Topband: qsling

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

dt wrote:
> With all the talk about qsl'n ,
> I am surprised someone has not revived the
> question of why some of us are not enthusiastic
> about LOTW.
>
>
> When we were originally forced to go through all
> the 'hoops', it was a real hassle for us, but we
> eventually managed.
>
>
>   

I finally bite the bullet and signed up to  LOTW and although it was not 
easy at first  to navigate all the requirements it has saved me with a 
ton of paper work getting my DXCC upgrade.  I have now uploaded 12K 
qso's mostly 160 meter contests in the past 4 years.  The thing that 
bugs me is the application fees which reappears each time I apply for 
new credits.   The platform is awesome but  be sure your dates and times 
are correct as there does not appear to much leeway on this.

I do wish that HQ would decide to allow log checking as this would be 
very helpful and reduce the bandwidth usage of "time jumping" on my 
uploads.  If the DX-peditions  log check shows contacts and you log 
agrees why can't you use LOTW to get the time in the box.  My logger 
jumped with DST on the computer which was my mistake and now I check the 
time with every log on..  However, some DX-pedition might put you in the 
log and you did not log it because of a qrmer on the report.  You keep 
calling and get the station again 20 minutes later and log them but they 
remember giving you a report and don't log you again because you show up 
as a dupe.  this is just an excample of what can go wrong with LOTW time 
and date stamps that may be off from you submission.

I also noticed that some countries more than other do not use LOTW.  I 
went through 98 OM contacts before I found one hit with LOTW.  Nor does 
Bosnia operations and regulars like E74AW show up on the look up box. I 
did however get credits for TX0DX, 1A4A, N8S, 4W6WW,  and T33C. So it 
was extremely valuable to try to get enough cards in to get back on the 
honor roll.

73

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ