I had the RF out leads on TouCans vertical reversed. The fix led to a very fun radio day with correlated data and radio events. In the past, when TouCans was a dipole, both RF out lines, RF+ and GND, were attached to antenna wires. Now, one wire goes up a carbon fiber mast forming a vertical antenna. The other lies coiled on the ground near the rig serving as a counterpoise . A few days back, while fixing a shorted power supply lead on the Tuna Topper amplifier component, I realized that the RF+ output port was attached to the counterpoise. I reversed it so it went to the vertical. It didn't seem to make a huge difference from the home QTH Those are pretty common snr numbers from the house. Friday though, there were rumblings of greatness. TouCans handily made a POTA activation followed by a SOTA activation where it was spotted in Japan on the RBN three times. Sunday I made a Juan Bautista activation from Civic Center that was remarkable, I'll write more about that later. The
SOTA accepts ADIF files and they are pretty easy to build from POTA files. After a particularly successful SOTA activation of Mt. Davidson, ( W6/NC-423 ), with 21 QSOs, I once again looked longingly at the Import ADIF button on the SOTA site. Thus far, I've been unable to locate the SOTA fields that should be used, but I happened upon the ADIF standard and found that it might only require MY_SOTA_REF . On a whim, I used my POTA template to create a line that looked like <station_callsign:6>KD0FNR<Call:5>w0jsl<QSO_DATE:8>20241115<TIME_ON:4>1740<BAND:3>20M<MODE:2>CW<MY_SIG:4>POTA<MY_SIG_REF:7>US-0757<eor> and simply changed the name of the park reference field so I had <station_callsign:6>KD0FNR<Call:5>w0jsl<QSO_DATE:8>20241115<TIME_ON:4>1740<BAND:3>20M<MODE:2>CW<MY_SIG:4>POTA<MY_SOTA_REF:9>W6/NC-423<eor> And it worked !