwide)!
> >
> > I'm relatively new to parks on the air activations for ham radio and I
> > recently came across some issues pertaining to accurate park logging.
> >
> > When submitting to official log book of the world and/or something like
> > QRZ for example,
> > I would like callers to be in the log for calling into *the actual park
> > location* and not my FCC ULS database listed home address on file.
> > This has forced me to do a bunch of hand edits to my logs:
> > Manually adding / editing the ADIF export and adding park specific data
> > (based on the park I am set up in):
> > Example:
> > If I was at Auburn Valley State Park in Delaware, park K-4366 (all this
> > data would be different for each park):
> > <*MY_SIG_INFO*:6>*K-4366*
> > <*MY_GRIDSQUARE*:6>FM29dt
> > <*MY_LAT*:9>39.812500
> > <*MY_LON*:10>-75.679700
> > <*MY_CQ_ZONE*:1>5
> > <*MY_ITU_ZONE*:1>8
> > <*MY_DXCC*:3>291
> > <*MY_CITY*:7>Yorklyn
> > <*MY_CNTY*:17>New Castle County
> > <*MY_STATE*:2>DE
> > <*MY_POSTAL_CODE*:5>19736
> > <*MY_COUNTRY*:3>USA
> >
> >
> > *1.)*
> > *a.)* First, each record needs to have the park I am activating;
> > *b.)* In the official log, need to use *MY_SIG_INFO* but it would be
> > awesome if N3FJP software would display a friendly name like *PARK*
> > [image: image.png]a
> >
> >
> > *2.)*
> > *a.)* It would be great if the F3FJP software would help us build (or
> > import) a list of parks.
> > *b.)* Each time we activate a park, we may be at a different park
> > somewhere in the world.
> >      We want our contacts to be logged for calling the park and *not our
> > home address*.
> >      *Each park location has specific details* (during a single park
> > activation, this info is usually the same for each record):
> > [image: image.png]
> >
> >
> > *3.)*
> > *a.)* Some park contacts are special "*Park to Park*" calls.
> >       In the official log, need to use *SIG_INFO* but it would be awesome
> > if N3FJP software could display a friendly name like *P2P*
> > [image: image.png]
> >
> >
> >
> > Tried editing the logger to make it park focused, so it  looks like this
> > now;
> > [image: image.png]
> >
> >
> > Thank you in advance for even reading this!
> >
> > Am I doing it wrong?
> > Or is there a POTA version of N3FJP logger?
> > How have other folks solved this?
> >
> > 73
> > Ernie
> > W3GUY
> > (formerly W3TCP - I recently changed my vanity callsign to align with my
> > wife's call: W3GRL - We are now "girl and guy" - W3 GRL and GUY hi hi)
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Ernest G. Wilson II
> > Email: ErnestGWilsonII@...
> >
> >
> >
> > 
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