[Dx4win] Sub Mode Breaking LOTW Confirmations?

[Rick Murphy]

Al,

This is an interesting problem.
You have a Phone QSO with MODE=SSB, SUBMODE=USB.
DX4WIN probably puts this out as <MODE:3>SSB<SUBMODE:3>USB
That's correct. However, it won't survive a round trip through TQSL to
LoTW and back down.
TQSL will match this with the following entry:
       <adifmode adif-mode="SSB" adif-submode="USB" mode="SSB">USB</adifmode>

This goes up to LoTW as a SSB mode contact. The fact that this was
encoded as MODE/SUBMODE is lost, so the ADIF exported by LoTW doesn't
have the info to be able to use the mode/submode form on export.

LoTW can't just switch to MODE/SUBMODE as that will break anyone
expecting just USB or SSB.
I don't know if Paul is willing to do the work to find the match here
(i.e. SSB qso matches SSB/USB), but that's the only way to reconcile
this.

73,
    -Rick

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 3:55 AM Allan W Schlaugat <reflectors at n9isn.com> wrote:
>
> Just checking to see if this is operator error or a bug/issue. When I set
> the submode in DX4WIN 9.07 (for example, SSB with a submode of USB), I do
> not get matches when I download the LOTW .adi file with confirmations, even
> if everything else matches up (date, time, call, mode, frequency, etc). The
> .notfound file has these contacts marked with a X on the far left column.
> If the submode is set, it will not match. I tested this with SSB and USB
> and LSB and in every case if I delete the submode in DX4WIN, it will match
> the very same .adi I just downloaded from LOTW. I haven't tested it with
> MSFK and submode FT4 yet.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> 73   Al   N9ISN
>
>
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-- 
Rick Murphy, CISSP-ISSAP, K1MU/4, Annandale VA USA