Hi Herb
If you have "been there, done that" as far as VHF challenges, then you may
as well sell all your gear, and enjoy your QSL collection. Just kidding!
There is always new challenges to keep things interesting.
When you were just getting started, many folks who did not need your QSL
were happy to exchange cards with you, and I look at this as an opportunity
for us old timers to pay it forward, and help out the next generation.
LOTW is EASY, and I have confirmed a lot of QSOs via LOTW. I figure it has
saved me a pile of money by not having to send paper cards, and I don't
have to store them.
I appreciate EVERY QSO, and QSLing via LOTW is a lot easier than paper
cards these days :-) Time to join the club.
Tom - VE3CX
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Herb Krumich via VHFcontesting <
vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
> Pete I think the biggest problem is old timers like myself, have so many
> QSL's and done almost everything that can be done on VHF, I have no reason
> to join LOTW.
> That's probably the biggest problem
> 73's
> Herb at WA2FGK
>
>
> On Sunday, June 22, 2014 5:56 PM, Peter Laws <plaws@plaws.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> 42 Qs in the ARRL contest but only 11 confirmed via LOTW. That's low.
> In a RTTY contest I'd be over 50% by this long after the contest.
> Even an HF contest like SS would net me more than that by now.
>
> How can we get more VHF ops to confirm via LOTW?
>
> Would it help if TQSL -- the app that signs your log for upload --
> had been massively updated so that it makes sense? 'Cause it has.
> And there's even new directions ... ones that help you actually get it set
> up?
>
> http://www.arrl.org/TrustedQSL/tQSL-help/
>
> I *have* managed to scrape together 100 credits in LOTW to get VUCC on
> 50 MHz but I have over 200 grids worked and I really want those endorsement
> stickers. :-)
>
> So, what to do?
>
>
> --
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