Boris,
Let's be clear that LotW confirmations only cost a fee when the person who
has RECEIVED the confirmation applies for an award; there remains NO charge
to upload or view a log.
And yes, when additional awards (beyond DXCC) are added, I suspect that
there will be a fee involved for each award. Just as it is now. But that's
a factor in the cost of the AWARD, NOT the cost of the QSO itself. And
again, that would be the same whether or not you use an electronic
confirmation or a paper QSL.
Again: It costs nothing to OBTAIN the confirmation. Just to USE it for
applying for an award. Big difference there.
73, ron wn3vaw
-----Original Message-----
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:21:13 +0100
From: Boris Knezovic T93Y <t93y@lol.ba>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] R: QRP - Get Over It
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Bill Turner wrote:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> That is the reason why LOTW was created. As of today, I have uploaded
> 52,288 QSOs to LOTW. If I've ever worked someone, the confirmation is
> there. I'll let you figure what the postage would have been on all
those....
>
> LOTW is not perfect - yet - but it's being worked on. Let's support
> it and let the ARRL know how important it is and what improvements
> we'd like to see.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
Bill,
LoTW confirmations costs money too and at this moment it can be used
only for DXCC award. I might be wrong but I think that you would need to
pay same LoTW QSO several times to have it counted for several awards
(once they are available) which at the end can be more expensive than
obtaining paper QSL...
73's Boris T93Y
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