At 05:07 PM 8/2/2017, G Widin wrote:
In the Discussion of motion "Frenaye #2" from the July Board meeting, it says:

See email below sent to LoTW chairman K0GW in January, and again in June, but not forwarded to nor reviewed by the LoTW Committee.

This statement is incorrect.  As the chronology below indicates, I replied immediately to K1KI both in January and June.  In addition, his January e-mail was forwarded to the committee immediately in January and resulted in extended discussion, several messages of which we also forwarded to K1KI.

Per Minute 34, we will ensure that the Logbook Study Committee visits the topic of callsign matching again, and generates useful guidance to users. 

However, it is not true, as Frenaye claims, that I and the LSC did not consider or respond to his e-mails.  I have asked Mr. Frenaye to clarify this to the Board, but since he apparently will not do so, I must correct the false accusation in his motion.


Thanks for the corrections Greg.   I'm looking forward to working with the LoTW committee and the PSC on this.    I offered the motion because I felt that the LoTW response did not sufficiently address the concerns expressed in my memo from January.   I was expecting more and the e-mails you forwarded to me then seemed like preliminary responses.  Then there was nothing reported after the LoTW meeting in January so I assumed it was still under study.

As I noted at the Board meeting, the question of confirmations is not just how LoTW handles them, it is why we handle confirmations differently in different programs.   Confirmations should be driven by how we want to set the rules (that is a program decision[Radiosport Dept, and PSC], not an IT decision) and be clearly communicated to members.  The IT "stuff" is easy when the specifications are defined... :-) 

Thanks for keeping an open mind.

     -- Tom

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e-mail chronology.  Dates are 2017.

Jan 14 9:15 PM--Frenaye to Widin--Message attached to Frenaye #2
Jan 15 7:14 AM--Widin to Frenaye, CC: Logbook Study Committee--Reply
Jan 15 2:14 PM--Bernstein to Widin and Frenaye, CC: Logbook Study Committee--Discussion
Jan 16 8:54 AM--Widin to Frenaye--Copy of response from Keane

Jun 30 11:54 AM--Frenaye to Widin--Never heard back in January
Jun 30 2:23 PM--Widin to Frenaye--Reply and summary of January conclusions

Jul 26 11:34 AM--Widin to Frenaye--Responses did occur in January
[other January copies re-sent to Frenaye]
Jul 29 4:15 PM--Frenaye to Widin--Help doc'n on LoTW too brief
Jul 29 5:52 PM--Widin to Frenaye--Please correct no-response allegation in Frenaye #2.

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