Newington, CT and Hicksville, NY – April 2, 2018 – Officials
from CQ magazine and ARRL, The
national association for Amateur Radio®, are excited to announce the launch of
support for CQ magazine’s Worked All Zones (WAZ) award program on ARRL’s
Logbook of the World (LoTW) system, effective Monday, April 2, at 10:00 a.m.
EDT (14:00 UTC).
The goal of the project was to create the proper technical
support system to enable amateur radio operators to submit LoTW confirmations
for WAZ credit and that has been accomplished, say CQ and ARRL officials.
“We
are very pleased that participants in CQ's WAZ award program will now be able
to use their LoTW confirmations for award credit,” said CQ Editor Rich Moseson,
W2VU. “CQ WPX Award participants have found it very helpful and we are sure it
will be equally helpful for those pursuing WAZ and its many variations.”
ARRL
First Vice President Greg Widin, K0GW, concurred. “Users of LoTW have been telling us for some
time that they would like to use QSLs from LoTW to apply for the WAZ
award. They will now be able to select
confirmations to be used for WAZ credit.”
Beta
testing for bringing CQ magazine's WAZ award program into ARRL’s LoTW
system had been
underway since mid-December. Any problems in the implementation discovered by
testers were corrected by the technical support team. Also, the documentation
has been improved by feedback from the testers. At the same time, each LoTW
user was given an additional WAZ account.
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 The national
association for Amateur Radio®, (www.arrl.org), represents the interests of Amateur (or “ham”) Radio operators
across the country. Founded in 1914 by Hiram Percy Maxim as The American Radio
Relay League, ARRL has a proud history of achievement as the standard-bearer in
amateur affairs. Now in its second century, the organization remains focused on
“advancing the art, science, and enjoyment of Amateur Radio.”
