[Dxbase] LOTW - DXB difference

[Gary AL9A]

Ok Dave, I'm curious.  What was the flaw and how did you catch/fix it?

73,
Gary AL9A

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Sent: December 06, 2009 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] LOTW - DXB difference


> well its like anything else .. It can be broke then i can break it :)... 
> It took me a while but I found the flaw and ive just ignored it
> Dave N8DC
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "The Romagni's" <eromagni at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Gary AL9A" <al9a at mtaonline.net>
> Cc: "DXbase Reflector" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2009 5:40:25 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] LOTW - DXB difference
>
> Interesting, never occurred to me to this, my results are dxbase = 1167,
> LOTW = 1325... I do a weekly download from lotw to ensure my totals are
> close to = to what is on the lotw db.... hmmm
>
> Steve
> W4DTA
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Gary AL9A <al9a at mtaonline.net> wrote:
>
>> I've never really paid any attention to the confirmed count totals 
>> between
>> LOTW and DXB until today. After uploading the 160M CW contacts from this
>> weekend LOTW says I have 12,101 QSL records. I downloaded the latest LOTW
>> report file and imported it into DXB. The I went to the Wizard in DXB and
>> in the QSO Filters area checked Confirm = LOTW and nothing else. I did a
>> test run and the Wizard says I have 11,068 confirms from LOTW. That's a
>> difference of 1,033 records between the two! Any ideas as to the size of
>> the discrepancy and where I should start in identifying and correcting 
>> the
>> errors?
>>
>> 73,
>> Gary AL9A
>>
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