[Dxbase] LoTW DXCC Awards recording procedure.

[FireBrick]

Your correct as far as I've determined.
I've been doing it manually
and this is one of the uses for the Special 1 & 2 fields that I use.

When I see a LoTW qsl for an as yet unconfirmed/submitted band mode, I manually enter LOTW 
into the special 1 field.

After a submission I can do a Search/find on that field and manually mark the proper qsl 
that was credited...

So far, I've seen that LoTW 'seems' to take the first instance of a qsl band/mode. 
Subsequent qsls for the same band mode do not get credit.
So maybe looking for the earliest day may be a key.
But here comes another problem.
People who resubmit their log which results in previous qsls being overwritten.
Not that LoTW qsl could have a new date. So that's not a sure thing either.

I print out a label/card for each NEW LoTW band/mode qsl I receive.
Sort of a placeholder card.
It has the qso info for the submitted/credited qsl and I can quickly check if there is a 
change or whatever.
As I'm chasing both the challenge and dream total, it's important for me to keep an 
up-to-date listing.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Stordahl" <ron.stordahl at digikey.com>
To: "DXBase" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:33 PM
Subject: [Dxbase] LoTW DXCC Awards recording procedure.


> Before I go ahead with an awards submission via LoTW I want to be sure of how I will 
> record it in DXB2005 when completed .
>
> It looks to me like I will have to manually set the DXCC flag in the Awards column in my 
> log to indicate that the associated LoTW 'QSL' as been used toward DXCC.  I cannot let 
> DXB2005 do this automatically because experimentally I find that DXB2005 will select a 
> different card (same country/band/mode but a different Q) from time to time than LoTW 
> would do, although most of the selections will be the same.
>
> The LoTW award application procedure does produce all the information needed to identify 
> the exact Q's it has selected, but this information must be manually delt with at this 
> point.
>
> Anyone have another take on this?
>
> Ron, N5IN
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