[Dx4win] VUCC & LOTW

[Mike Rhodes]

...just found out (which I vaguely remember from previous attempts at 
something) that the Report  "Submission" function looks at the entire 
log rather than just what is filtered (why?). Guess I will have to do 
another filter based on the VUCC Submission and LOTW Confirmed fields to 
get a usable check log. Will see how that goes shortly.

Mike / W8DN

On 1/26/2017 4:26 PM, Mike Rhodes wrote:
> 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
>>
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