LotW is a QSO matching system that attempts to match your uploaded QSOs with uploaded QSOs from other users. It was never intended to be a QSO logging system. The first thing to square away in your mind is that LotW is not a QSO logging system. What I am looking for is a tutorial or a series of tutorials on the entire process, from radio contact to completed LOTW entry.Įven just a flow chart/checklist would help. The click-on for ADIF on the "Getting Started" LOTW page sends you to a discussion page about updates to ADIF over the years, but, NOT a how to page. I have a LOTW account, but LOTW assumes you use ADIF or Cabrillo files, assumes know how to enter data into those file formats, and upload them as a batch file to LOTW, NOT online one contact at a time like QRZ. QRZ says they can download LOTW entries to your QRZ logbook, but since I don't have data uploaded to LOTW, QRZ can't download any thing. On QRZ you open the logbook, enter the contact data, one contact data set at a time, save it, then enter the data for the next contact, and you do this all online. I have used the QRZ logbook function since 2010 to enter contacts, and once you register it is pretty intuitive/user friendly. I cannot fathom the process of how to add contacts to LOTW.Īfter an HF operating session, I usually have two or three contacts to log.
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