[Dx4win] LOTWREPORT - NOT FOUND

[Randy Farmer]

I see this all the time and it's mostly because of a mismatch in 
something like a county between what's in your log and what's in the 
LoTW confirmation record. I get a lot of these after I do a state QSO 
party and work some mobile/portable stations not in their home county. 
When they upload to LoTW they just use their regular certificate that 
populates their home county. DX4WIN sees this as a mismatch and doesn't 
set the LoTW confirm flag for the QSO. It's up to you to correct the log 
or just manually set the LoTW Cnfm flag.

What makes things confusing is that the NOTFOUND file actually contains 
all the QSL data from a particular download, not just the ones with 
mismatches. With the  NOTFOUND file open (on the logging window menu bar 
select LoTW, then select Review QSOs not found), look for the X in the 
leftmost column. For each of these double click the QSL line and it will 
bring up a list of possible matches in the log, with the fields that are 
different highlighted in red. When you find the one that corresponds to 
the QSL, double click on it and it will open it in the logging window 
for correction.

You will also probably encounter some QSLs with less critical mismatches 
from the LoTW report file import. These differences will show up with 
"IMPORT: xxx" appended to the QSO in the log window's "Notes for this 
QSO" field. To see all of these, do a search for "IMPORT" and look 
through the resulting records. DX4WIN will do this for fairly trivial 
errors such as a difference in the last two characters in a 6 character 
Grid designation. The biggest source of such errors is always zone 
mismatches. It's amazing how many people have the wrong zone in their 
LoTW certificates, usually putting the IARU zone in instead of the CQ 
zone. You can correct the zone in each record if you wish, or just live 
with the log clutter. Just remember that some 4th call area states are 
in zone 4 instead of zone 5 and some 7th call area states are in zone 4 
instead of zone 3. I think DX4WIN gets the zone right if you have the 
state field filled in (thank, Jim).

73...
Randy, W8FN

On 12/14/2011 19:43, R.T.Liddy wrote:
> Fred,
>   
> My experience is that the ones with X's on the NOTFOUND Report
> are in LOTW but not matching up totally right in your Log. I click
> on them and change as necessary. Or, I merely ADD them to my
> Log in the Add Off-line mode if they aren't there.
>   
> Strangely, I always wonder how they are in LOTW and not in my
> Log in the first place. But, I assume the LOTW is correct since
> everything is always entered in a "secure" mode by both parties.
>   
> GL/73,   Bob K8BL