If all you want is a contact confirmation in the ARRL data base to be used for an award from ARRL, than by all means use LOTW.
LOTW is not “the last courtesy of a QSO is a QSL.” A QSL which can be held in you hand, can bring back a memory about the QSO, that is the last courtesy of the QSO, not some data in a data bank somewhere. As for me, all CARDS go by the buro, state side manager with SASE, or direct with SASE. Back in my hole now Bill KC4ATU > On Jul 25, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP <k2vco....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I couldn't agree with Jim more! > > I love LOTW and wish everyone would use it. > > It's not just the cost of postage for the cards themselves. I am trying to > increase my DXCC total and submitting confirmations by LOTW is so much easier > than getting cards checked by the /one/ guy in the country who can do it, or > mailing them to the ARRL in the USA and hoping that our troubled postal > service will get them there and back. > > 73, > Vic, 4X6GP > Rehovot, Israel > Formerly K2VCO > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ > > On 25 Jul 2016 21:49, Jim Brown wrote: >> On Mon,7/25/2016 11:34 AM, stan levandowski wrote: >>> On my QRZ page it says "No LoTW, no eQSL and no Buro." >> >> That may be your preference, but it causes everyone who wants a >> confirmation from you to spend money with the postal system. When we >> were kids, it cost a penny or two to send a QSL. Now, including the cost >> of printing a card, it costs someone who wants your card more than $1 >> round trip (.49 each way) in the US, more than $2 between US and Canada, >> average $3.50 to/from other countries. >> >> LOTW and eQSL are FREE and easy to use if you're using almost any of the >> popular logging software. Putting our logs on LOTW is the considerate >> thing to do. It's the RIGHT thing to do. It's the modern equivalent of >> what we said in the '50s -- "the last courtesy of a QSO is a QSL." Now, >> the last courtesy of a QSO is an upload to LOTW. >> >> 73, Jim K9YC > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to kc4...@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
