[CQ-Contest] Contesters supporting LoTW

[Fabian Kurz]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:51:21AM -0700, Julius Fazekas wrote:
> Something that would broaden the appeal, particularly
> for award oriented folks, is if LOTW wasn't so limited
> to just DXCC and WAS.
> 
> It would be nice if there was a sharing agreement of
> some sort between, at least, the national
> organizations for various other awards.

They'd just have to let you download a version of the lotwreport.adi
file that is signed with an ARRL private key and verifiable with
an ARRL public key.

*Anyone* could, with minimal software requirements, verify the
integrity of the resulting ADIF file which contains all confirmed
contacts, probably more secure than with paper QSO cards.

One major problem, however, is that all the additional information
contained in the lotwreport-file (CQ/ITU/Gridsquare/IOTA) is *not*
checked or verified in any way. I found that about 5% of all entries
contain a wrong ITU and CQ zone (usually swapped), and a lot of the
IOTA information are bogus. 

73,
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Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK * Dresden, Germany * http://fkurz.net/