[Dx4win] DXCC Submissions and LoTW

[Rick Murphy]

Last night I found that I had a big problem with my log - I printed out a
submission report and started pulling cards and couldn't find cards for most
of the confirmations on the list. This seemed pretty odd until I noticed
that all of these were marked by DX4WIN as confirmed by LoTW, however when I
looked at the site there was no QSL.

What apparently happened is that I downloaded a chunk of my log, used
LoTW/Import for LOTW to import those and DX4WIN didn't check if the contacts
were confirmed, setting the LoTW "Cnfm" flag for all QSOs.

I was able to recover from this by clearing all of the LoTW confirm flags
(create a selection with Cnfm:Y in the LoTW column then "LoTW/Clear LoTW
confirmed" which cleared all of them. Downloaded QSLs (not QSOs!) from LoTW
from all of my calls and re-imported, now it looks correct.
I just wanted to warn anyone to be careful what you load into DX4WIN.

Another issue is that the submission report includes all confirmations,
paper plus LoTW. This means that I can't just use it as is (i.e. hand it to
a field checker with my stack of cards) because the LoTW QSLs will need to
be deleted.
Is there a way that I can create a card-in-hand only submission report?
73,
    -Rick
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Rick Murphy, CISSP-ISSAP, K1MU/4, Annandale VA USA