[Dxbase] Hybrid DXCC application

[George Harlem W1EBI]

Peter, assuming you have LoTW credits at ARRL, just check the box to award 
all available LoTW QSL's for QSO's not confirmed by the cards in your 
submission.  Once they eventually credit the LoTW Q's, you can see exactly 
which contact was used by going onto the "Awards" page on the LoTW site and 
checking your own award matrix.  All awards are shown by callsign and are 
indicated as card or LoTW.  I don't know whether you can choose which LoTW 
QSO gets selected if there are multiples.

73, George W1EBI

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From: Peter Dougherty <w2irt at nac.net>
To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:42:45 -0400
Subject: [Dxbase] Hybrid DXCC application

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm getting ready to submit a pretty heftyDXCC application (one new 
> award, band endorsements on 10, 15, 20 and Phone) and there are a 
> couple of things I'm not real sure about.
> 
> I have only one entity (Aves) confirmed by LoTW that I don't have 
> hard-cards for already, but I *do* have about 464 confirmed QSOs in 
> the LoTW system.
> 
> What would you suggest my best strategy would be for making this 
> submission? I don't care whether I use the LoTW credits or hard 
> cards, frankly. Here's the question. Let's say I choose to submit a 
> hybrid application. How can I ensure that the QSOs that LoTW chooses 
> to use are the same ones that DX Base would include for a given 
> entity or mode? Let's say I have Slovakia confirmed on 40 by one 
> station on LoTW and by another in hard-card. In filling out the QSO 
> form with DX Base, how can I make sure that DX Base selects the same 
> QSO that LoTW would select? Or am I completely mis-understanding the 
> LoTW system?
> 
> Honestly, their awards selection mechanism is arcane in the extreme, 
> and I'm tempted to do it all hard-card and put on a note telling 
> them to fetch Aves Island from my LoTW records manually and add it 
> to my totals!
> 
> 73 de Peter (W2IRT)
> w2irt at nac.net
> 
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