Expenses...... Lets see, 120ft tower, two yagis, Alpha 9500, modern Yaesu.
Comparing to cost of $120. for award.
Uh, yeah !
Charly
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Bill Parry <bparry@rgv.rr.com> wrote:
> I am a big supporter of LOTW and have used it extensively for award
> submission. The WPX award is not one of them. I would like to use it for
> the WPX but the cost is not acceptable. If I were to apply 1000 Prefixes at
> $.12 per LOTW QSL, the cost is just too much. Using LOTW for some awards
> just doesn't work financially, nor is sending 1,000 QSLs in for checking.
> There needs to be a different method of applying for these awards that
> require a lot of QSLs such as WPX.
>
> Bill W5VX
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Martin LU5DX
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 10:43 AM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Encouraging Casual Participation in Contests
>
> Absolutely great idea.
>
> TBH, LoTW should become the standard solution for issuing credits for other
> awards. National and local Clubs, Groups, could take advantage of it.
>
> We've been talking about this type of solution with LU1FAM and LU5FF.
>
> The ARRL could charge a small fee to those institutions using their LoTW
> service to validate the credits.
>
> Win-Win solution!
>
> 73,
>
> Martin LU5DX
>
>
> El 26/04/2017 a las 11:23 a.m., Pete Smith N4ZR escribió:
> > We all agree, I think, that casual participants are a critical part of
> > the total workable population in contests. I spent the first 40 years
> > of my contesting career working contests as a quick and relatively
> > easy source of award credits, and I suspect a large majority of the
> > stations in any contest are doing some variation on this.
> >
> > There is a reasonably simple and straight-forward way to encourage
> > more of this, potentially yielding more people for us to work. We
> > need interconnection between CQ and ARRL contest databases, so that
> > any contact that is in both stations' log in a given contest can be
> > claimed for ARRL and CQ award credit without going through the QSL
> > card process.
> >
> > I'm not underestimating the programming effort involved, I hope, but
> > surely some combination of volunteer and professional staff
> > involvement can get it done. It could start small - perhaps a pilot
> > involving the CQWW open log database and DXCC. Imagine the value added
> > to LOTW if it were the hub for this process, and the potential
> > increase in DXCC fees. Surely, this is a win-win proposition.
> >
> >
>
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