I use Logic software for normal logging, awards tracking and for contesting. I should learn N1MM for when I help out with a team effort and if they use that. I believe the author was one of the original authors for the LOTW format.
http://www.hosenose.com/logic/default.aspx Be that as it may, this software makes it incredibly simple to update both LOTW at ARRL and download to the LOTW tracking in the software. I have 97 confirmed in cards & LOTW on 17M and when I get the next 3 I will have enough to submit for 9 band DXCC. When I go to organize what to submit I tell the award tracking software to use cards first and LOTW 2nd and it creates a list of exactly what I need to submit. To download my LOTW incoming confirmations takes about 10 seconds to do. To submit I have to select what QTH & time period to choose from so it takes longer but it's normally a 20 second procedure to submit my weekly uploads. I would expect using a non-automated system instead could be an issue. Gary KA1J > ARRL 160 meter contest is based on *Sections*. KP2 and KP4 are > *SECTIONS* as are South Florida, North Florida, West Central Florida > and any other section. It makes no earthly sense to change the rules > for one or two sections after thirty plus years of the contest. > > If you don't like the rules, find a different contest. > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV > > > On 12/18/2012 5:41 PM, Herb Schoenbohm wrote: > > Joe, I don't ask for both....just wish to be treated the same way > > as another station a few miles north (VP2V) . Actually there is > > little "DX" on during this contest compared to the others like CQ > > and TBDC. The ARRL has a list of DXCC entities which works for all > > their other contests but for some strange reason disallows U.S. > > Territories for their 160 meter contest. Makes no sense. > > > > > > Herb, KV4FZ > > > > > > > > > > > > On 12/18/2012 6:08 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: > >> > >> Herb, > >> > >> > I complained in past posts about the lack of fairness in the ARRL > >> > 160 Meter Contest for not treating the U.S. Territories as DX, no > >> > not even KP1 or KP5, none. But with the ARRL 10 Meter contest > >> > that followed, stations located in the U.S. Territories are > >> > indeed DX as it should be. Why in the world won't anyone on the > >> > CAC or at HQ realize that there is no acceptable reason for not > >> > correcting this problem. or if there is they aren't saying. > >> > >> Calling KP2 and KP4 DX for the ARRL 160 Meter Contest would mean > >> that you *could not work DX.* You have bitched for years that DX > >> thought the could not work you - I can find the references in the > >> archives going back almost to be beginning of this list) but it > >> would mean that you got to count each QSO with the rest of us on > >> the mainland as 5 points instead of 2 points. Now you want to be > >> able to work DX but count all your QSOs as five points instead of > >> two? > >> > >> Do you want to be DX or work everybody? Take your pick but don't > >> act like a two year old and say "both!" > >> > >> 73, > >> > >> ... Joe, W4TV > >> > >> > >> On 12/18/2012 3:41 PM, herbs wrote: > >>> After several frustrating weeks of trying to figure out why > >>> my ARRL LOTW uploads were not registering I decided to > >>> contact the company. It seems they are back logged beyond > >>> comprehension. Not even the most recent DX-Peditions who > >>> have uploaded all there logs are showing up. As a result > >>> confirmations will not show either. I certainly hope that > >>> some DX-ers don't get bumped from the Honor Roll because of > >>> this slow down in accreditation. LOTW used to be very fast > >>> and now it is so slow to almost not be worth the money > >>> charged for the service. > >>> > >>> I complained in past posts about the lack of fairness in the > >>> ARRL 160 Meter Contest for not treating the U.S. Territories > >>> as DX, no not even KP1 or KP5, none. But with the ARRL 10 > >>> Meter contest that followed, stations located in the U.S. > >>> Territories are indeed DX as it should be. Why in the world > >>> won't anyone on the CAC or at HQ realize that there is no > >>> acceptable reason for not correcting this problem. or if > >>> there is they aren't saying. > >>> > >>> I struggle to find out who is responsible for prohibiting > >>> this correction. HQ tells me to write the CAC members and > >>> the CAC members tell me they have no power to do anything > >>> unless they are "tasked" by those in command at HQ. I see > >>> how easy it was to give Ontario more sections and even in > >>> the ARRL 10 Meter Contest you get multipliers by working > >>> "Mexican" states that nobody knows about, that some how > >>> found relevance...I don't know how this is logically done > >>> but someone must have the way to make things happen at HQ. > >>> I presume that there are some fundemental democratic > >>> principles that would allow for debate fo this topic so I > >>> can make my case on behalf of the much malighed U.S. > >>> Territories in the structure of this contest's rules. > >>> > >>> If you know what to do. Please let me know. > >>> > >>> 73, > >>> > >>> Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground > >>> whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground > >> whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell > > > > _______________________________________________ > > It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground > > whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell > > > _______________________________________________ > It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground > whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell > _______________________________________________ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
