[CQ-Contest] ARRL Public Logs

[N4ZR]

Oh, no question - way back in the day (early 2000s, I think), I QSLed 
everything in my logs that was a first for the band and mode.  I used to 
go through exercises where I would sort my bureau QSLs by country, and 
for the biggies, weigh the total and figure out how much postage it 
would take to send them as small parcels rather than through the ARRL 
outbound bureau.  I remember one mailing that came to more than the $120 
I mentioned above.  I really don't resent the ARRL monetizing LOTW, but 
with the trend toward public log, it just seems to me that it would help 
encourage casual ops "DXing the contest"  to get on if they knew that 
their QSOs might count toward one or another award, so long as both 
parties submitted logs.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 12/21/2019 3:12 PM, W1MD wrote:
> Plus additional green stamps for return. $2 per requested qsl on average.
>
> Hmmmm
>
> Marty
> W1MD
>
>> On Dec 21, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Jim Rhodes <jimk0xu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
>>> at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
>>> spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
>>> For spots, please use your favorite
>>> "retail" DX cluster.
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
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