[RTTY] LOTW

[Bill Gillenwater]

I've had a few inquiries about my 33 percent QSL rate. Let me break it down 
a little bit.

If you look back to the older QSO's, the rate of confirmation via LOTW is 
very low, however, as you get into the more recent years, the rate climbs 
each and every year. I know that makes good sense, but I didn't want to 
mislead anyone about the confirm rate. I figure the current rate of 
confirmations is over 50 percent. The TriplePlay award has really increased 
the domestic LOTW rate. The 7000+ confirmations out of 21000+ entries is 
what sells me on LOTW, especially when it's over a 20+ year span. My 
suggestion is, if you have your logs on a computer logging program, go ahead 
and load them into LOTW, it's pretty straight forward. There is no cost to 
you unless you want to get "credit" for a qso that you need for an award and 
it keeps track of the awards for you.

73 Bill K3SV


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gillenwater" <gillie at pa.net>
To: "Jim W7RY" <w7ry at arrl.net>; "Robert Chudek - K0RC" <k0rc at citlink.net>; 
<RTTY at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] LOTW


> It's as easy as that!  Cool huh!  I have over 21k qso's at LOTW, some as 
> old as 1980, The QSL rate via LOTW is over 33 percent. Amazing.
>
> 73 Bill K3SV
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim W7RY" <w7ry at arrl.net>
> To: "Robert Chudek - K0RC" <k0rc at citlink.net>; <RTTY at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] LOTW
>
>
> Now that's cool!  Someone (an Excel wizard) came up with that one!!
>
> And yes, I did work all states.
>
> I'll get some credits bought and submit for my WAS award.
>
> Thanks
> 73
> Jim W7RY
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Chudek - K0RC" <k0rc at citlink.net>
> To: "Jim W7RY" <w7ry at arrl.net>; <RTTY at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] LOTW
>
>
>> You could use my RTTY Roundup Log Analyzer. It's a free download from
>> here:
>> http://tinyurl.com/8juedc
>>
>> Unfortunately it won't tell you about DXCC but it will show you all the
>> states you worked and on which bands you worked them and a whole bunch of
>> other statistics gleaned from your log.
>>
>> 73 de Bob - KØRC in CHS
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jim W7RY" <w7ry at arrl.net>
>> To: <RTTY at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:11 PM
>> Subject: [RTTY] LOTW
>>
>>
>>> Ok.. So I uploaded my Roundup log to LOTW. I see all my 1300 qso records
>>> and 800 qsl records. Now how do I find out if I have WAS?  Or DXCC?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Jim W7RY
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