[ADXA] VUCC and LOTW issue discovered

[Rory Bowers]

Rick Hall, K5GZR came up with a perfect answer in the FFMA forum.  The part
of the puzzle I (we?) are missing is a "one time request to ARRL staff to
link our VUCC and LOTW accounts".  I thought I had done this years ago but
maybe not.  I am in hot pursuit!!
73,
Rory, K5CKS

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 1:30 PM WB5JJJ <wb5jjj at gmail.com> wrote:

> I noticed this some time back.  I, too, was perplexed and contacted ARRL
> for an explanation.
>
> Their answer was something like, since there was no corresponding LoTW
> upload from the QSL Card station, LoTW could not show confirmation.  I had
> to manually enter "verified" in my log to clear this up.  After doing that,
> it now shows correctly in GridTracker.
>
> Their explanation sorta makes sense, but how difficult would it be to not
> only enter YOUR information from the card and THEIRS as well at the same
> time?  That would solve the problem as they are in reality verifying the
> contact, but only "half a$$" at best.
>
> Am I missing something here?
> 73's
> George - WB5JJJ
> HoIP - 100105
> HH - 4969
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:39 AM Rory Bowers <k6cks01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all of my ADXA friends, I am currently living here in Little Rock
>> at UAMS.  So I have found a dozen or so things to do to stay occupied and I
>> have found one to be most perplexing. This may affect some of you that
>> spend a lot of time on 6M and up.
>> I recently sent in a batch of QSL cards to VUCC to be checked and added
>> to my account.  That was fine and the grids worked now show up in my VUCC
>> account.  The downfall is that they do NOT show up as "confirmed" in LOTW.
>> This has created a situation where in GridTracker can't find the confirmed
>> QSO and still shows the grid as "unconfirmed".  Why doesn't a VUCC
>> confirmed QSO appear as confirmed in LOTW??  This seems so wrong!
>> 73,
>> Rory, K5CKS
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