Simon, et al...
I recently had the opportunity to visit ARRL HQ and met the ONE man who
takes care of ALL the programming for LoTW as well as the IT services for
the entire HQ building. Your comment is unfounded, a lot of folks have the
impression that the ARRL is staffed to the hilt, it is not! Most staffers
have multiple jobs with in their areas of expertise. In fact only one guy
sorts all the cards for the Outgoing QSL service, imagine how many cards he
sorts a day.
I wouldn't be so quick to jump; could LoTW be improved, sure, but how about
some patience. I find it relatively easy to use and any time I have had
problems an e-mail to lotw-help has been responded to in less than 24 hours
and the fix accomplished usually with in the next 24.
73 de Bruce, N7TY
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Bruce C. Thompson
Gabrielle T. Steinau
Coronado, CA
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-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Simon Brown (HB9DRV)
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 01:06
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] LOTW User Update
This is my option, I consider myself to be a professional software engineer.
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The LOTW developers are more interested in technology than developing
user-friendly software.
Given the wealth of programming expertise the ARRL can draw on LOTW is so
far nothing to be proud of. It could be far better, however few commercial
organisations in the Ham arena produce high-quality programs so LOTW hardly
has high standards to meet.
$ set rant/off
Simon Brown
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http://blog.hb9drv.ch/
----- Original Message -----
From: <RLVZ@aol.com>
>
> I can certainly see where only 1/3 of the ARRL Officials are using LOTW.
> It's not used friendly and too difficult to install and maintain. The
> ARRL is
> overly concerned about QSL security.
>
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