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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

75 Million QSO's and growing


ARRL's Logbook of the World is the largest repository of amateur radio log records, submitted for a worldwide amateur radio audience. When both radio contacts participate in a one-on-one contact (QSO), and submit their records to Logbook of the World, the result is a cardless verification, used for ARRL credit.
The League's QSL-cardless awards and contact credit system has far exceeded their original predictions in 2003. In the first month alone, more than 14 million QSO's were added to the database. Today, LoTW has grown to over 75 million, and is well on it's way to being adopted by the worldwide community of DXers.
LoTW is open to all amateur radio operators, and applying for a digital certificate is the first step toward taking advantage of the system. The digital certificates authenticates the user's identity. For more information about Logbook of the World, please refer to: www.arrl.org/lotw/
(Source: Gayle Van Horn/QSL Report)