Absolutely great idea.
TBH, LoTW should become the standard solution for issuing credits for
other awards. National and local Clubs, Groups, could take advantage of it.
We've been talking about this type of solution with LU1FAM and LU5FF.
The ARRL could charge a small fee to those institutions using their LoTW
service to validate the credits.
Win-Win solution!
73,
Martin LU5DX
El 26/04/2017 a las 11:23 a.m., Pete Smith N4ZR escribió:
We all agree, I think, that casual participants are a critical part of
the total workable population in contests. I spent the first 40 years
of my contesting career working contests as a quick and relatively
easy source of award credits, and I suspect a large majority of the
stations in any contest are doing some variation on this.
There is a reasonably simple and straight-forward way to encourage
more of this, potentially yielding more people for us to work. We
need interconnection between CQ and ARRL contest databases, so that
any contact that is in both stations' log in a given contest can be
claimed for ARRL and CQ award credit without going through the QSL
card process.
I'm not underestimating the programming effort involved, I hope, but
surely some combination of volunteer and professional staff
involvement can get it done. It could start small - perhaps a pilot
involving the CQWW open log database and DXCC. Imagine the value added
to LOTW if it were the hub for this process, and the potential
increase in DXCC fees. Surely, this is a win-win proposition.
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