LoTW Status, 2021-11-28

 

LoTW currently supports the DXCC, VUCC, WAS, WAZ, and WPX awards.

 

Award sponsors like RAC, RDA, and WIA accept LoTW confirmations for their awards, but either employ the user’s LoTW credentials to access LoTW or accept a printout showing LoTW confirmations

LoTW hasn’t been extended to support a new Award Family since WAZ support was added in Apr 2018.

The last ARRL-sponsored on-air activity scored by LoTW was the International Grid Chase, held during each month of 2018.

 

The ARRL hasn’t added a new award since the WAS FT4 endorsement in July 2019.

 

The TQSL application continues to advance; it has been localized to 16 languages.

 

LoTW’s availability (“uptime”) exceeds 99.9%.

 

Individual QSOs and small batches of QSOs are typically processed within 1 minute of submission - except during the days following major contests, when processing times can exceed 24 hours.

 

166,374 callsigns have submitted QSOs to LoTW since inception

 

-       69,015 callsigns have submitted QSOs to LoTW in the last 12 months

-       48,701 callsigns have submitted QSOs to LoTW in the last 3 months

-       38,628 callsigns have submitted QSOs to LoTW in the last month

-       22,643 callsigns have submitted QSOs to LoTW in the last week

“In the first half of 2021, Logbook has had virtually no software resources with which to make adjustments, much less improvements” – Report of the ARRL-LoTW Committee, 2021-07

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Reports of errors or omissions would be appreciated.

de AA6YQ

 

+ AA6YQ comments below

IOTA uses LoTW confirmations.

+ You're right, Ken; thanks!

https://www.iota-world.org/info/lotw_qso_matching-en.pdf

+ Note that this is accomplished by having the user provide his or her LoTW credentials to IOTA. The ARRL receives no compensation for this access.

de AA6YQ

 

+ AA6YQ comments below

OK, I didn't know how that worked. The cost for my last endorsement didn't seem to reflect an LoTW fee.

 

I would be happy to pay IOTA for the LoTW confirmations, to be passed on to the ARRL  

+ I'm not aware of any compensation arrangement from IOTA to ARRL like the one we negotiated with CQ for WAZ and WPX. Arguably IOTA, RAC, RDA, and WIA are freeloading - though the ARRL provides them with no alternative if they want to accept LoTW confirmations. This is a shame, since a prototype web service that would both make life easier for these external award sponsors and enable the ARRL to collect (modest) annual license fees has existed for the past 5 years.

de AA6YQ

      73,

             Dave, AA6YQ

I have refrained from commenting on this debacle. However, I appreciate the efforts that folks like Ria make for us all.

Dave is tiresome as is his dislike for the ARRL management. Can we PLEASE end this BS?
Thanks    Neil   N4FN   and all stay well

Dislike or relaying the facts that we don't get from the league so that we can all make informed decisions? 

BS?  Nothing gets fixed by shoving our proverbial heads in the sand.

W0MU

+ AA6YQ comments below

I have refrained from commenting on this debacle. However, I appreciate the efforts that folks like Ria make for us all.

+ Like answering a legitimate technical question with a string of personal insults? Is that the example that an ARRL Director should set in an ARRL-sponsored online discussion group that explicitly prohibits such actions?

Dave is tiresome as is his dislike for the ARRL management. 

+ I don't dislike ARRL management, I've been voluntarily working with them for the past decade. What I dislike is poor decision-making and dishonesty. See the first paragraph of 

http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-board-grants-awards-and-recognitions