Hi - I’m looking to activate my first SOTA and POTA locations in a couple of weeks. Does WRL currently offer a SOTA template like the POTA one? (With summit lookups based on location and appropriate fields?) Thanks!
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Hi David
SOTA’s template is coming soon 
Alfredo WP3C
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That’s great - thank you for the info, Alfredo.
Dave
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I am a SOTA Activator, I am really looking foreword to the SOTA template. Much like POTA it will need S2S options as well as an easy upload to the SOTA Database.
Can you add a direct link to POTA.APP and SOTADATA.ORG.UK
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SOTA is currently in testing and will be available soon!
Andy N0APX
WRL Product Manager
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Any news on the SOTA template? Or is there any workaround I can use in order than I can capture and export the required fields for import into the SOTA DB? thanks
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SOTA is currently avaliable! You can add it as an activity just like POTA.
I must be doing something wrong.. Where do I capture SOTA summit?
Also, when I export to ADIF and try import into the SOTA db, I get errors on the SOTA end about missing fields?
Hi Mike
Activate your SOTA position under “My Activities” (see red circle on screenshot below).
Make this change in the logbook. So all contacts of this logbook are changed.
Afterwards you have also the ‘Summit-to-summit’ button.
73 Pepe
I’m just a chaser for the contacts I’ve uploaded - it’s the contacts who are on summits.
Hi Mike
I just tested it. Unfortunately there is now way to open a SOTA field for logging as SOTA chaser. Please report this bug: https://app.worldradioleague.com/report-bug
73 Pepe
done. thanks Pepe.
I have just used the SOTA template for logging my last summit I activated. I have tried to export the log in ADIF format and import it to the SOTA Database with no luck. I keep getting the notification that the file is missing my peak data as well has too much other data in the table. Has anyone done an export and upload successfully to the Sota database?
Hi @NA0MT thanks for letting us know, we’re here to help!
Did you use the SOTA specific export option? There will be a regular ADIF export and then a SOTA export. The SOTA export will format the file correctly for SOTA.
If so, and it isn’t being accepted by SOTA, then it is a bug and we will fix it for you!
I used the furthest to the right export
Any update to this? I wanted to use this for my first POTA but couldn’t quite figure it out.
Also, do we have to make a separate logbook for each POTA activation? I could see that getting cluttered pretty quick. It’d be nice to nest them all under a single POTA folder.
Hi Ted @AE1RE
You ask, if there is “any update on this” in the thread with topic “Is a SOTA template available?”. But then you are talking about POTA. So, do you need more information about SOTA or about POTA?
For both (SOTA or POTA), you can open a new logbook directly in the mobile app as well as in the web app. After clicking on ( + New Logbook ) you define in the “Add Activities” section whether it is a SOTA or POTA activation. Previous bugs with the Summit-to-Summit and Park-to-Park fields have all been fixed by the WRL team. Nothing stands in the way for your next SOTA or POTA activation.
If you have any further question, please ask.
73 Pepe
WRL User and SOTA activator
Hi Ted @AE1RE
Yes, if you activate frequently a new SOTA summit (or POTA park) and you open a new logbook for each activation, you may find the large number of logbooks rather confusing.
The following solutions are available:
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Make things clearer by starting the logbook name with a date (YYYY-MM-DD). Example: 2025-07-30_SOTA HB/BE-155_Mount Schwändiblueme
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Wait until the WRL team implements the folder structure, which, to my knowledge, is currently under discussion.
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Open a new logbook for each activation, but every few months move the logged QSOs to a general SOTA (or POTA) logbook. You can do this in the QSO Manager (in the web app).
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Always use the same logbook for all SOTA activations. At the beginning of each activation, change the setting for which summit you are activating (to do this, click in the open logbook on the gear icon next to the logbook name). This change does not affect the QSOs logged in this logbook so far.
73 Pepe
WRL User and SOTA activator
Pepe,
Argh, no I meant to type SOTA and typed POTA by accident! My difficulty was in just figuring out the cell phone app, but I spent some more time yesterday messing around with it and I think I’ve got it all figured out. Thanks for that advice on organizing entries too, that should help quite a bit!
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