I ended up deleting most of my locations is TQSL and created some new ones using the following naming convention: (Fun fact: Delaware only has three counties.) Based on this observation, I came up with an approach to tame my locations list and make it easier to scan the list to find a particular location. For example, all the parks in northern Delaware I activated recently are all in the same county and grid square. One thing I noticed is that many locations in my list shared the same attributes, e.g.: state, county, grid square, etc.

(That also explains the boxes of assorted leftover screws I have in the basement.) That, however, conflicts with my inherent packrat nature. One approach to paring down the list, I suppose, would be to go in and delete the one-off locations I’m not likely to visit again. Before I knew it, I was scrolling through a long list of locations to find the one I wanted for an upload to LoTW. Then, along came National Parks on the Air, followed by Parks on the Air. So, there were lots of campgrounds that my (far) better half and I frequented, along with an assortment of parks and other places my radio has been to. I started creating new locations in TQSL for every place I operated away from home. How It StartedĪs best I can recall, I started using LoTW about six or seven years ago. I’ll show you my approach to dealing with locations in TQSL. When you do most of your operating while portable, that can add up to a lot of locations to deal with. Since I upload all of my contacts to the Logbook of the World (LoTW), I like to reflect my locations accurately in the TQSL software. My (overly) fastidious approach to logging my ham radio contacts has been well-documented.

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