[Dx-qsl] IOTA LOTW

Sun Aug 7 12:50:00 EDT 2005

iota lotw. talk about alphabet soup!

i'm not really doing iota (yet), but here's a gentle request/suggestion. 
when you island hoppers fill out the info for your LOTW, please be sure to use 
the XX-999 format for your iota id (such as NA-001). in this day and age of 
computers, standardization is real helpful. i've pulled my lotw qsls down 
to my pc and sorting by various fields. i have found iotas expressed like 
NA1, NA01, NA001, NA-1, NA-01, NA-001, NA 01, etc. i know i can go in and edit, 
but i'm a lazy, old guy. and non-islanders - leave it blank (not "n/a", 
"none", etc)

it's coming that one of these days IOTA will accept LOTW data. so you REAL 
IOTAers should be pushing this. remember, computers are dumb machines and 
only do what us smart humans tell them to do ;-)

take care. i gotta go work AS-116. hihi
73 de STEVE, KZ2I
CHARLOTTE, NC USA