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Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Triple Play Award

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Triple Play Award
From: David Wilburn <dave.wilburn@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:58:03 -0400
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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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