[Dx4win] DX4WIN 6.03

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

--- Lou <n2tu at optonline.net> wrote:
 
> The help menu is useless for LOTW questions. There has been so much
> discussion, though fragmented, on the reflector on how to do LOTW upload and
> downloads that I am snowed!....

Lou, you are not alone.  It seems everyone has a different idea as to how they
want this to work.

> 1. I have uploaded all my QSO's to LOTW, pre 6.03....so there is no need to
> upload them again...right....? But don't I need to dummy up DX4WIN 6.03 to
> show this has been accomplished.

My understanding during beta testing was that if you didn't export your QSOs
out of DX4WIN through the Labels menu, then the Upload Conf flags could never
be set.  That may no longer be the case.

In my situation, I would like to set the upload date (accurately) on my QSOs
that have already been exported to LoTW, but there is currently no way to do
that - you can only get today's date.  What's missing is some sort of "Multiple
QSO Operations -> Set Upload Date" function.

> 2. Then when I download LOTW into DX4WIN, does it only overwite confirmed
> status on the LOTW entries?

Yes, when you import an ADIF log, the pull-down menu has an option to only
update the "Upload Conf" flags in the log for those imported QSOs, it wil not
change the log data itself.


The other wrinkle is once you have exported QSOs, how do you export the next
batch?  In my log, when I did another "set upload flags" then "export"
operation, it exported the entire log all over again!  Paul explained that you
must use an F8 filter to search for "Upload Date = 01/01/1901" which will
select only those entries where the upload date is empty.  Then using the
filter, you can set the Upload flags and export to LoTW, and you'll only get
the new entries.

Hope this helps.  I really wish this was more straightforward.

73 - Jim AD1C


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