Yeats ago, that is exactly what we had to do. Send a card and wait to get one
back from the station you wanted to have confirmed. Thus the convenience of
the ARRL QSL Bureau. Sure it takes longer but it is cheaper than sending cards
direct.
Just my two.
73,Rick, WB3BSA
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On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 13:52, Jim Rhodes<jimk0xu@gmail.com> wrote: And how
much postage would you have to buy to confirm them with direct QSLs?
On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 9:41 AM N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net> wrote:
> I find it extraordinary that the ARRL and CQ have done so little to
> implement interoperability between their contest log-checking efforts.
> Of course, ARRL might find it difficult to justify the cost of DXCC
> submissions if that were the case.
>
> I'm in the process of trying to finish my 160M DXCC - have it worked but
> not confirmed - and find that a lot of QSOs, particularly old ones, are
> not on LOTW. I have 160K QSOs on LOTW, most in contests, and was one of
> the beta testers, but so far only 59K are confirmed by LOTW. Amusingly,
> it would cost me $120 just to get DXCC credit for the QSOs that *are*
> confirmed by LOTW.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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>
> On 12/21/2019 12:08 AM, rjairam@gmail.com wrote:
> > Also true but that doesn’t mean that LoTW was not modeled after it.
> >
> > Ria
> > N2RJ
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:47 PM Hans Brakob <kzerohb@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Not all contest logs find their way to LoTW.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 73, de Hans, KØHB
> >> “Just a Boy and his Radio”
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >> *From:* CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+kzerohb=gmail.com@contesting.com
> >
> >> on behalf of rjairam@gmail.com
> >> *Sent:* Friday, December 20, 2019 7:19 PM
> >> *To:* Michael S. Mitchell W6RW
> >> *Cc:* James Cain; CQ-Contest Reflector
> >> *Subject:* Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Public Logs
> >>
> >> Wasn’t that how it was done in the old days? From what I gather, LoTW
> was
> >> designed to be a modern version of that.
> >>
> >> 73
> >> Ria
> >> N2RJ
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:13 PM Michael S. Mitchell W6RW <
> >> w6rw@earthlink.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have wondered for about 50 years that if it were possible to search
> the
> >>> ARRL contests logs and find your call and if you submitted a log for
> the
> >>> same contest and they match if this could somehow achieve DXCC credit
> for
> >>> the contact.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
> >>>> Sent: Dec 20, 2019 10:22 AM
> >>>> To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> >>>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Public Logs
> >>>>
> >>>> google the subject line. of this message.
> >>>>
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