[Dx4win] Help with hybrid DX4win/LoTW submisison

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Before doing your next endorsement, you first have to make you
existing DX4WIN DXCC award flags match the LoTW DXCC Award Credit
Matrix.  This is what the program I wrote helps you with.

First, make sure any/all Submitted flags are cleared.  Use Reports ->
Change Award Flags to do this.  You must select "Clear Submitted" and
do it for three awards - DXCC Mixed, DXCC Band and DXCC Mode.

Now using the records of what cards you submitted, and the list of
credits you were awarded, manually change the award flags for those
QSOs to "Checked".  LoTW won't tell you what cards you submitted, so I
hope you have accurate records of what cards you submitted, and what
credits you were given for them (I always Xerox (tm) everything,
including the cards).  You'll have to do this for all 157 cards.  It's
easier to do it this way, than to submit everything in DX4WIN and
"unsubmit" credits to get DX4WIN and LoTW to match.

NOTE: you don't have to identify the EXACT QSO you got credit for, but
you must pick a *confirmed* QSO that matches the credit you received.
For example, if it was for Spain, EA on 40 meters, any one confirmed
QSO with EA on 40 meters can be marked "Checked".

Then run the LoTW comparison program and make sure DX4WIN matches your
DXCC Award Credit Matrix.  Keep working on the step above until it
matches 100%.

At this point, SAVE YOUR LOG!!!!

Going forward, you can now do a Reports -> DXCC -> Submission and
DX4WIN will set the award flags for new DXCC credits to "Submitted"
automatically.  See my (or Kostas') earlier messages about submitting
the DXCC hybrid application.

When you get the award back, that's when you use Reports -> Change
Award Flags to change the Submitted flags to Checked.  Then you run
the LoTW comparison program again, and things should match up.  If
they don't, then ARRL gave you credit for something you didn't expect,
or didn't give you credit for something you expected (for example, I
mailed a card in late 2007 which was missed by the DXCC checking
process at ARRL, so I had to submit it again this year).

I hope this all makes sense.

73 - Jim AD1C

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Eric Rosenberg
<ericrosenberg.dc at gmail.com> wrote:

> >From the user perspective, this process is unnecessarily complicated
> (from the programmer's perspective, I'm sure it isn't)
>
> A couple of years ago, I submitted and was awarded 157 DX countries
> countries by cards.
>
> LoTW shows that award, which includes band/mode confirmations along
> with another 27 credited.
>
> DX4Win shows 233 worked and 225 confirmed, also including band/mode
> confirmations.
>
> What I need to know is what cards I submit.
>
> I ran AD1C's comparison program, but that didn't help much, as there
> is not enough detail.
>
> I then went through DX4win's submission list and that didn't seem to correlate.
>
> I'm not sure what to do now.
>
> Any help is appreciated.

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