There are a lot of LOTW users, in the US as well as DX, who show up as
users, but haven't uploaded logs in a long time. I often work DX, and
see that they are a LOTW user, and see them in my log 3 or 4 times,
but no responses.
David Wilburn
K4DGW
Henk Remijn PA5KT wrote:
> For stations in the USA this will be not so difficult award, but for
> overseas stations this will be a big challenge. Already working the
> stations, but also getting the confirmation.
>
> Of the 13608 USA qso in my log I have 34% confirmed by LotW and 5% by card.
> Of all the 26972 qso I have 23% LotW and 8% by card.
>
> Worse qsling is from the 7 area, specially NV which I worked on 10, 15,
> 20, 40, 160 and have only 160 confirmed (by LotW)
>
> Today I worked a couple of KH6 because I needed Hawaii. When checking
> their qsl info it appears that all the 5 stations I worked do not do any
> eqsl or lotw, so this was waste of my time.
>
> It would be nice to have a list of stations per state which are in the
> LotW, so I can skip working the non-LotW and gather my points with easy
> to work east coast stations.
>
> Henk PA5KT
>
>
> David Gilbert schreef:
>> From the latest ARRL Letter:
>>
>> "The Board voted to create a Triple Play Award. This new award, set to
>> be implemented by January 2009, will be given to those amateurs who
>> achieve Worked All States (WAS) on voice, CW and digital modes. All 150
>> QSLs must be exclusively via Logbook of The World (LoTW). Only those
>> contacts made after the awards start date will be eligible."
>>
>> The award itself sounds interesting, but the LoTW requirement makes it
>> even more interesting. I wonder how long (and how many contacts) it
>> will take someone to achieve certificate #1. It's entirely possible to
>> work all states on a particular mode in a single weekend contest (K7ZB
>> and I have even done it twice as M/S on 160m), but getting all
>> confirmations through LoTW sounds quite challenging. I'm not trying to
>> knock LoTW, but at the current hit ratio most users report for the
>> system, this seems like less of an operating award and more like a
>> recruitment award ... i.e., how effective are you at sending emails
>> after the contact and begging folks to upload their logs to LoTW.
>> Maybe that was the League's intent.
>>
>> 73,
>> Dave AB7E
>>
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