Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society ARLHS

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Here’s a request to add a log template for the ARLHS (Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society). This is a group of active US and worldwide hams operating portable from 15,529 lighthouses worldwide in 234 international call areas. The ARLHS is the governing organization with rules, awards, groups.io, extensive web services, operating events and a large following. Our group would very much appreciate a template on HAM2K…Chip K2KJD

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Does the program provide a publicly downloadable resource of all the lighthouses in the program? Including ID numbers, names and geo locations?
Does the program have a specific spotting website for both posting spots and publishing current activations?

While you consider these questions, you may wish to use the Custom Template in PoLo which provides a way to enter your code, name and familiar description, then export logs which should be compatible with any ADIF log submission system you have.
An example for USIslandsOntheAir is shown here:

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Alan

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Hello Alan. Thanks for the reply. The below screen grab of the world list of lighthouses give you an idea of what is available on our list for the US and international lighthouse information. The ARLHS and the WLOL are larger and more active groups relative to the British lighthouses, castles, bunkers, Belgium lites, Polish, mills and silos etc. It would be excellent to have a formal template for the ARLHS/WLOL for our US and international events throughout the year. In the meantime, you’re right, we can make existing templates do for now.
Thanks for looking into this for us, Chip, K2KJD

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Hi @Chip. I’d be happy to take a look at adding this.

As @VK1AO mentioned, one key thing would be a officially hosted machine readable file with the lighthouse details; in a CSV or JSON format for example.

Also @Chip, are you involved or know the team running ARLHS and WLOL site? I did email last year about getting permission to use the data and regards the point above for PoLo but didn’t hear back. I know emails easily get lost in spam, etc. so wonder if you had a contact already that could help?