W5GA
01-24-2012, 05:39 PM
From the OPDX bulletin:
CQ Communications,
Inc. (CQ) and ARRL – the national association for Amateur Radio, have
signed an agreement to begin providing support for CQ-sponsored operating
awards by the ARRL's Logbook of the World (LoTW) electronic confirmation
system.. The agreement was announced jointly today by ARRL Chief Operating
Officer Harold Kramer, WJ1B, and CQ Communications President Richard Ross,
K2MGA.
CQ's awards will be the first non-ARRL awards supported by LoTW and
will be phased in, beginning with the CQ WPX award. Additional CQ awards
will follow. The ARRL's LoTW system, an interactive database recording
contacts between radio amateurs was created in 2003 and has been
adopted by 47,500 radio "hams" worldwide. It already has records of
400 million contacts and grows weekly. The target date for beginning
LoTW support for WPX is April 1, 2012. Amateurs will be able to use
LoTW logs to generate lists of confirmed contacts to be submitted for
WPX credit. Standard LoTW credit fees and CQ award fees will apply.
ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, observed that this
step gives radio amateurs throughout the world an inexpensive and
convenient means of gaining credits toward CQ’s popular operating
awards. "LoTW has significantly increased interest and participation
in the ARRL's DXCC, Worked All States and VUCC awards programs. We
anticipate a similarly positive response to the addition of the CQ
WPX award. Amateurs will be able to spend more time operating and
less time chasing QSL cards."
CQ President Richard Ross, K2MGA, said he is very pleased to be able
to move forward with Logbook support for CQ awards. "We have had
excellent results with electronic confirmations for several years,"
he said, "and I am glad that we are now able to begin expanding that
convenience to those participants in our award programs who use Logbook
of the World. We look forward to a smooth launch for WPX, and to the
expansion of LoTW support to include the rest of our award programs
as well."
ARRL (www.arrl.org (http://www.arrl.org/)) is the national association for Amateur Radio in
the United States and publisher of its membership journal QST. CQ
Communications, Inc. (www.cqcomm.com (http://www.cqcomm.com/)) is publisher of CQ Amateur Radio
and several other magazines. There are currently over 700,000 Amateur
Radio licensees in the USA and approximately 2.5 million worldwide.
To learn more go to < www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world (http://www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world)>.
CQ Communications,
Inc. (CQ) and ARRL – the national association for Amateur Radio, have
signed an agreement to begin providing support for CQ-sponsored operating
awards by the ARRL's Logbook of the World (LoTW) electronic confirmation
system.. The agreement was announced jointly today by ARRL Chief Operating
Officer Harold Kramer, WJ1B, and CQ Communications President Richard Ross,
K2MGA.
CQ's awards will be the first non-ARRL awards supported by LoTW and
will be phased in, beginning with the CQ WPX award. Additional CQ awards
will follow. The ARRL's LoTW system, an interactive database recording
contacts between radio amateurs was created in 2003 and has been
adopted by 47,500 radio "hams" worldwide. It already has records of
400 million contacts and grows weekly. The target date for beginning
LoTW support for WPX is April 1, 2012. Amateurs will be able to use
LoTW logs to generate lists of confirmed contacts to be submitted for
WPX credit. Standard LoTW credit fees and CQ award fees will apply.
ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, observed that this
step gives radio amateurs throughout the world an inexpensive and
convenient means of gaining credits toward CQ’s popular operating
awards. "LoTW has significantly increased interest and participation
in the ARRL's DXCC, Worked All States and VUCC awards programs. We
anticipate a similarly positive response to the addition of the CQ
WPX award. Amateurs will be able to spend more time operating and
less time chasing QSL cards."
CQ President Richard Ross, K2MGA, said he is very pleased to be able
to move forward with Logbook support for CQ awards. "We have had
excellent results with electronic confirmations for several years,"
he said, "and I am glad that we are now able to begin expanding that
convenience to those participants in our award programs who use Logbook
of the World. We look forward to a smooth launch for WPX, and to the
expansion of LoTW support to include the rest of our award programs
as well."
ARRL (www.arrl.org (http://www.arrl.org/)) is the national association for Amateur Radio in
the United States and publisher of its membership journal QST. CQ
Communications, Inc. (www.cqcomm.com (http://www.cqcomm.com/)) is publisher of CQ Amateur Radio
and several other magazines. There are currently over 700,000 Amateur
Radio licensees in the USA and approximately 2.5 million worldwide.
To learn more go to < www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world (http://www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world)>.