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

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

I already have the 150 LoTW contacts required for this award *IF* I didn't 
need to do it again. So my question is whether there will be a new Triple 
Play tally grid that shows your progress toward this award? Otherwise this 
becomes a manual process to keep track of QSO's beginning in 2009 for many 
people. Maybe this will be spelled out in the QST article?

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Laws" <plaws at plaws.net>
To: "Frank Fallon" <n2ff at optonline.net>
Cc: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] ARRL RTTY Roundup and the "Triple Play Award"


> 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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