[UK-CONTEST] How can I renew my LOTW certificate?

[Dave Sergeant]

Thanks for those who helped me out with this one.

For those LOTW users who have let their certificate expire, the 
procedure is to contact Wayne Mills N7NG at ARRL (N7NG at arrl.org) and 
send him a new certificate request (.tq5) file. Delete all existing 
.tq5 and .tq6 files before generating the new request.He will then 
authorise it manually and you will be sent a new certificate from the 
system. Now back in working order again.

I last used TQSL to prepare upload files a week before the expiry 
date. It might have been helpful if the software or the LOTW website 
displayed me a prominent warning message then that it was about to 
expire...

73 Dave G3YMC

On 1 Nov 2004 at 10:41, Dave Sergeant wrote:

> On 26 Oct 2004 at 19:15, Doug Roberts wrote:
> 
> > You need to be running the 'TQSL Certificate' program - that's
> > tqslcert.exe, not tqsl.exe.  When that window opens, click to
> > highlight the certificate you need to renew.  From the menu bar at
> > the top of the window, click on 'Certificate'.  'Renew Certificate'
> > is the option at the bottom of the drop-down menu (but is greyed out
> > unless you previously highlighted a certificate).
> > 
> > I have certificates for six different callsigns, all were renewed a
> > month or so ago with no problems!
> 
> It seems you can only do this if you renew before your existing 
> certificate has actually expired. Until I saw these posts I was not
> even aware the certificates had an expiry date and by the time of the
> first posting it was already too late.
> 
> As I found this morning:
> 
> Once the certificate has expired it does not appear in your list at
> all, although the original .tq6 file is still in the folder. There is
> therefore no certificate to click on in tqslcert and the only option
> available is to request a new certificate (and of course you no longer
> have a valid certificate to sign it with). Doing this may well require
> you to send your validation information to ARRL again.
> 
> The LOTW site indicates I should have received an email telling me to
> renew before it expired, but that would have gone to my old email
> address and probably went in the BTY Spamguard bucket. It also
> helpfully says 'it is important to renew your certificates before they
> expire!" (their exclamation mark).
> 
> I imagine MANY others have encountered this problem. Any idea how to
> best get round it? I have currently produced a .tq5 for submittal for
> a new certificate but am hesitating at the moment to send it off.
> 
> 73 Dave G3YMC
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