[Dxpeditions] Re: QSLing

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Filing fee?  Since when does LotW have a filing fee?

Mike, I think someone has seriously misled you.  I am not aware of ANY
"filing fees" to upload to LotW.  The ONLY fees that I am aware of is the
charge per credit when you apply on-line for an award -- but that miniscule
per credit cost is borne by the station applying for the award, not the
station uploading the log.

As per the LotW Users FAQ page [which duplicates the main one that you can
reach from www.arrl.org] (https://p1k.arrl.org/lotw/faq#cost):
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"How much does it cost to use Logbook of the World?"

There is no charge for digital certificates or for submitting log data to
the LoTW system. A charge is levied only when you apply for an award using
QSL matches obtained via LoTW. (Note that there's a charge for awards no
matter how you apply for them).

The specific fees charged for using Logbook data for awards vary depending
on how many credits you buy at one time. See the Fees page for details.
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The Fees page (https://p1k.arrl.org/lotw/fees) explicitly refers to the
charges per award credit.  Not to uploading.

If you need any help massaging a log into the proper format for ADIF for
LotW, let me know and I'll do whatever I can to help you.  Least I can do in
return for all of the great contest QSO's from V26B  that I've gotten from
you guys over the years!

73, ron w3wn

-----Original Message-----
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:38:18 EDT
From: KA2AEV at aol.com
Subject: [Dxpeditions] Re: QSLing
To: dxpeditions at mailman.qth.net

In a message dated 8/26/2007
1:04:42 P.M.  Eastern Daylight Time,
ve2dc at videotron.ca writes:

As a matter of  curiosity, Frosty, from the QSL Manager's point of view...
Is
LotW a bad  idea? It seems to me that it would reduce the work
considerably... Or is it  just the idea that he thought you needed an
explanation of how it worked  odd...

Mel, VE2DC


Again my apologies for a delayed  answer
Mel as a QSL manager LOTW doesn't mean that much to me
because the  group I belong to, Team Antigua V26B, shares the
expense for the QSLing but I  can see that the filing fee for LOTW
could really bite a QSL manager for  a  large expedition and then
there is the time expenditure that it  takes for the manager to
upload the logs to the LOTW which people say  doesn't take that
long to do, but when you are handling logs of 10K +++  QSO
totals and you screw something up someplace (which I did the  first
couple of times I did it, until a Teammate took it over for me)
it  gets frustrating,
As for the explaination for Frosty from that Op who  thought he
didn't understand how it worked, I'm not sure how his letter  received
was worded, but you have to see some of the crap I receive from  Ops
about QSLing practices! Its almost comical!!!
So this is how I see it  from my end,
Hope this explains it a bit
73 de Mike
KA2AEV




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