This is an excerpt from the weekly ARRL Letter. It has taken awhile to get
rolling but it is working very well. I've heard a lot of moaning and groaning
because it's to complicated or to time consuming etc. So far I have DXCC so at
least 100 countries have figured it out. It sure makes post contest stuff easy
because all you need to do is upload your log to LOTW and you will begin
receiving QSL's. It is a firm part of my post contest routine: email the log to
the contest sponsor, brag to 3830, upload to LOTW and the contest is finished,
it's really easy.
Try it, you might like it............
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The ARRL Letter
Vol. 24, No. 27
July 15, 2005
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* Logbook of the World reaches milestone: The ARRL's Logbook of the World
(LoTW) now has surpassed 10,000 registered users worldwide! LoTW, which went
on line September 15, 2003, provides a global repository of participants'
logs. When both participants in a QSO submit matching QSO records to LoTW,
the result is a "QSL credit" that can be eventually applied toward many
awards. To date, more than 75.1 million QSO records have been entered into
the system, resulting in nearly 3.5 million QSL records or matches among
uploaded logs. At present ARRL LoTW QSO credits are applicable only toward
DXCC, but plans call for supporting other awards, such as WAS and VUCC, in
the future. To ensure system integrity, LoTW users first must obtain a free
digital certificate, which is used when submitting log data to the database.
Users incur a fee only when they apply QSL matches from LoTW toward a
particular award. The specific fee varies depending on the number of credits
purchased at one time. The LoTW Web page <http://www.arrl.org/lotw> has
complete information on how to register and use the system.
MAL N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
http://geocities.com/n7mal/
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