Saw a post on one of my FB groups yesterday about NPOTA and whether folks would be participating.
Followed by six comments (before I gave up in disgust and hid the post) ragging on the LOTW requirement as being a secret ARRL plot to drive membership, and/or install crap software on one’s machine, and/or that LOTW would just lose your QSOs at some point down the line…
I can only say that if you can’t install the LOTW software on your machine, you shouldn’t be installing any software on your machine. If you act like a “real ham” and don’t read the manual first, yeah, you’re probably going to have issues. On the other hand, if you have a bit of intelligence and are moved to read the manual first, you probably won’t have any trouble at all.
One guy said he’d rather log his stuff to QRZ. OK…did you know that QRZ has a really easy interface to LOTW? All you have to do is feed it your certificate and login credentials. In fact, I don’t even use ARRL’s TQSL software anymore…I upload to QRZ and from there to LOTW.
We used to say that there was nothing wrong with Freemasonry that a few Masonic funerals couldn’t cure. I’m really thinking it’s the same way in amateur radio — a few more SKs in certain places wouldn’t hurt a thing.