Ouch!!!!!!! + Ham spirit. 73, Dave, AA6YQ -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

+ AA6YQ comments below Thanks Dave, I know you like to help us by providing links, but that list does not allow the list to be printed band by band/mode by mode. It does not contain the names and addr

A free DXCC list from the ARRL is available here: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/DXCC/2022_DXCC_Current.pdf 73, Dave, AA6YQ

I was referring to the Challenge award NOT LOTW in asking how credits are applied. + They are the same, Neil. A DXCC credit applies to a confirmed QSO - whether the QSO is confirmed via QSL card or vi

All I am is asking is a clarification on how the credits are arrived at. I do not find a clear and cogent explanation posted on the ARRL web site. If you can point me as to where the credit scheme is

Furthermore, Ria, your claim posted here that "LoTW has some serious underlying problems which makes adding additional awards/events problematic." is also false: 1. Starting in 2013, LoTW was successf

I didn't post a personal insult, you took it as that. + Declaring me to be the master of inanity is a personal insult. A personal insult is you telling others you'd short the stock of my employer beca

Open governance doesn't mean I should just subject myself to people taking shots at the League at me. + The League exists to serve its members. If you are unwilling to hear civil criticism of the Leag

+ AA6YQ comments below I ask myself what �protracted criticism� really means, and why would it be censored. Having done considerable public speaking to large groups (audiences exceeding 100) in the pa

+ AA6YQ comments below Thanks for posting…here’s the phrase that should mean that ARRL staff monitor and participate in each of these Forums: “The new groups are aimed at enhancing communication among

"ARRL’s Committee on Communication with ARRL Members has opened new online forums where all radio amateurs — ARRL members and non-members alike — can discuss issues and topics in two-way conversation

The Board with a majority vote can literally override anything. Some things like articles of association need a higher threshold. DXCC does not. There's really no way around this as it's pretty much h

‘The original question’ I mentioned was from Frank K4FMH, who asked “Was there ever a theory or concept by the ARRL or any other group about what an “entity” is to begin with?” – a reasonable query. +

+ AA6YQ comments below I don't find LoTW hard to use. Most of the complexity is hidden by DX Lab Suite's DX Keeper. It uploads new QSOs and downloads confirmations, pretty much at the click of a butto

.... so I guess an equivalent dual structure in LoTW (adding a low-integrity entry level with reduced authentication criteria - less checks on locations, licenses etc.) might perhaps double the number

While I suspect that more “serious DXers” use LoTW, I do believe that “nobody uses eQSL” is quite incorrect. + 150,404 Authenticity Guaranteed users are hardly "nobody". + Ops pursuing CQ's USA-CA awa

eQSL claims they have over 375,000 registered users. + Only QSOs with "Authenticity Guaranteed" (AG) users of eQSL count for awards sponsored by CQ - like WAZ. As of Sunday, there were 150,404 AG user

Why would people not use LOTW? I would assume the cost to verify a digitally signed card or use a LOTW contact would be the same price or should be. That is essentially what LOTW is less the card and

Making LoTW easier to use (and manage and maintain) makes more sense, along with better documentation and promotion/incentives to encourage more of these QSL emailers to join the programme. For exampl

None of the emailed cards I’ve received have had digital signatures. But if they did, I would support them being accepted. + An email message digitally-signed with the sender's LOTW "Callsign Certific