[ILQSO] Re: Log of the world

[Hank Greeb]

I suspect I'd enter calls into LOTW as 3Y4/N8XX if I were to operate 
from where ever 3Y4 happens to be (or if it happens to be).  Since the 
only "foreign" call I've used is W8CHT/VE3 years ago, I doubt I'll get 
to 3Y4 land.  I did go to Australia, and a few European countries, but 
only for business or as a tourist, not as a ham.  My friends who are 
DXers say that shows my true interest in DXing.  :)

Closest I got to being "rare" DX was in 1978, during the ARRL or CQ WW 
DX phone contest (I forget which), when our radio club borrowed my brand 
new call.  "N" prefixes and "X" suffixes were brand new, and the fellows 
operating the club station were bombarded with calls.  I might have even 
made DXCC, but I never pursued it.

I have worked all states several times during Field Day and Sweepsteaks, 
but haven't bothered to get QSL's from all the states.  Mayhap I'll try 
to do that from N9Q during ILQP.

The LOTW seems a cop-out, except I understand it's a financial drain on 
folks in developing countries, and the big guns in the developed 
countries are very eager to get confirmation.

Spark gap forever, is my motto.  :)

73 de n8xx Hg (operating as N9Q from the corner of CHAM/DOUG/EDGR/VERM 
during ILQP 2006)

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:

>--- Hank Greeb <n8xx at arrl.org> wrote:
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>>In LOTW does one absitively require /9 or /p or whatever?  I ain't never used LOTW yet, but have received cards which say I may QSL via LOTW.
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>My gut feeling is that LoTW requires an EXACT callsign match (before any other QSO information is taken into consideration), but I'd have to ask the LoTW folks to be sure.
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>73 - Jim AD1C
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