[Dx4win] VUCC & LOTW

[Mike Rhodes]

This just keeps getting stranger. Just used filters for 6m, LOTW 
confirmed, VUCC 'S" and only came up with 80 Qs. However, LOTW shows 112 
and I just 'sync'd' DX4Win and LOTW Expected at least the count to 
match, even if different Qs were selected!. I may have to drink tonight !!

Mike / W8DN

On 1/26/2017 5:03 PM, Mike Rhodes wrote:
> ...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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