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#HamRadio clubcalls may not normally be activated from several places simultaneously, German rules. An online reservation system helps comply! I coded one such and described it in the #DARC member magazine https://www.darc.de/cqdlarchiv/CQDL03-2021.pdf page 47ff (with correction a month later page 83).

That software was never adopted by the clubcall crowd. While the source is still public, it is history now.

Now I noticed @db4scw is offering something similar as https://github.com/DB4SCW/coordinatorr . Stefan, I wish you luck!

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Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him Mar 16

The previous 🧵 was posted with the idea that @db4scw can grab from the article any of my old design decisions he likes.

That article doesn't mention what I learned only afterwards: It was naive to simply collect ADIF logs and deal with them later.

When actually looking into the logs: 🤦

Ops filed the log with the wrong activation slot. Some logs documented illegal QSOs: QSOs done while the OP had NOT reserved the call!

So today, I would check logs immediately and reject bad ones right away.

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Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him Mar 16

Another thing: There is significant overlap of the clubcall and the paper QSL collection crowd. The latter is very not amused if QSL cards don't come in.

I had problems at the time and didn't get that part done.

Ugly scenes unfolded. The responsible club president (DV D) demanded things of me: By email. Without ever talking to me on the phone or in person.

Others helped, so the cards are out by now.

Long-term fallout: I'm basically no longer active locally, but at DARC HQ level.

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Stefan DB4SCW Wolf Mar 16

@dj3ei Yeah, I know the QSL part of event calls well. It's a bit mitigated since I write "Please be aware that we will only print QSL cards after the event when we know how much we will likely need." on my QRZ pages.

Normally though, I try to get the QSL cards of an event out to my printing partners at max 3 weeks after the event. Got that done each time (up to now)

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Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him Mar 16

Well, I really didn't do this part well.

It was more than **two years** after the end of the event when I finally had given up the idea to fully log-enable (on QSO level) my application, and instead had prepared the "golden log" by improvised one-time processes, that "golden log" that other people then turned into paper cards.

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Stefan DB4SCW Wolf Mar 16

@dj3ei I found out myself that "the one loyal soul" of log collection and log checking is sadly necessary for event call activities. But I tried to make their job (for the meme calls over @ mememonth.org and my clubs anniversary call that was me) as easy as possible with hamawardz and coordinatorr.