getontheair1. Your log
Drop an ADIF or Cabrillo file here
Ham2K Power Logger or classic Ham2K Portable Logger (Ham2K shortens both to PoLo): export the PA QSO Party ADIF or Cabrillo, then drop it here. N1MM Logger+, N3FJP’s Pennsylvania QSO Party Log (In State or Out of State) and other loggers work too.
Paste a log instead
Try example data:
Once a log is loaded, new files, pastes, watched-file updates and PoLo links merge into it: matching contacts are updated, new ones are added, and your fix choices stay.
Live mode
Point the page at a log file your logger keeps saving and it re-reads it on a timer, so the stats stay current while you operate. Your fix choices carry over.
Live from Ham2K PoLo
Here PoLo means Ham2K Power Logger running the PAQP Live add-on. The classic Ham2K Portable Logger can’t run add-ons; export a file from it instead.
New to this? Read the PAQP Live instructions: Link mode, Real time pairing, and troubleshooting.
With the PAQP Live add-on (test build) in Ham2K Logger, tap Send full log in its PAQP Live panel and your contacts appear here. A big log comes in parts: tap each part once, in any order, and the checker switches over when it has them all. Your contacts travel inside the link, straight to your own browser, and never pass through this site’s server. If a checker tab is already open, it updates too. Get the PAQP Live add-on (download, setup, privacy).
Real time: tap Pair for real time to get a code. In Ham2K Logger, set PAQP Live to Real time and type the code into its settings. New, edited and deleted contacts then show up here within seconds. This page remembers the code, so a reload or a dropped connection rejoins the same pairing and gets your full log back at once. In Real time mode the add-on sends your QSOs to our relay on getontheair.app, which keeps them on disk for up to 7 days after the last update so a reload or reconnect gets them back, then deletes them. What’s sent: your PA QSO Party contacts’ time (to the minute), callsign, band, mode, frequency, sent serial and county, and received serial and county/section, plus your own station call, your sent county and a short random id for the operation. Forget this pairing clears the pairing in this browser and disconnects; it doesn’t delete the relay’s copy, which expires on its own. Forget contacts received from PoLo clears the contacts this browser saved.
Waiting for contacts from PoLo.
Paste from Ham2K (if links don’t open)
In Ham2K Logger, type PAQPCOPY in the call field and press space, select all the text it shows, copy it, and paste it here. Or export ADIF from Ham2K and drop the file above.
2. Score estimate
3. Location fixes
Each different spelling is listed once. Known aliases, case and near-miss typos are fixed unless you reject them. Anything that could mean more than one place is left alone and not counted until you choose.
4. Flagged QSOs
5. Stats
By band and mode
Top counties
Rate by hour (UTC)
PA county map
Hover, tap or tab to a county for details.
County boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic boundary files (simplified).
PA counties
ARRL/RAC sections and DX
More stats
QSOs, points and multipliers by band and mode
Rates: last and best 10, 15 and 60 minutes
On time, off time and breaks
Multiplier timeline
Counties still needed
What’s left to catch (sections and DX)
Stations: unique, repeats and top worked
County-line contacts, mobiles and rovers
K3ZMC bonus station
Score projection (estimate)
Saturday vs Sunday
6. Download
Same QSOs, with your accepted fixes written to SRX_STRING/STX_STRING.
Cabrillo for the PA QSO Party
Fill in your header. It is saved only in this browser. Check the categories against the rules before you upload at paqso.org.
County line is chosen on the upload form, not in Cabrillo.
Digital QSOs are always left out. Dupes stay in; the sponsor sorts them.
What it checks
- Where it reads the exchange.
SRX_STRING/STX_STRINGfirst (serial plus location, the way Ham2K PoLo writes it, withSRX/STXfor the serials), thenCNTY,ARRL_SECT,STATEorVE_PROV. Cabrillo lines are read with or without RST columns. - Counties. The 67 official abbreviations (for example BUX, DCO, INN, MGY, MTR, NHA, NUM). Full names, common short forms (PHILA, DELCO, WSTM, MONTG), case and one-letter slips are mapped. Ambiguous ones such as MONT, MON, NOR, CAM, DEL and IND are flagged for you to choose.
- Sections. The 71 ARRL and 14 RAC sections from the sponsor’s list. MD and DC map to MDC, HI to PAC, NFLD to NL, PQ to QC, NWT or YT to TER. States and provinces with several sections (NY, NJ, CA, TX, FL, MA, WA, ON, and the old MAR) are flagged, because the rules want the section. “PA” or “PENN” is never valid: PA stations send a county.
- Rules. Contest periods, WARC/60 m, digital modes, missing serials or locations, dupes per band and mode (all phone modes count as one), and county-line contacts like CAR/LEH counted once per county. Out-of-state entrants get no credit for non-PA stations, and those are marked rather than counted as errors.
- Score. (CW×2 + phone×1, doubled for QRP) × multipliers + 200 per K3ZMC QSO + 500 per mobile/rover county with 10 or more QSOs. In PA, EPA and WPA are added from the counties you work, the way the sponsor’s rescore does. The bonus is counted once per band and mode, added after the multiplier. The rules don’t spell out that detail, so treat it as an estimate.
- Privacy. File checks run in this browser; a log you drop or paste isn’t uploaded. Fix choices, header fields and contacts received from the add-on are kept in this browser’s local storage. Only the optional Real time pairing sends QSOs to our relay, which keeps them for up to 7 days after the last update. Forget this pairing clears the browser side.
Using it with Ham2K PoLo (Power Logger or Portable Logger)
PoLo has a PA QSO Party activity. Its ADIF export writes CONTEST_ID = PA-QSO-PARTY, STX_STRING and SRX_STRING as “serial location”, and STX/SRX. Its Cabrillo export uses the same contest name. Both read straight into this checker.
PoLo already keeps a running score on screen. We found no network broadcast (UDP), local web feed or public sync API that a web page could read live. For live stats here, use Watch a log file with any logger that keeps saving an ADIF file. Otherwise export again from PoLo and drop the new file; your fix choices are kept.