a mixed LOTW/online-paper application
I'm pretty sure there isn't such a thing as a "mixed LOTW/online-paper application". I've recently gone thru the process and currently there are two separate applications:
- Paper QSL application, and
- LOTW application
In my case, I first did the paper QSL application by uploading to the ARRL web site an ADIF file containing a list of my paper QSL cards I was submitting. The website then generated a PDF file which I printed and brought, along with my QSL cards, to my local card checker. He checked them and snail-mailed the signed application to ARRL
In less then two weeks, the QSL cards, or should I say the QSOs, all showed up in my LOTW account.
When my paper QSLs were in my LOTW account, I then applied for all the remaining LOTW credits. I did that very late at night and was very surprised the LOTW application was approved already the following morning.
The process of both, the paper QSL application and also the LOTW application, was for me now much faster that it was last year.
Marvin VE3VEE