[RTTY] BARTG Sprint Rules Questions

[Susan King]

Last week I could not make LoTW give me a list of my TriplePlay credits. I
sent a note on a Sunday evening to lotw-help at arrl.org. I didn't expect a
fast answer but I received help within minutes. My LoTW problem was fixed
fast.

I still need 8 more for TriplePlay but the LoTW folks were quick, helpful,
and friendly.

Susan K5DU (any Montana or North Dakota folks out there for a schedule?)


On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Ed Muns <w0yk at msn.com> wrote:

> Jim, N7US wrote:
> > Regarding Ed's question #4:  My FCC license specifies my
> > location as Illinois. Do I use N7US or must I use N7US/9?  If
> > the latter, I won't participate, as it complicates LOTW,
> > requiring a separate certificate.
>
> I am in this situation, call sign W0YK operating in US call area 6.  I
> never
> append '/6' to my call sign, but of course the BARTG Sprint requires it.
> Since my LoTW account did not provide for W0YK/6 QSOs, I was interested in
> what it would take to upload my log, correctly, to LoTW after the contest
> on
> Sunday.  Turns out, it was trivial.
>
> 1.  Per Jim's comment above, I understood that I needed to "sign" my BARTG
> Sprint log (call sign W0YK/6) with a "certificate" for W0YK/6, not my
> normal
> W0YK certificate.  It took all of sixty seconds to run the TQSL Cert
> program, create a W0YK/6 "certificate request" and submit to ARRL.  The
> immediate response from the LoTW server was that I had exceeded the number
> of certificates and a ARRL LoTW staff person would review.  (I have some
> foreign call signs in addition to being trustee for a number of US club
> call
> signs for which I submit log data to LoTW.)
>
> 2.  I thought this might be a problem, but twelve hours later, first thing
> Monday morning, my W0YK/6 certificate came into my email.  It took another
> second 60-second session to get it installed and create the "tq8" log file
> for uploading to LoTW.
>
> 3.  The last thing I did was to add a "rule" to my W0YK WAS and DXCC award
> accounts to include W0YK or W0YK/6 QSOs.  This also took less than a
> minute.
> In the time it took to do this third step, the LoTW server processed all my
> BARTG Sprint QSOs and reflected QSLs for nearly half of them.  BARTG Sprint
> was my first RTTY operation from W0YK in 2009 and 45 states were credited
> for RTTY QSOs in Triple Play.
>
> So, I didn't experience what I'd call complication, but I know a number of
> people have found LoTW difficult and time-consuming to use.  For me, this
> was amazingly simple and fast.
>
> Ed - W0YK
>
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