[Dx4win] More about LoTW credits

[K2DBK - David]

Ken,
         It doesn't matter whether or not a QSO you and another 
station have made has been confirmed on eQSL (or via email or even 
good old-fashioned cardboard). "Confirming" it in your own log just 
says that you are comfortable that it's been confirmed. The confirmed 
flag in your log has no bearing on the information that's uploaded to 
the LoTW. The only way that LoTW will consider a QSO to be confirmed 
is if both parties have uploaded their properly signed (with their 
private keys) logs to LoTW and there are matching QSO records.

         The private key is only used to sign your log so that the 
LoTW server can be sure that it was really you who uploaded the QSO 
information, and not anyone else.

         There's a good article in the September 2005 QST by Ward, 
N0AX, which is also available on the ARRL website as a PDF file: 
http://www.arrl.org/lotw/silver.pdf that explains the whole process 
in some detail. Hopefully Ward's writeup will help you to understand 
the process and why "forging" in the way that you've described just 
isn't an easy thing to do. (I'll never say that it's impossible, but 
it certainly would not be trivial).

         73,
                 David, K2DBK

At 10:49 PM 2/21/2007, Ken Kopp wrote:
>Thanks Jim,
>
>I do have my private key and I understand that it is my
>submitted QSL's validation for my log's acceptance into
>the LoTW file in Newington.
>
>If I were to enter an e.QSL into my log and then submit that log to
>the LoTW program how would LoTW know if the QSO has been
>confirmed via e.QSL?  Would LoTW care?
>
>Or to put it another way .... are you saying that an e.QSL'd QSO
>from W7XYZ in my log submission would -only- be accepted by
>the LoTW program if there is already a private key associated
>with W7XYZ?  If W7XYZ does -not- hold a private key would
>LoTW accept a "laundered-via-my-log" e.QSL to me from him?
>
>Thank you for your patience and help.  I'm obviously having trouble
>understanding this issue.
>
>73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
>k0pp at arrl.net
>or
>k0pp at ixpres.com
>
>
>
>
>--- Ken Kopp <k0pp at ixpres.com> wrote:
>
>>Has  anyone managed to disguise/legitimatize e.QSL's
>>and use them for credit via LoTW by importing them into
>>their logging program and then into a LoTW submission?
>
>Can't happen.  Your QSOs are signed with YOUR private key, and their QSOs are
>signed by THEIR private key.  The private keys are issued by ARRL, and must be
>certified via postal mail to your home address.  There is no way to cheat the
>system in the way you describe.
>
>73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
>--
>Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
>USA +978-251-9933, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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