[VHFcontesting] LOTW & VHF

[Marshall-K5QE]

Hello to all....here is just another reason why LOTW is such a poor 
system.  IF I send in a log with contacts in EM31, EM21, EM20, and EM10, 
every line of that log will have the correct grid already in it.  So 
there is NO reason for me to have to tell TQSL(whatever that is) what 
grid I was in.  The logs already show that.  WHY will LOTW not accept 
the grid that is listed in each contact rather than requiring someone to 
break up their logs into 4 different logs, one for each grid, and then 
send them in 4 different times??  Most serious rovers will not even fool 
with it.

Someone asked why VHFers won't use LOTW....this is just ONE of many 
reasons.  ONCE, but never again, our QSL manager, Joey-W5TFW, tried to 
enter the K5N DXpedition contacts into LOTW.  It turned into a 
nightmare.  Stupid LOTW put every contact into the same grid....never 
mind the grid actually shown in the contact.  It took a guru from LOTW 
some serious work to straighten that one out.....actually, I am not sure 
that it every got sorted out.

IF you are in love with this incredibly badly designed and executed 
system, then nothing I can say will change you mind.  You can't talk 
sense to heroin addicts or cigarette smokers either.

If anyone wants a QSL card from me, all they have to do is to send me 
one of theirs.  I do appreciate an addressed envelope, but whether or 
not you send one, you will get one of mine back.  This is the time 
honored QSL system in place since the beginning of Amateur Radio.  I 
don't want to see this system thrown away because people are too lazy or 
too cheap to send out a real card.

73 Marshall K5QE


On 6/26/2014 11:56 AM, Roger wrote:
> ...and please put your grid location in TQSL.  When you send signed logs to
> LOTW that don't have your grid, no grid is confirmed in LOTW for VUCC's.  If
> you have already uploaded signed logs to LOTW that don't have your grid,
> just add your grid location I TQSL and then re-sign the logs and send them
> again.  At least that's the way it used to work.
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