Can someone explain this WAHOO-LOTW.
David
KE4YYD
----- Original Message -----
From: "R Johnson" <k1vu@tmlp.com>
To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:49 AM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] WAHOO - LoTW Double Whammy(and a half)
> Hi:
> I've been sitting here with 49 states confirmed by LoTW.
> All I needed was Alabama for LoTW WAS.
>
> I know many of you needed ND,SD,or WY to complete WAS and were
> wondering if news of LoTW had reached those states.
>
> I had 44 Alabama QSO's, but nothing confirmed by LoTW,
> and I was also starting to wonder if the news of LoTW had even
> reached Alabama.
>
> Well this weekend I worked the CQVHF Contest.
> Within 19 minutes after the contest I had my .TQ8 file uploaded.
>
> About 3 Hours later I had my first match from N9AKR (Thank you)
>
> This morning when I checked LoTW Awards I found that K4XR had
> uploaded his log from ALABAMA !!!
> (TNX, I'm bowing down and flagellating :-) >:D< :-*!!!)
>
> Oh Yeah, the WAMMIES:
> 1 - AL gave me WAS Basic and Phone.
> 2 - AL gave me a new LoTW State on 6M. (38, with 17 LoTW confirmed)
>
> The 1/2 Whammy:
> I worked AF6O giving me CA, a NEW State on 6M (FN42 to DM14) !!!
> Unfortunately it appears that he is not a LoTW user yet.
> One can only hope :-).
>
> In the first 24 hours I have had about a 16% LoTW return rate for CQVHF
> !!!
>
> Some of my contest return rates have been as high as 30% !!!
>
> I might say that contesters seem to be more lightly to use LoTW than
> the average Ham based on my LoTW returns. FD rates even lower !!!
>
> VHF Contesters seem to have a higher return rate than HF Contesters.
> My personal observation.
>
> My overall LoTW return rate from LoTW is 16.34% since day one after Beta
> !!!
>
> SOAPBOX ON:
>
> Lastly, I must voice my usual complaint about the LoTW users who fail
> to set up their "Station Data" to include their CQZ, ITUZ, and Grid.
> like "Touch Holes", EVERYONE has one of those !!!
> "U.S. Counties" and IOTA will vary by location.
>
> All one has to do is Edit their "Station Data" and re-sign ALL of
> their logs (create a new .TQ8 file or files) and resubmit to LoTW.
> The new submission will supercede the old submissions !!!
> This makes sure that EVERY QSO gets the FULL the credits that
> LoTW provides for now and in the future !!!
>
> DXCC isn't everything that LoTW can support !!!
>
> SOAPBOX OFF:
>
> LoTW works FB as far as it presently goes.
>
> It works better when you supply all of your station info !!!
>
> It would work even better if it supported "VUCC" !!!
>
> N1NN:
> Please take note, and thank for the 6M LoTW Contact !!! (Hint Hint).
>
> 73
> Bob, K1VU
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