A joint update from ARRL and CQ...
Newington, CT and Hicksville, NY – January 31, 2018 – Beta testing for bringing CQ
magazine's Worked All Zones (WAZ) award program into ARRL’s Logbook of the
World (LoTW) system has
been underway since mid-December and is continuing to move forward, according
to officials from CQ Magazine and ARRL, the national association for Amateur
Radio.
Some
problems in the implementation were discovered by testers and have since been
corrected; the documentation has also been improved by feedback from the
testers. In parallel, the LoTW server has been executing a background task that
creates and populates a WAZ account for each LoTW user.
Beta
testing will continue until this background task completes. When all WAZ
accounts have populated, LoTW-WAZ will be made available to everyone.
The goal is for amateur radio operators to be able to
directly submit LoTW confirmations for WAZ credit. Standard LoTW credit fees and separate CQ
award fees will apply. Logbook of the World is ARRL's electronic confirmation
system for amateur radio contacts. It provides a confirmation when both
stations in a contact submit their logs to the system and a match between the
logs is confirmed. LoTW has supported the CQ WPX Award program since 2012.
CQ Communications, Inc. (www.cqcomm.com) is publisher of CQ
Amateur Radio magazine and is the world's largest independent publisher of
amateur radio magazines, books and videos. Worked All Zones is the
second-oldest active award program in amateur radio, behind only the
International Amateur Radio Union's Worked All Continents award.
ARRL (www.arrl.org), a noncommercial organization of radio amateurs, has a proud history of
achievement as the standard-bearer in amateur affairs. ARRL’s underpinnings as
Amateur Radio’s witness, partner and forum are defined by five pillars: Public
Service, Advocacy, Education, Technology, and Membership.
