[RTTY] ARRL RTTY Roundup and the "Triple Play Award"

[Peter Laws]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 15:04, Frank Fallon <n2ff at optonline.net> wrote:
> The January issue of QST, which should be arriving in you mailboxes
> about December 15th, will contain an announcement of the ARRL Triple
> Play Award' for working all 50 staes on CW, SSB, and Digital (RTTY).
> Confirmation will be ONLY via LoTW.  You will need to be a LoTW user to
> participate in any fashion.  Folks working you in say rare ND will not
> be able to get credit for working you for the award unless you are a
> user of LoTW.  Get those applications in now for LoTW certificates.

I hate to rain on the parade, especially since I'm looking forward to
working on my Morse "skill" (ha!), but the WAS module of LoTW has
issues.

These have been reported to the ARRL by many folks many times and they
are usually met with "we're working on it" or even "just include a
note in your submission about which credits are missing".

The lack of transparency in the LoTW program is what torques most of
the participants.  Every piece of software has defects, sadly, but the
LoTW is becoming notorious for not being forthcoming about where the
problems are and what progress is being made towards resolution.

LoTW is not free to users ($0.10/QSL when you claim an award), but
users of free programs like N1MM Logger and DXLab get better feedback
and support.

73,
Peter

3274 QSLs from 7849 LoTW QSOs (less 450 zombies)

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