[Dx4win] LOTW

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:08 PM Scott Millick wrote:

> when I update an ADIF file to my LOTW account from DX4WIN I convert
> it to ADIF and I get the credits for DXCC with it .  question is how
> do I get credit on my  DX4WIN  log file from the LOTW download  to
> give me credit to my copy of the file from the import/export feature on DX4WIN

Scott, you may want to read these application notes:

    https://ad1c.us/dx4win/appnotes/dxcc.html
    https://ad1c.us/dx4win/appnotes/lotw.html

There are a couple of points here:

1.  You don't get the DXCC credits automatically from LoTW.  You only
get confirmations.  You must still make a DXCC application through
LoTW to have those credits applied to your DXCC Award(s)

2.  You can think of LoTW confirmations like QSL cards that need to be
submitted for DXCC credit.  You perform a DXCC Submission through
DX4WIN, and this will set the Submitted flags for those QSOs.  When
you receive the DXCC credits from ARRL, you can change the Submitted
flags to Checked through DX4WIN's Reports menu.

Now it's likely that the confirmations submitted through LoTW may not
exactly match the ones that DX4WIN picked to submit, especially in the
case where you have multiple confirmations for the same DXCC entity.
You can resolve this any way you want, but it may involve manually
changing award flags in DX4WIN to make everything match up.  Again,
read the DXCC application note above.

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, https://ad1c.us