[ADXA] VUCC and LOTW issue discovered

[WB5JJJ]

First off, glad to see you chasing all the craziness from your deluxe
accommodations in the sky.

Let us all know what steps (who you talked to, emailed) to make this
happen.  Seems to me like it should be an automatic thing from the get-go.
But then, I'm not the smartest rock in the quarry either.

73's
George - WB5JJJ
HoIP - 100105
HH - 4969



On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 1:59 PM Rory Bowers <k6cks01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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