[CQ-Contest] L.O.T.W.

[Michael Tope]

As I recall the postcard can take a few weeks. Once you get your
first certificate activated (via the postcard), however, all additional
certificate requests/renewals can be done online with very quick
turnaround (either via email or website upload/download). I would
encourage everyone, however, to make a backup copy of their
current certificates to a .P12 file (this is easily done from within the
TSQSLCert program). I had a hard drive crash recently and didn't
have a current backup. Fortunately, I did have an old certificate
backup, so Wayne N7NG was able to reset my account so that I
could submit new renewal requests via email against my old certificates
without having to go through the post card routine. If I had kept a
current certificate backup (e.g. current .P12 file), it would have been
even easier to recover from the crash (just a matter of loading the
.P12 certificate backup file into TQSLCert).

73 de Mike, W4EF.................................


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buck - N4PGW" <n4pgw-list2 at towncorp.net>
To: "'N7MAL'" <N7MAL at CITLINK.NET>; <CQ-CONTEST at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] L.O.T.W.


> If the ARRL will cooperate and send me what I need, maybe I'll get
> certified.  They seem to have ignored my last three or four emails with 
> the
> TQ5 files. I just sent one today.  Maybe I should send it every day until 
> I
> receive the post card.
>
> Maybe one day I'll get on there again.
>
> 73 for now.
> Buck
> N4PGW
>
>