[CQ-Contest] ARRL Public Logs

[Jim Rhodes]

And how much postage would you have to buy to confirm them with direct QSLs?

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 9:41 AM N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:

> I find it extraordinary that the ARRL and CQ have done so little to
> implement interoperability between their contest log-checking efforts.
> Of course, ARRL might find it difficult to justify the cost of DXCC
> submissions if that were the case.
>
> I'm in the process of trying to finish my 160M DXCC - have it worked but
> not confirmed - and find that a lot of QSOs, particularly old ones, are
> not on LOTW.  I have 160K QSOs on LOTW, most in contests, and was one of
> the beta testers, but so far only 59K are confirmed by LOTW. Amusingly,
> it would cost me $120 just to get DXCC credit for the QSOs that *are*
> confirmed by LOTW.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 12/21/2019 12:08 AM, rjairam at gmail.com wrote:
> > Also true but that doesn’t mean that LoTW was not modeled after it.
> >
> > Ria
> > N2RJ
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:47 PM Hans Brakob <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Not all contest logs find their way to LoTW.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 73, de Hans, KØHB
> >> “Just a Boy and his Radio”
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >> *From:* CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+kzerohb=gmail.com at contesting.com
> >
> >> on behalf of rjairam at gmail.com
> >> *Sent:* Friday, December 20, 2019 7:19 PM
> >> *To:* Michael S. Mitchell W6RW
> >> *Cc:* James Cain; CQ-Contest Reflector
> >> *Subject:* Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Public Logs
> >>
> >> Wasn’t that how it was done in the old days? From what I gather, LoTW
> was
> >> designed to be a modern version of that.
> >>
> >> 73
> >> Ria
> >> N2RJ
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:13 PM Michael S. Mitchell W6RW <
> >> w6rw at earthlink.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have wondered for about 50 years that if it were possible to search
> the
> >>> ARRL contests logs and find your call and if you submitted a log for
> the
> >>> same contest and they match if this could somehow achieve DXCC credit
> for
> >>> the contact.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: James Cain <jamesdavidcain at gmail.com>
> >>>> Sent: Dec 20, 2019 10:22 AM
> >>>> To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> >>>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Public Logs
> >>>>
> >>>> google the subject line. of this message.
> >>>>
> >>>> -- K1TN
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Jim K0XU
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