[CQ-Contest] ARRL Triple Play Award

[Henk Remijn PA5KT]

For stations in the USA this will be not so difficult award, but for 
overseas stations this will be a big challenge. Already working the 
stations, but also getting the confirmation.

Of the 13608 USA qso in my log I have 34% confirmed by LotW and 5% by card.
Of all the 26972 qso I have 23% LotW and 8% by card.

Worse qsling is from the 7 area, specially NV which I worked on 10, 15, 
20, 40, 160 and have only 160 confirmed (by LotW)

Today I worked a couple of KH6 because I needed Hawaii. When checking 
their qsl info it appears that all the 5 stations I worked do not do any 
eqsl or lotw, so this was waste of my time.

It would be nice to have a list of stations per state which are in the 
LotW, so I can skip working the non-LotW and gather my points with easy 
to work east coast stations.

Henk PA5KT


David Gilbert schreef:
>  From the latest ARRL Letter:
>
> "The Board voted to create a Triple Play Award. This new award, set to 
> be implemented by January 2009, will be given to those amateurs who 
> achieve Worked All States (WAS) on voice, CW and digital modes.  All 150 
> QSLs must be exclusively via Logbook of The World (LoTW).  Only those 
> contacts made after the awards start date will be eligible."
>
> The award itself sounds interesting, but the LoTW requirement makes it 
> even more interesting.  I wonder how long (and how many contacts) it 
> will take someone to achieve certificate #1.  It's entirely possible to 
> work all states on a particular mode in a single weekend contest (K7ZB 
> and I have even done it twice as M/S on 160m), but getting all 
> confirmations through LoTW sounds quite challenging.  I'm not trying to 
> knock LoTW, but at the current hit ratio most users report for the 
> system, this seems like less of an operating award and more like a 
> recruitment award ... i.e., how effective are you at sending emails 
> after the contact and begging folks to upload their logs to LoTW.   
> Maybe that was the League's intent.
>
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
>
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