[CQ-Contest] LOTW Participation

[g.m.mcadams at comcast.net]

Pat,

Speaking as a middle-to-end of the pack contestor, I sometimes upload to LOTW BEFORE I send the Cabrillo file to the contest sponsor.

I have found that the contest community as a whole is very good about following up with QSL's be they electronic or paper when requested. LOTW is a great tool for those of us who use the contest as a neat and fun way to fill in the blanks on our various awards.

I have uploaded all my logs from 1987 forward, since that was the year I got my current call. Most of my confirmations are from the year 2000 forward. So far, I have qualified for DXCC, WAS (phone and RTTY) I'm very close to a CW worked all states and very close to a  5-band WAS, all via LOTW.

So, yes I find the contest community a great source of QSL's!

73 Gary
WG7X
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Patrick Hoppe" <phoppe at wi.rr.com> 

> Is it common practice for the contesting community to upload their logs to 
> LOTW? I am always amazed that I can WAS in a week-end contest and still not 
> have WAS via LOTW. I have 17k Q's uploaded and still only WAS via phone 
> using all the bands. According to my logging software, I have WAS on 
> multiple bands and multiple modes. Yes, I have the paper cards and could 
> turn them in, but I wanted to see if the LOTW concept worked. 
> 
> 
> 
> So what are your thoughts - do you upload your log after every contest and 
> if so, what are your results? 
> 
> 
> 
> Pat 
> 
> WW9R 
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