Website down at moment?

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Is it down or is it just me?

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Yes that is a concern. I can’t get it to load either.
Dad and I will be out in the Far Eastern Fells all Easter weekend. Please listen to S20 if there’s no WOTA website

73
David M0YDH

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My fault. All sorted.

Mark.

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Ah soz Mark…some more wuk fer ye. The CSV uploader seems to be unhappy with some dates. Time seems ok but the date has a wonk on it

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Hi Alex. Can you extrapolate, because everything in your screenshot great :wink:

Mark.

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date on the uploaded stuff is 2026-03-2024 when it should be 26-03-2024. Its added an extra 20 on the front of the day

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Hi Alex

I’m not sure your input file conforms to the SOTA CSV specification. Did you use a tool to generate it, or from a spreadsheet?

When I look at my CSV files I have the date as DD/MM/YY, for example:

V2,M0NOM/P,G/LD-027,02/06/21,0913,144MHz,FM,M0AYB/P,G/LD-019,SOTA: G/LD-019
V2,M0NOM/P,G/LD-027,02/06/21,0914,144MHz,FM,G0TDM
V2,M0NOM/P,G/LD-027,02/06/21,0923,144MHz,FM,G1OHH
V2,M0NOM/P,G/LD-027,02/06/21,0927,144MHz,FM,G7KSE/P,G/LD-003,SOTA: G/LD-003
V2,M0NOM/P,G/LD-027,02/06/21,0936,144MHz,FM,G7CDA
V2,M0NOM/P,G/LD-027,02/06/21,0938,144MHz,FM,G1OAE
V2,M0NOM/P,G/LD-027,02/06/21,0940,144MHz,FM,M7AVT,,OP: Aigars  QTH: Carlisle
V2,M0NOM/P,G/LD-027,02/06/21,0941,144MHz,FM,GM3VMB,,OP: Peter  QTH: Lockerbie
V2,M0NOM/P,G/LD-027,02/06/21,0944,144MHz,FM,2E0XUP,,OP: Steve  QTH: Deerham

Regards, Mark.

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I use tsotalog. Its fine with sota and ok on here for a while. there is a slight difference in date if I download from sotadata mind you.

Original is:

V2,G7KSE/P,G/LD-024,2024-03-26,11:14,10.118Mhz,CW,EA1DT,,"Cesar r339 s339"

Downloaded from sotadata after original is uploaded:

V2,G7KSE/P,G/LD-024,26/03/2024,11:14,10MHz,CW,EA1DT,,"Cesar r339 s339"

sotatdata must fiddle about with the data format from yyyy-mm-dd to dd/mm/yyyy

No big deal

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The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from :man_facepalming:

The code providing the SOTA upload facility is written in golang and literally shoehorned onto the VM running the WOTA site. I was amazed I was able to build a linux native binary locally and it still ran when uploaded to the server.

It is in my plans to replace/augment the facility with a more general ADIF upload facility but I can’t see me using golang again given that I haven’t written any in 5 years. The way in which the current facility works suffers from code smell so I’d look to provide a replacement facility that supports both SOTA/ADIF files, probably utilising some of the code from the ADIF Processor.

I’d also like to get a mobile friendly version of the spots/alerts pages put together for operators ‘in the field’.

Cheers, Mark

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I love a good standard

I’m glad you’re doing all this stuff. i wouldn’t know which thing to mess up first :slight_smile:
tsotalog is great in the field but not so good with wota, so I’ll upload to sota first then use that csv in the future. Just spent a bit of time fixing the log (again) with wonky dates. I’d prefer not to do that