[LogPlus] LOTW - first time user's report

Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:00:02 -0700

Hello All
This is from the Central Arizona DX Assoc. mail list...
Thought I'd pass it on !!!!!

Allen Sklar, W7AS
Tempe AZ USA

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: LOTW - first time user's report
> From: "Jim McDonald" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, February 08, 2004 7:45 am
> To: [email protected]
> 
> I had procrastinated uploading logs to LOTW.  It is more involved if
> you've
> operated with the same call from more than one location or with a
> portable
> (N7US/5).  I uploaded my N7US QSOs that were loaded in DXbase yesterday
> with
> three separate files: Phoenix/Glendale/Phoenix, New Mexico, and Mesa. 
> I had
> to split out QSOs from New Mexico in case others wanted QSLs from that
> state
> and submitted the other two with the correct grid squares.  I'll
> resubmit
> the New Mexico log as N7US/5 when I get that certificate, as the /5
> was
> required for some RTTY contests.
> 
> I uploaded 8917 QSOs and had 754 matches.  The number of matches
> should
> increase when I resubmit the N7US/5 file.
> 
> All of the pre-1992 QSOs that I uploaded were already QSLed with cards
> that
> I had entered into DXbase.  I just couldn't bring myself to enter
> thousands
> of really old QSOs, 1964-1992, that I'd likely never get cards for. 
> My
> opinion is that not many are going to submit the really old logs to
> LOTW
> either.
> 
> I have lots of countries worked but not confirmed on RTTY because I
> haven't
> sent cards yet.  I picked up 5 new countries/entities on RTTY with my
> first
> upload.  Quite a few of those I already had cards for were there too. 
> It
> seems many of the participants in the January 2004 ARRL RTTY Round-Up
> had
> submitted LOTW also.  Once you've had a submission, sending another
> file is
> a snap.  The TQSL utility will convert a Cabrillo contest file for
> submission.
> 
> I requested NT1N of ARRL that they consider adding an option of a
> comma-delimited file of QSLs matched to make it easy to review the
> confirmations in Excel or another program.
> 
> I like it and think it will only get better.
> 
> Jim N7US
> 
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