[digitalradio] Re: LOTW Olivia, not a lot !
--- 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 03:15:49For 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
Re: [digitalradio] Re: LOTW Olivia, not a lot !
mulveyraa2 wrote: -- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com, Chuck Mayfield - AA5J 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 You may be right, Rich, but my callsign is good at QRZ. The address their matches the one at FCC, I have been an ARRL member continuously since I was first licensed. Are you licensed? Why don't you use your call sign in your signature? Since you seem to know all about LOTW, perhaps you can tell me why there is a default start date of 1945 11 01 on that form? Also, why are there not instructions on that form? Chuck AA5J
[digitalradio] Re: LOTW Olivia, not a lot !
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Chuck Mayfield - AA5J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mulveyraa2 wrote: -- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com, Chuck Mayfield - AA5J 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 You may be right, Rich, but my callsign is good at QRZ. The address their matches the one at FCC, I have been an ARRL member continuously since I was first licensed. That's all very nice, but it really doesn't have any relevance to signing up for LOTW. As others have noted, you don't need to be an ARRL member to use it. I'm not sure why you seem to think that your address as posted at QRZ has anything to do with the matter, either, since, as far as I know, there's no connection between QRZ and the ARRL. Are you licensed? Yep. Why don't you use your call sign in your signature? Because it's irrelevant to the matter? Since you seem to know all about LOTW, perhaps you can tell me why there is a default start date of 1945 11 01 on that form? Also, why are there not instructions on that form? I'm not sure where you got the idea that I know all about LOTW. My contribution has been to actually read the error message you got - information which you had before anybody else, and could have utilized just as easily. If you're interested in finding out why the ARRL chose those defaults and don't have instructions you're capable of understanding, you'd be better off actually asking the ARRL and their software developers, I suspect. Perhaps you could offer suggestions as to how they can improve the process. - Rich
[digitalradio] Re: LOTW Olivia, not a lot !
I think I can understand why. Why does it have to be so complicated to get a cert with lotw? Chuck, aa5j PS I am debating whether or not it is more trouble than it is worth, since I do not chase dx. Actually, I just re-read that. They were not QSL'd , just QSOs. I found a bunch of Olivia and MT63 QSOs I had not uploaded to LOTW. I just uploaded them now. I found it terribly complicated but decided to stick with it. Andy K3UK
[digitalradio] Re: LOTW Olivia, not a lot !
Yes Peter, I do. Andy. Hope you're sending your LoTW QSL records (ALL of them, not just Olivia) to hb9bza for his LoTW users database project (http://www.hb9bza.net/lotw/). I find it very helpful when I see a station on the waterfall and I can tell that they're known to QSL via LoTW. For me, it general makes the QSL faster and more certain. If you're interested in LoTW, contributing to hb9bza's project is one way to help the community. de Peter K1PGV
