[Dx4win] Another LOTW issue

Kelly Johnson n6kj.kelly at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 02:37:36 EST 2007


I just ran into another problem when importing an LOTW report into DX4WIN.

I have been keeping 2 separate logs: one for my day-to-day operations
and another for multi-op contests in which my call is used.  I want my
awards tracking to only be done with my day-to-day log.  I want to
keep things separated!

Now, in comes LOTW.  I uploaded both logs using a different station
location for each since my multi-op contest log is from a different
county.   Now, when I download my LOTW QSL report, QSLs from both sets
of logs are in the report.  I mistakenly imported this report into my
day-to-day log and wound up with a bunch of QSLs from a multi-op
contest which I didn't want in there.  I was able to use the filter to
find them all and delete them, but ... what a pain.

Isn't there a simple way of either:
1) Downloading only QSLs corresponding to a particular station
location from LOTW
OR
2) Filtering out QSLs from a particular station before importing the
report into DX4WIN

Another thing I realize is that the awards tracking done by LOTW
itself uses both sets of information.  This isn't right.  This makes
awards tracking on LOTW worthless for those of us that have used our
call for a multi-op contest effort.

LOTW isn't turning out to be quite as useful as I had thought.


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