--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Chuck Mayfield - AA5J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are probably right, Danny. However, I neither know nor care what > "DXCC Entity" I am in and I got the following back from the request: > > Processing file 'AA5J.tq5' > > 2007-01-03 03:15:49 Started processing your New Certificate Request. > 2007-01-03 03:15:49 For call sign: AA5J > 2007-01-03 03:15:49 For DXCC Entity: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (291) > 2007-01-03 03:15:49 For QSOs not before: 1945-11-01 00:00:00 > 2007-01-03 03:15:49 For QSOs not after: <none> > 2007-01-03 03:15:50 Call sign, DXCC Entity and QSO date range don't match up > 2007-01-03 03:15:50 **Your certificate request contains error(s); please correct and resubmit. > 2007-01-03 03:15:50 See http://www.arrl.org/lotw/faq.html for more information. > > I suppose next I will be bounced for the 1945 start date ... > >
You're not reading the error message it gave you. It says that "Call sign, DXCC Entity and QSO date range don't match up". Note the "and". Your submission indicates that you've held AA5J continuously from 1945-11-01 to the present day. Your QRZ info indicates that you were born in 1941, and previously held the call WD5FBQ. So unless you were licenced as WD5FBQ before you were 4 years old, of course it's going to reject your submission. You can't just pick random dates. Callsigns get re-used over time, and if you're just picking dates out of a hat, you'll interfere with someone who legitimately held that call at some other time. If you enter your data as asked, LOTW is trivial to sign up for and use. - Rich
