[CQ-Contest] Contesters supporting LoTW

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

True, but remember that Grid Square and IOTA and similar information are
submitted by the same person submitting the log.  They are not automatically
generated by LotW.

So what's the difference if I input the wrong Grid Square on LotW or if I
have the wrong one printed on my QSL card?

...and you can't automatically assume that it's always wrong.  I've
occasionally operated some contests from W3WH's QTH -- not just a different
grid square but a different county.  If you don't catch that I used a
different QTH (something that I CAN set when I encrypt my log extract each
month), you might assume that the information in LotW is wrong when compared
to the home QTH -- but not the operating one for that QSO!

73

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Fabian Kurz
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:53 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contesters supporting LoTW


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