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

[Charles Morrison]

Rich, 

I totally agree.  After each contest, I export my Writelog log into an Adif
file, import it into N3FJP's ACLog ($20 lifetime subscription) and then hit
the LOTW button.  It asks what I want to do, upload the entire log or upload
all of the qso's input since the last upload.  I click the second one, it
takes the qso's, signs em, connects to LOTW, uploads them and then asks if I
want to download all of the QSL's that are in the system, I say yes.  It
then changes the S and R (sent and received) columns to say that I've either
sent and/or received a qsl.  That's it.

Charlie
KI5XP
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:50:22 -0400
From: Richard Ferch <ve3iay at rac.ca>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] L.O.T.W.
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
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It seems to me a bit incongruous for people who have figured out how to
install and use WriteLog, N1MM, TRLog and/or CT, and who can find their way
around the menu systems of modern high-end radios, to complain about the
complexity of LotW.

I suspect one solution may be to have the details of signing the files
embedded inside your logging software, the way DXKeeper does it. If more
logging software did that, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation
(although in these summer doldrums, what else would we chat about?)