[CQ-Contest] LoTW - easy!

[Donald Field]

I'm astonished at the whining on here about LoTW. By far the majority of contesters have mastered sending Cabrillo logs - sending certified LoTW logs is really no harder. As a non-US ham I had to send some paperwork to ARRL. However, it was not necessary to send top copies or photo i.d's (lots of misinformation on here!), cost the equivalent of about $1 in photocopying, plus a postage stamp. Encryption key was e-mailed to me shortly afterwards.

For those who find this too burdensome, no one is under any obligation to play - just continue with the tried and trusted paper method.

And why is the burden of proof higher than with paper QSLs? Well, seems to me that if someone tampers with a paper card, that's maybe two or three spoof QSOs at most. A tampered-with e-log could have tens of thousands of QSOs that are then suspect. I'll go with ARRL's approach to data integrity.

Now can we get back to contest matters ...

Don G3XTT