It should be noted that as of this weekend, LOTW now has a 12% QSL rate
overall for the
111 million plus QSO's. Not bad, considering a certain percentage are
mistakes that can't be
deleted (I have a bunch).
Speaking of mistakes - During CQ WW SSB, I didn't quite follow the
instructions of my software,
and I had a 1 hour glitch in my time stamps for my QSO's after the 2PM
daylight savings time change.
I had restarted the software later that morning, and I was back in sync -
but I didn't know I had
the time warp in my log!
So, a couple of days later, I got 2 eQSL's from PJ4E (one for 15m, one for
40m). When I checked
LOTW, only the 15m PJ4E QSO was there. I double checked my log, and I found
the time was
1 hour off! For a while I thought it was him (I was in denial). Then I
noticed other eQSL's were
off an hour too! In fact 30 QSO's of my 180 were off by an hour! I fixed
my log, and now I have
2 QSL's from PJ4E.
Thank you LOTW and eQSL! You saved me 1000's of points, and many
multipliers in CQWW!
I have noticed that the QSL rate on LOTW from US RTTY contesters is 40 to
50%. And most
of them are within hours of the contest finish.
Tim K6GEP
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