Happy New Year!
Many years ago, I wrote a utility to help you compare the DXCC credits
granted to you by ARRL with the Checked DXCC credits in your DX4WIN
log:
http://dx4win.ad1c.us/lotw/
This is helpful if you have been using the Reports menu in DX4WIN to
make DXCC submissions, following the Confirmed -> Submitted -> Checked
model. For more information on how this works, see this now
10-year-old application note:
http://dx4win.ad1c.us/appnotes/dxcc.html
If you are not using both DX4WIN and LoTW to maintain award credits
for VUCC (VHF/UHF Century Club) or WPX (Worked All Prefixes), you can
stop reading now.
I am also working and submitting VUCC grid squares on 6 meters. Some
time back, I tried to implement a way to compare VUCC award credits,
hoping it would work the same way as DXCC (same utility). However,
whereas ARRL lets you download an ADIF file with all your DXCC
credits, it does not provide this same feature for VUCC. I did look
into using this K1MU utility to download your VHF QSOs from LoTW to an
ADIF file:
http://www.rickmurphy.net/lotwquery.htm
The ADIF file you download does include some VUCC award credits, but
only those made using LoTW confirmations. Any paper QSLs you sent in
for VUCC credit are NOT listed in the downloaded file. If you have
submitted both QSLs and LotW confirmations for VUCC credit, that's not
very useful.
Still, there is a way to get a list of all the VUCC Grids that have
been credited to your ARRL award account, from the LoTW website, that
includes both paper QSL and LoTW confirmations, but it's not as
straightforward as simply clicking on a link to download a file.
Yesterday, I updated the Compare DX4WIN to LoTW utility to support
comparing VUCC credits. I intend to release this update no later than
the weekend of January 11/12, 2020. I hope that others find it
useful. I have a bunch of VUCC award credits to fix in DX4WIN to make
things match. Of course, there will be detailed instructions on how
to download the list of VUCC credits from LoTW in a form that the
utility accepts.
The reason for this long message is that I could add similar
functionality for the CQ WPX award, because you can use LoTW to submit
confirmations for the WPX award. It would work in a way similar to
VUCC. If no one wants this, then I won't bother to add this
additional functionality to the utility. If you *do* want this,
please let me know. I'll probably need a copy of your log and your
LoTW WPX credits in order to debug the changes, because I have never
applied for a WPX award.
73 - Jim AD1C
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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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