Dennis,
My understanding (and I could be wrong) from people I've talked to both at
the League and/or involved in Logbook of the World is that contest logs will
not automatically be sent over to the LotW system. There are a lot of good
reasons for this, but the chief one is that you have to (or will have to)
have a registered digital signature in order to upload logs to LotW for
security reasons. I'm sure many will argue that this is an unnecessary step
or overbearing secruity requirements, but that's the way it's going to be.
But if you think it through... OK, so you email your Cabrillo log in to the
contest desk. What's one more email to the LotW system -- 15 seconds? So
it really shouldn't be a problem as a practical matter.
73, ron wn3vaw
"What's wrong with being an angry prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of our
time?" -- Howard Beale
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Ponsness" <wb0wao@hotmail.com>
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] ARRL, Line Scores, Etc.
One of the down sides is not seeing you call in print in QST, but I can live
with that. I must say that I am impressed with the content on the ARRL
website. Especially the LCR's - showed me where I needed to improve <grin>
! I can live with the change.
I do agree that the time should be cut to 15 days for submissions AND most
definately that the results be "published" very soon after. 6 months is
waaaay to long to wait. The results should be made available within 30 days
of the event.
Now, when will the 'test logs be incorporated into the "LoTW" project? That
is something that I know I would love to see. If the Q is good enough for
the ARRL to accept as a valid 'test Q, it should be good enough to accept
for WAS, DXCC, etc. I am not a "big gun" in the contesting game (100w,
vertical, wire antennas) and I think I have received a total of a couple
dozen QSL requests from 'test Q's. I can only imagine what a major 'test
station gets!
Anyway, I will still participate in the 'tests, have fun, and give out some
Q's. Look for me in the pileups!
73
Dennis - WB0WAO
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