Bill,
Not all of us want electronic confirmations. Collecting colourful cards is
part of the hobby. If a neighbour comes over sometimes I pull down a stack
of cards to show what the hobby is all about, I can not imagine an ARRL LOTW
report giving that same attraction.
And then another point, It is harder for foreign hams to get in to LOTW than
obtaining a VISA to actually visit USA!!! No way I am going to start taking
photocopies of my license and passports and send to ARRL, I wonder why this
is not required when actually sending the cards right to ARRL or local
fieldchecker.
Yes LOTW is a relief for some hams, then it also Kills the pleasure of
others. Still not answering paper QSLs is non-hamspirit.
/Teemu SM0W-SM0WKA
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces@contesting.com] För Bill Turner
> Skickat: den 5 januari 2006 14:24
> Till: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Ämne: Re: [CQ-Contest] R: QRP - Get Over It
>
>
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> At 05:02 AM 1/5/2006, Teemu, SM0WKA wrote:
> <snip>
> >If I were to send all my QSL cards through the usual postal services I
> could
> >buy a FT9000DX 400W model every year for the same money! Wow that is a
> lot
> >of money I don't have, but now instead I can use the QSL buro system
> >engineered to let everyone, despite money on the account share their
> cards
> >for only a few bucks every year, even if you send 10.000 QSLs.
> >
> >Just my 2 eurocents worth!
> >
> >73
> >Teemu SM0W-SM0WKA
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> That is the reason why LOTW was created. As of today, I have uploaded
> 52,288 QSOs to LOTW. If I've ever worked someone, the confirmation is
> there. I'll let you figure what the postage would have been on all
> those....
>
> LOTW is not perfect - yet - but it's being worked on. Let's support
> it and let the ARRL know how important it is and what improvements
> we'd like to see.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
>
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