[Dx-qsl] AR - VE7CC

Sat Dec 31 22:35:05 EST 2005

I have had hams send me just a letter, Bible verses from missionary 
hams, or even photo postcards ( not printed QSL cards) confirming QSOs. 
 From what the DXCC has told me in the past as long as whatever is sent 
shows the date, band, callsign(s), etc. it is fine.
When I was in Belize (V31) in the 1980s I made so few contacts that I 
talked the hotel where I was staying into giving me enough hotel 
postcards, I brought them back and addressed them here from the callbook 
addresses, and then sent them back to some friends in Belize who mailed 
them with V31 stamps and postmark to make it a little more "official." 
 One of them went to my XYL Cheryl (WY5H) and the DXCC desk accepted the 
postmarked hotel postcard she submitted since that was where I operated 
from, with no qualms.
Tom, WW5L
V31EF, G0/WW5L, 7P8TA
Robert G. Schaffrath wrote:
> Even if it didn't print cards but just issued an official verifiable 
> document confirming the QSO I would be happy with that. I have 
> several IOTA's confirmed only in LOTW and are therefor not usable in 
> the current IOTA program. There have been the rumors that IOTA might 
> eventually work with LOTW but one glaring problem is the requirement 
> for the island name. One example that comes to mind is a contact I 
> have with EA4DX/HK0 on NA-049 (Providencia Island). The DXCC entity 
> is listed as San Adres Island in LOTW but nowhere is the island name 
> listed other than as NA-049. So either the RSGB is going to have to 
> accept just the IOTA number or LOTW is going to have to be retrofitted 
> to accept the actual island name.
>> Still it would be nice to be able to pay the ARRL to issue a signed 
> document confirming selected QSO's which could then be sent to any 
> awards manager as proof of a contact just like a QSL card.
>> I should note that I have the IOTA number NA-026 defined in my LOTW 
> profile so any contacts I log from here are tagged with NA-026. 
> However, nowhere is it indicated that I am on Long Island and not one 
> of the smaller islands such as Fire, Plum, Governors, etc.
>> 73 & HNY,
> Robert de N2JTX
>>> Danny Douglas wrote:
>>>>> Better yet: just make the LOTW system print cards too. That way it 
>>> would
>>> have nothing to do with eQSL, and you would have your cake and eat 
>>> it too.
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