Oh, no question - way back in the day (early 2000s, I think), I QSLed
everything in my logs that was a first for the band and mode. I used to
go through exercises where I would sort my bureau QSLs by country, and
for the biggies, weigh the total and figure out how much postage it
would take to send them as small parcels rather than through the ARRL
outbound bureau. I remember one mailing that came to more than the $120
I mentioned above. I really don't resent the ARRL monetizing LOTW, but
with the trend toward public log, it just seems to me that it would help
encourage casual ops "DXing the contest" to get on if they knew that
their QSOs might count toward one or another award, so long as both
parties submitted logs.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 12/21/2019 3:12 PM, W1MD wrote:
Plus additional green stamps for return. $2 per requested qsl on average.
Hmmmm
Marty
W1MD
On Dec 21, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Jim Rhodes <jimk0xu@gmail.com> wrote:
And how much postage would you have to buy to confirm them with direct QSLs?
On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 9:41 AM N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net> wrote:
I find it extraordinary that the ARRL and CQ have done so little to
implement interoperability between their contest log-checking efforts.
Of course, ARRL might find it difficult to justify the cost of DXCC
submissions if that were the case.
I'm in the process of trying to finish my 160M DXCC - have it worked but
not confirmed - and find that a lot of QSOs, particularly old ones, are
not on LOTW. I have 160K QSOs on LOTW, most in contests, and was one of
the beta testers, but so far only 59K are confirmed by LOTW. Amusingly,
it would cost me $120 just to get DXCC credit for the QSOs that *are*
confirmed by LOTW.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 12/21/2019 12:08 AM, rjairam@gmail.com wrote:
Also true but that doesn’t mean that LoTW was not modeled after it.
Ria
N2RJ
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:47 PM Hans Brakob <kzerohb@gmail.com> wrote:
Not all contest logs find their way to LoTW.
73, de Hans, KØHB
“Just a Boy and his Radio”
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*From:* CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+kzerohb=gmail.com@contesting.com
on behalf of rjairam@gmail.com
*Sent:* Friday, December 20, 2019 7:19 PM
*To:* Michael S. Mitchell W6RW
*Cc:* James Cain; CQ-Contest Reflector
*Subject:* Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Public Logs
Wasn’t that how it was done in the old days? From what I gather, LoTW
was
designed to be a modern version of that.
73
Ria
N2RJ
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:13 PM Michael S. Mitchell W6RW <
w6rw@earthlink.net>
wrote:
I have wondered for about 50 years that if it were possible to search
the
ARRL contests logs and find your call and if you submitted a log for
the
same contest and they match if this could somehow achieve DXCC credit
for
the contact.
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