[Dx4win] Help with hybrid DX4win/LoTW submisison

[Eric Rosenberg]

This is GREAT!

As I've done nothing since that initial card-based DXCC submission,
I'll start with this process and go forward.

I'll have to dig, but I'm not sure I have the list of that submission.
If I remember correctly, it was field checked.  Would the ARRL have
that record?

Eric

On 1/7/09, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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
>