[Dx4win] VUCC & LOTW

Thu Jan 26 19:47:46 EST 2017

Ok, I don't have an answer but things are getting closer now. Instead of 
filtering on VUCC Submission and LOTW Confirmed, I did as Jim suggested 
and modified the VUCC awards selection so it chose only LOTW confirmed 
Qs. Now, instead of 80 Qs, I show 113 !! Guess one over is better than 
32 under !! Clueless as to what is going on but I guess it is the end 
result that counts ! Hopefully this discussion will save someone else 
some grief.

Mike / W8DN

On 1/26/2017 5:11 PM, Mike Rhodes wrote:
> 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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