[TenTec] Wow!

[k9zw at mac.com]

Afraid under my old call I didn't make even 1/2 of Carl N4PY's achieved LOTW QSL rate for DX QSOs, though the rate was better for domestic QSLs.  I average 90%+ on direct DX QSLs, or better stated 20-times the confirmation rate of LOTW.

After all the struggles to even get LOTW to work (I made the heinous mistake of upgrading computers between starting the LOTW registration process and receiving all the needed passwords & certificates) I would add 2 DXCC entities to my count.

I've shirked from going through the pain of dealing with my new call and multiple operational QTH's on LOTW.  Seems a lot of effort.

For what it is worth Treasury Workstations - the dedicated systems where you trade millions of dollars in several currencies on several markets around the world - are a dawdle to set up compared to LOTW.  Not to mention how my home banking, credit card management, and even international travel bookings all somehow work securely & efficiently with easy to use passwords, or public/private keys.

Perhaps the ARRL does have a cost recovery issue from "reinventing the wheel" as the clumsy LOTW security system was implemented, but those costs are sunk.  ARRL should consider moving to a LOTW-II with today's technology to bring on enough active users to make cost recovery certain.  

my 2-cents,

73

Steve
K9ZW




On Wednesday, March 14, 2007, at 01:09PM, "Carl Moreschi" <n4py at arrl.net> wrote:
>
>I was wrong about the 20% LOTW QSL rate.  I just checked it and for me it is
>9.6%
>
>73,
>
>Carl Moreschi N4PY