[Dx4win] VUCC & LOTW

[Mike Rhodes]

Thanks Jim. It sounds like we are on pretty much the same path at the 
moment and QSL on the 'LOTW Award' vs confirmations.

I had the same thought (naturally after I sent my query) as to doing the 
VUCC submission with filters so hopefully that will take some of the 
pain away. Will also take a look at K1MU's utility if I can find it.

Thanks again and 73 de
Mike / W8DN
DX4Win Since Version 0.97


On 1/26/2017 4:05 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Mike Rhodes W8DN wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to use the LOTW award to mark these Qs as 'C'onfirmed for
>> VUCC in DX4Win?
> No direct way.  FYI, there is no such thing as "LoTW Award".  I think
> you are thinking of importing *confirmations* from LoTW into DX4WIN.
>
> Here's the long answer...
>
> I have done two VUCC submissions.  The first was all (only)
> electronic, through the LoTW web site.  You can go to your DX4WIN
> Award preferences for VUCC and change the confirmation method to
> "LoTW" only.  Then do a VUCC submission through the DX4WIN Reports
> menu.  It will pull only VUCC confirmations that have previously been
> confirmed via LoTW.  But this list probably won't match up exactly
> with the list of QSOs that the VUCC system generated, so you'll have
> to touch it up.
>
> Then about 6 months later, I did another submission with both LoTW and
> paper QSL confirmations allowed.  This was to get all my QSLs together
> for grids for which I did not have a LoTW confirmation.  There were a
> few LoTW confirmations included, but I eliminated those from the
> submission.  Now I'm at 250 grids credited on 6 meters, with a handful
> of LoTW confirmations I have not yet submitted.
>
> Unlike DXCC, there is no way to to download an ADIF file of all your
> LoTW credits.  I was hoping to use this to make sure my DX4WIN award
> flags were correct.  I was going to add it to this program:
>
>      http://dx4win.ad1c.us/lotw/
>
> If you click on "Version History" you'll see where I was headed.  I
> stupidly wrote all the code, then only when I tried to use it, found
> out it does not work.  At the time I had only LoTW credits, so I
> *thought* it was working.  Until I submitted those QSLs.  You *can*
> download all your (say) 6 meter QSOs from LoTW (K1MU wrote a utility
> to help with this), and there will be VUCC award credits in that file,
> but *only* for QSOs confirmed through LoTW.  Any grids you have
> confirmed only by paper QSL will *not* be in that file.  Well, the
> QSOs will be in that file, but there is not an ADIF field showing you
> having received credit for them.
>
> I have a possible work-around, but it's not pretty, and relies only on
> "scraping" the list of grids confirmed that you can get on the award
> page.  I just have not had time to work on it yet.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>