[Dxbase] Joe wa6axe - eQSL lessons learned - update to myprevious

[Gary AL9A]

I recently got an email from an eqsl user wanting to know why I had rejected 
her eqsl as not being in my log when I had already confirmed her via LOTW 
and sent her a QSL card.  That puzzled me too until I checked the date and 
time on her eqsl against my log.  There she was, but with a different call! 
A quick check of the FCC license data showed that the call she was seeking 
to confirm via eqsl wasn't issued until one week after our QSO!  Apparently 
the incompatibility of the  issue date of her new license and the date of 
the QSO under the old license was lost on her!

I also get a lot of rejected eqsl's in my Inbox due to people keeping their 
logs in local time rather than UTC time.  This also frequently causes lots 
of date errors - off by one day due to the UTC date changing at 0000 UTC 
while their local date doesn't change until midnight local time.  Of course, 
I should be able to figure out their local time zone, DST or standard time, 
convert that into AK time and then convert that info to UTC to see if it 
matches my log.  Sure, I have nothing else to do!

73,
Gary AL9A



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wes N7WS" <n7ws at k6mhe.com>
To: <Dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: September 07, 2009 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Joe wa6axe - eQSL lessons learned - update to 
myprevious


>I tried that mess as a courtesy to others but I got tired of getting
> emails asking me to correct my log, so I closed my account.
>
> n8dc-8 at comcast.net wrote:
>> I do use the site but i only check for cards then verify them in DxBase 
>> and if all is well I then send a qsl back. Ive never tried to input my 
>> log file to the site. Since the qso's there arent any good for ARRL I 
>> dont feel the need to spent a lot of time there.. Thanks for the great 
>> info though..
>> Dave N8DC
>>
>>
>>
>
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