Re: [Dx4win] More DX4Win vs LOTW Questions

[Rick Murphy]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Mike Rhodes  wrote:

>   First, thanks for bearing with me as I muddle my way thru this mess. As
> you can tell, I have not spent a lot of time with LOTW and the related
> DX4Win functions, even though I uploaded to LOTW several years ago (or at
> least I thought I did).
>   After running AD1C's comparison program, I found a large number of
> mismatches. Next, I downloaded the LOTW report and imported it into DX4Win,
> thinking that would fix things. Wrong again! I found a BUNCH of DX4Win
> entries that did not show up in LOTW, exactly the opposite of the problem I
> thought I had.
>   It appears that I have a number of Qs marked as uploaded to LOTW that
> are not actually showing up in LOTW. I do not know for a fact that only the
> one upload date is bad so I am thinking I should just upload the entire
> log, even though I am confident that at least parts of it have already been
> uploaded.
>   Is that a safe solution or am I just going to make things worse. As in,
> is LOTW smart enough to recognize and delete/ignore duplicate Qs?
>

Mike,
TQSL keeps track of uploads and will tell you if you try to re-upload the
same QSO, allowing you to upload only the new ones.

The LoTW site will also discard duplicate QSOs, so no problems there. Now,
if you've uploaded logs with a station location using the wrong callsign,
then those QSOs are on the LoTW server and can't be deleted.
They're called "zombies" since they're hopefully dead QSOs, but possibly
could generate a QSL if the station you worked also uploaded with the wrong
call worked.
Nothing you can do here, so not worth worrying about.

I would be careful about downloading everything from LoTW and installing it
back into DX4WIN if you think some QSOs were uploaded in error. That can
cause duplicates to be created.
73,
-Rick


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> Thanks Again,
> Mike / W8DN
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[Dx4win] More DX4Win vs LOTW Questions

[Mike Rhodes]

  First, thanks for bearing with me as I muddle my way thru this mess. 
As you can tell, I have not spent a lot of time with LOTW and the 
related DX4Win functions, even though I uploaded to LOTW several years 
ago (or at least I thought I did).
  After running AD1C's comparison program, I found a large number of 
mismatches. Next, I downloaded the LOTW report and imported it into 
DX4Win, thinking that would fix things. Wrong again! I found a BUNCH of 
DX4Win entries that did not show up in LOTW, exactly the opposite of the 
problem I thought I had.
  It appears that I have a number of Qs marked as uploaded to LOTW that 
are not actually showing up in LOTW. I do not know for a fact that only 
the one upload date is bad so I am thinking I should just upload the 
entire log, even though I am confident that at least parts of it have 
already been uploaded.
  Is that a safe solution or am I just going to make things worse. As 
in, is LOTW smart enough to recognize and delete/ignore duplicate Qs?


Thanks Again,
Mike / W8DN
DX4Win Since Version 0.97
WN8NBO in 1964
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