[Dx4win] DXCC submission via LoTW and not DX4WIN

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Dennis Petrich
<radioart at frontiernet.net> wrote:

> I just linked all my contacts in LoTW to get DXCC award.  I don't have any
> of my QSL cards checked at ARRL yet but I had more than enough confirmations
> to get DXCC Mixed and Phone.  So I went ahead and paid my fee's and pushed
> the button....  That was Friday....

Congratulations, Dennis.

> Now this morning I see in DX4WIN the Reports > DXCC and Award flags and
> Award buttons.  Did I make a booboo by doing it from LoTW instead of from
> DX4WIN??

No, there is no other way to submit LoTW credits, but paper QSLs are
easier to track in DX4WIN using the award submission process (see
below).

> Or can I download the ARRL results back to DX4WIN to synch the two up??

There is no such facility at LoTW, nor are there ADIF fields defined
for such a transfer.

You should read this application note:

    http://dx4win.ad1c.us/appnotes/dxcc.html

You have some work to do to get your awarded DXCC credits in-sync
between DX4WIN and LoTW, but I wrote a program to help you do this
(the text links to it).  It will be easier the next time when you
submit fewer credits, but it will still have to be done manually.

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