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To add to Jim's answer, one of the goals of Logbook of the World is to be a secure system (reference). This presumably was necessary because contacts with some DXCC entities or other stations are ...

LOTW is a service provide by the American Radio Relay League or ARRL. It started in 2003. it allows a secure upload of your ham radio contacts to an online database. By matching your records with ...

The WAC award is an award sponsored by the IARU and administered through IARU's member societies. If you are content with receiving the award in .pdf form to print yourself, the German DARC Community ...

Any day after the day your license was issued will work fine. What it's really trying to tell you is that your certificate can't be used to sign any QSO made before its start date.

As the Ham Radio Deluxe User Guide says: "First of all, it's worth pointing out the following - despite its name, Logbook of the World (LOTW) is not a logging platform. It was never designed to ...

Yes there is! You have two options, you can either mail your cards to the ARRL for verification, or you could meet up with a QSL Award Manager. Each section has one or more QSL Award Managers who do ...

As @henryflower noted in his answer, Worked All Continents (WAC) is an award sponsored by the IARU, and applications do not necessarily need to go through the ARRL. The basic idea seems to be that ...