[VHFcontesting] [VHF] Request for Stop-Gap Relief on VUCC/LoTW

[Les Rayburn]

Mark,

That's great! Please share your feelings with your division direction and 
Section Manager. It might also help if your local card checker made it known 
that he'd received this request, and was in favor of the idea.

Who else should we direct this request to inside the ARRL HQ?

73,

Les Rayburn, N1LF



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From: "Mark K3MSB" <mark.k3msb at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 6:41 PM
To: "Les Rayburn" <les at highnoonfilm.com>
Cc: "VHF List Non-Contest" <vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu>; "VHF Contesting List" 
<vhfcontesting at contesting.com>; "Greg Sarratt" <gsarratt at arrl.org>; "Jay 
Isbell" <jay at arklog.com>
Subject: Re: [VHF] Request for Stop-Gap Relief on VUCC/LoTW

> I certainly would.
>
> My DXCC / VUCC Card Checker is local,  so I just go to his house when the
> need arises.
>
> I've offered to log into LoTW right then and there to verify stuff,  but 
> he
> says he can't do it,  although he'd like to.
>
> 73 Mark K3MSB
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Les Rayburn <les at highnoonfilm.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd like other VHF Men to formally join me in calling for the ARRL to
>> implement a "stop-gap" measure in regards to accepting LoTW verifications
>> for
>> VUCC credit.
>>
>> Namely, I'd like for the league to authorize card checkers to accept 
>> print
>> outs from the LoTW web site (verified online directly by the card checker
>> as a
>> "second check") to count as verification for contacts. This would allow
>> someone seeking VUCC to print out their credits from the LoTW web site, 
>> and
>> bring them along with their forms, fees, and "hard copy" QSL cards to a
>> hamfest and get all their credits counted.
>>
>> My understanding is that some card checkers are already doing this, 
>> though
>> I
>> don't see how they're getting around the rules on that one. This would
>> formalize the exception that is already being granted in some cases, and
>> take
>> some of the heat off the ARRL programmers while they work on getting the
>> web
>> site completed.
>>
>> Card checkers could request to verify the results online, and this could 
>> be
>> accomplished easily at most hamfests with a laptop or mobile phone. The
>> person
>> seeking the award can type in their own password, so the system isn't
>> compromised, and an independent second check is available.
>>
>> I may be missing a huge "down  side" to this idea, and if so, please feel
>> free
>> to point it out. But the benefit to the league is that it could be
>> implemented
>> with an e-mail to card checkers, or a mailing at worse. The change would 
>> be
>> swift, immediate, and satisfy all parties. Where I come from, we call 
>> that
>> a
>> pretty good compromise.
>>
>> Who will join me in requesting this?
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Les Rayburn, N1LF
>> EM63
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