NO! It is not even practical. ARRL did not use the same calls in their list that they had previously awarded for the DXCC awards. I had previously carefully entered the QSO that was approved by MODE and BAND as they were approved. When they went to LOTW, they used the most recent one that they had approved for you. The LOTW data does not include the information to know from each confirmed contact what award it was actually credited. The following is an example:
<CALL:5>TX0DX <BAND:3>20M <MODE:3>SSB <QSO_DATE:8>20000327 <TIME_ON:6>051106 <QSL_RCVD:1>Y <QSLRDATE:8>20040516 <DXCC:3>512 <CQZ:2>32 <ITUZ:2>56 <IOTA:5>OC176 <GRIDSQUARE:4>QH90 <eor> This QSO was credited for BAND, but not for SSB Mode, but you cannot tell that from the QSL record. The actual credited information is available on the site, otherwise the award data could not be calculated on the ARRL website. Most of us have kept up with this information for many years and have it correctly stored in DX4WIN at this time. There are actually two parts to this, though. 1) The adif import for LOTW download (with INCLUDE QSL DETAIL block checked) could be improved in DX4WIN to allow import since LOTW records contain IOTA, DXCC Country, state, gridsquare, cq zone, itu zone, qsl date, and county data same as a paper QSL in addition to the confirmation and some of this data is only available from a QSL card unless we can get it from the LOTW record. Again, it would be a disaster if you could not check each and every piece of data before using it. Believe it or not, many stations DO NOT know their correct Zone, etc., and the LOTW QSL data is absolutely WRONG is these cases. 2) IF ARRL makes the WHERE CREDITED data available in the QSL downloads, then Paul might consider importing this data into DX4WIN, but it would certainly require a separate program to import this into the log AND ALLOW YOU to determine that you wanted to accept each and every piece of information as it would destroy old records that are more accurate (although now dated) than the LOTW information. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dx4win] LOTW Upload Confirm/Submit/Awarded While I suspect this is going to be a nightmare for a short time, does anyone know a trick for getting the ARRL LOTW "Awarded" information into your DX4WIN database? I completed the "roundtrip" to get my ADI download and import it using "duplicate QSO sets Upload Confirmed" which is great, but those are also Awarded and I can't seem to use filters (10m, Upload Conf = Y) to do a mass QSO update. So it seems like I need to do a Submission, which will be a mess since I would need to manually set every QSL that was previous done (prior to DX4WIN and LOTW, too). It "feels" like I have years of work ahead of me to get LOTW and DX4WIN in-sync, since DX4WIN will need me to specify the specific QSO that was submitted and awarded and that detail doesn't seem to be readily available electronically. Ideas? 73, Byron _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
