[Dx4win] Help Figuring Out DXCC Submission

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Here's what I did for my last submission.  If you care about maximizing 
your dollar value, then you might do it differently:

1.  Do the LoTW submission first.  You'll need to take notes as to which 
confirmations were actually submitted, and what credits will be given 
(you'll see why later).  Each credit will cost you $0.15

2.  In DX4WIN, set the QSO preference to "Card in Hand".

3.  In DX4WIN, do a DXCC Submission (Reports -> DXCC -> Submission).
     Save the output to a .CSV file.

4.  There will be some overlap between what you submitted via LoTW and 
what DX4WIN submitted.  Open the .CSV file in a spreadsheet program like 
Excel, and delete the duplicate lines.  For example, I have both QSLs 
and LoTW confirmations for VP6DX.  Since I chose to submit those credits 
via LoTW, I deleted them from the DX4WIn submission spreadsheet.

5.  Pull together the paper QSLs that DX4WIN listed and mail them in.

That's kinda the easy part.  The not so easy part is to set the 
appropriate DXCC Mixed/Band/Mode award flags for each QSO that was 
submitted via LoTW.  It's assumed that you have already imported the 
LoTW report file into your log in order to set those QSOs as "upload 
confirmed".  The reason this is not so easy is that there could be MANY 
such QSOs.  In my case it was only about 20 or so.  The ARRL does not 
yet have a method to send this information to you electronically.

Now when your submission comes back, this is when you use my program to 
make sure that ARRL credited all the QSOs you think they should have. 
You can do this either before or after your change your DX4WIN 
"Submitted" flags to "Checked".  Before doing the DXCC listing, however, 
you should set your QSO preferences to "Card or Upload" so that all the 
submitted QSOs (both paper and electronic) will be included in the 
DX4WIN listing file.

There is another method, but I have not tried it.

- in DX4WIN, set your QSO preference to "Card or Upload".

- do the DXCC submission

- the DX4WIN submission report will contain a mixture of both paper and 
electronic confirmations.  How you tell which are which is left as an 
exercise for the reader (in other words, DX4WIN won't help you here, 
it's a manual process).

- once you have identified the LoTW (not paper) credits that DX4WIN 
wants to submit, there is some method in LoTW for "cherry picking" the 
submitted QSOs for credit.  This has been explained on the LoTW 
@yahoogroups.com reflector, but it's not easy.  Again, you'll have to do 
one QSO at a time.

Both methods have their pluses and minuses.  I'm only familiar with the 
former, because I've done it.

I hope this makes things a little more clear.

73 - Jim AD1C

On 1/5/2009 11:16 PM, Eric Rosenberg wrote:

> After waiting far too long, I'm finally getting around to submitting a
> combination of cards and LoTW for DXCC awards.
>
> I downloaded and ran AD1C's comparison software, but am still confused.
>
> What's not clear is the difference between LoTW and DX4Win with regard
> to what I submit.
>
> How do figure out which of my actual cards I need to submit? So far, the
> DX4Win submission list is often wrong when comparing to LoTW in that it
> (DX4win) will say CFM (via cards) when in fact it was via LoTW.
>
> Is there a better way to determine which cards to actually submit than
> my manually comparing the LoTW matrix with the DX4Win submission list?
>
> Thanks&  73,
>
> Eric W3DQ
> Washington, DC


-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us