Satellite names

[stevendodd]

How do you guys handle the differences between the satellite names in satnogs and clublog?

ARISS - ISS
TEVEL-5 - TEVEL5

etc

[magicbug]

We use the official satellite name unless an OSCAR number has been issued.

[stevendodd]

https://www.eqsl.cc/qslcard/eSatelliteRules.cfm

[stevendodd]

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[stevendodd]

It's all a bit of a mess

[stevendodd]

Hi Steve,

I realise it seems a bit dogmatic not to make that change, but I prefer the way this is now - i.e. 100% clearly defined and unambiguously coming from just one canonical list. If I expand it to cover more options, the effort of supporting Club Log and explaining its decisions gets harder. I hope you understand, and thanks for sharing the links to those other services for context.

73
Michael G7VJR

On Tue, 20 Feb at 5:35 PM , Steven Dodd <stevendodd@outlook.com> wrote:
I've been doing a little bit more digging, it seems that LoTW has odd names - see Satnogs https://db.satnogs.org/satellites/ and eQSL https://www.eqsl.cc/qslcard/eSatelliteRules.cfm for examples of alternative names. There's no one way to log that all services will accept as a valid recognised name. Do you think that clublog could be updated to accept the alternative names?

[stevendodd]

I don't know how everyone else uses cloudlog however I use a logging program that pushes data to all of those above services - LOTW, eQSL, Clublog and Cloudlog; what I think I would like to be able to do is to just push my data to cloudlog and have cloudlog push out to the other services.

It seems that Cloudlog and eQSL use the same names as Satnogs for the logbook while the other services use the LOTW names.

I could see if I can add this feature where Cloudlog is able to map a satellite name depending on the target service (and accept either name as valid). Do you think this is something that would be welcome?

[magicbug]

I'll add the same remap we use for LoTW to Clublog in the next few days

[magicbug]

I've now added function to remap satellite names for LoTW into the dev branch which should solve it for clublog :)