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Old February 28th 07, 03:15 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.moderated
Rich McAllister K6RFM Rich McAllister K6RFM is offline
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Default Encouraging LOTW

"Dee Flint" writes:

On Feb 27, 5:46 am, Rich McAllister K6RFM wrote:
Just had an interesting conversation on IRC with some DL hams, who
mentioned that they haven't signed up for "Logbook of the World" yet
because of the hassle.


What particular parts in the sign up process do they consider to be a
hassle? That would be the place to start in attempting to come up
with a solution.


https://p1k.arrl.org/lotw/docreq shows the procedure. US hams can
request a postcard by email/upload and that's it. DX hams have to copy
their license and another piece of government ID and send this by
international physical mail to Newington. Doesn't sound like much, but
copying and mailing documents isn't necessarily cheap or easy, and I
suspect that not everybody still has a physical copy of the license.
It sure seems like other IARU societies could be deputized to send out
local postcards without breaching security, or the ARRL could get
trustable copies of the license information. NOthing is likely to work
everywhere (some of the societies are very small and have limited
resources, I'm sure not every government makes trustable copies of the
databases available) but just getting some of the bigger ones would be
progress.

Rich, K6RFM