At 09:55 AM 5/27/2008, Alfred Frugoli wrote:
>I do, however, see the possibility of things going the other way. At least
>for ARRL sponsored contests, all electronic logs have to go through LOTW,
>with a special tag in the file that marks them as contest logs. Then ARRL
>exports the contest data from LOTW and does their electronic massaging to
>get final scores. CQWW could do the same. The catch is that every entrant
>sending an electronic log would have to be signed up for LOTW and develop
>the skills to get their log encrypted and uploaded. As we've seen from the
>initial rollout of LOTW, there is a fair amount of resistance to the signup
>process, especially in countries outside the US.
>
>I too hope that LOTW becomes more functional - I'd love to get my WAZ Award,
>which I have all the QSO's for through LOTW. I just don't see any of this
>coming any time soon
I guess I should have expected this topic to devolve into another fruitless
round of LOTW-bashing.
But seriously, guys -- with good will on both sides and a minimal
additional effort, the way to implement this is to get the contest sponsors
and LOTW to work together. The contest sponsor has a file containing all
cross-check-verified QSOs; how hard can it be to put that data in a format
that LOTW can accept, and for LOTW to enter it in its database just like
any other data transfer from another trusted server?
73, Pete N4ZR
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