hI, There appears to be a serious misconception of the way that ARRL intended Logbook of the World to be used. This misconception is enhanced by the availability of the buttons in DX4WIN enabling the user to select a particular contracts for confirmation.
The concept of LoTW is that the complete logs of stations are stored in the database. This then permits any amateur to have his log checked to for confirmations and these confirmations made available for him to use in ARRL award, and in the future, other awards. The one-sided approach of only submitting the contact that the user of DX4WIN requires will defeat the whole object of the ARRL program. In my case, I was very pleasantly surprised to find over a dozen rare DX Confirmations from years ago; confirmations that I had directly QSLed with green stamps or via a manager without receiving a card in return. Also, on 6 metres, I found a number of squares I did not know I had worked and as a result of information from LOTW, my total towards a 5BWAS has increased by 13 states. LoTW keeps a record of the submissions that you have made to the wed site. As time goes by and the more contracts are added to your log, you only need to submit the new contracts. This is done easily in DX4WIN (Version 6.02) by using Filter and entering start Date of the next submission to LoTW followed by ' enter.' The above action filters every contact from that date to the end of the log. Now click Window/Logbook. What now appears in the window is this selection from your chosen start date. To save this selection to an ADIF file for submission to LoTW, go to the DX4WIN startup window probably in the top left corner of your screen and click File then Export. This opens up the Import/Export Filters Window. The cursor will be in the ADIF exchange format selection. This is what you want, don't move it. In this same Import/Export Filters window, click File/Export This opens the familiar Save directory. The first time you do this, it is worth deciding where you are going to store your LoTW Uploads and, possibly creating another folder for LoTW Downloads. The files can be saved in the DX4WIN Save directory but my Save directory gets congested so I separate them. To create the ADIF file ready for signing by LoTW TQSL and submitting to LoTW, the file name must be YOUR CALLSIGN.ADI. Incidentally, the Report of your confirmations that you download from LoTW is in .HTML format. To convert to ADIF, open the file in a Text only Word Processor, e.g. Wordpad and then save it as a .TXT file then rename it to an .ADI file. To see what goodies you collected, create a new logbook and import the ADIF file into it. You can then examine the results using Report/DXCC/Listing/OK and comparing it with one from your complete logbook. I recommend printing the charts and comparing printouts. I get lost on the screen. Good Dxing and 73 Roger, G3KWK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/dx4win/attachments/20040513/5c6d4e7b/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 13 07:10:03 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars SM4WGB) Date: Thu May 13 07:11:33 2004 Subject: [Dx4win] LoTW from DX4WIN(6.02) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Roger Thanks for a very nice description. Easy to follow. I think Paul or Jim/AD1C should put this up on either web page and include in the manual. I installed 6.03 and I am very satified with it so far. But of course I do not use all parts of the program. 73s de Lars SM4WGB and SM4W On 2004-05-13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hI, > >There appears to be a serious misconception of the way that ARRL intended >Logbook of the World to be used. This misconception is enhanced by the >availability of the buttons in DX4WIN enabling the user to select a particular >contracts >for confirmation. > >The concept of LoTW is that the complete logs of stations are stored in the >database. This then permits any amateur to have his log checked to for >confirmations and these confirmations made available for him to use in ARRL >award, and >in the future, other awards. The one-sided approach of only submitting the >contact that the user of DX4WIN requires will defeat the whole object of the >ARRL program. > >In my case, I was very pleasantly surprised to find over a dozen rare DX >Confirmations from years ago; confirmations that I had directly QSLed with >green >stamps or via a manager without receiving a card in return. Also, on 6 >metres, >I found a number of squares I did not know I had worked and as a result of >information from LOTW, my total towards a 5BWAS has increased by 13 states. > >LoTW keeps a record of the submissions that you have made to the wed site. As >time goes by and the more contracts are added to your log, you only need to >submit the new contracts. This is done easily in DX4WIN (Version 6.02) by >using >Filter and entering start Date of the next submission to LoTW followed by ' >enter.' > >The above action filters every contact from that date to the end of the log. > > >Now click Window/Logbook. What now appears in the window is this selection >from your chosen start date. > >To save this selection to an ADIF file for submission to LoTW, go to the >DX4WIN startup window probably in the top left corner of your screen and click >File then Export. > >This opens up the Import/Export Filters Window. The cursor will be in the >ADIF exchange format selection. This is what you want, don't move it. > >In this same Import/Export Filters window, click File/Export > >This opens the familiar Save directory. > >The first time you do this, it is worth deciding where you are going to store >your LoTW Uploads and, possibly creating another folder for LoTW Downloads. >The files can be saved in the DX4WIN Save directory but my Save directory >gets congested so I separate them. > >To create the ADIF file ready for signing by LoTW TQSL and submitting to >LoTW, the file name must be YOUR CALLSIGN.ADI. > >Incidentally, the Report of your confirmations that you download from LoTW is >in .HTML format. To convert to ADIF, open the file in a Text only Word >Processor, e.g. Wordpad and then save it as a .TXT file then rename it to an >.ADI >file. > >To see what goodies you collected, create a new logbook and import the ADIF >file into it. You can then examine the results using Report/DXCC/Listing/OK >and comparing it with one from your complete logbook. I recommend printing >the >charts and comparing printouts. I get lost on the screen. > >Good Dxing and 73 > >Roger, G3KWK > >_______________________________________________ >Dx4win mailing list >Dx4win@mailman.qth.net >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > >
