This is GREAT! As I've done nothing since that initial card-based DXCC submission, I'll start with this process and go forward.
I'll have to dig, but I'm not sure I have the list of that submission. If I remember correctly, it was field checked. Would the ARRL have that record? Eric On 1/7/09, Jim Reisert AD1C <[email protected]> wrote: > Before doing your next endorsement, you first have to make you > existing DX4WIN DXCC award flags match the LoTW DXCC Award Credit > Matrix. This is what the program I wrote helps you with. > > First, make sure any/all Submitted flags are cleared. Use Reports -> > Change Award Flags to do this. You must select "Clear Submitted" and > do it for three awards - DXCC Mixed, DXCC Band and DXCC Mode. > > Now using the records of what cards you submitted, and the list of > credits you were awarded, manually change the award flags for those > QSOs to "Checked". LoTW won't tell you what cards you submitted, so I > hope you have accurate records of what cards you submitted, and what > credits you were given for them (I always Xerox (tm) everything, > including the cards). You'll have to do this for all 157 cards. It's > easier to do it this way, than to submit everything in DX4WIN and > "unsubmit" credits to get DX4WIN and LoTW to match. > > NOTE: you don't have to identify the EXACT QSO you got credit for, but > you must pick a *confirmed* QSO that matches the credit you received. > For example, if it was for Spain, EA on 40 meters, any one confirmed > QSO with EA on 40 meters can be marked "Checked". > > Then run the LoTW comparison program and make sure DX4WIN matches your > DXCC Award Credit Matrix. Keep working on the step above until it > matches 100%. > > At this point, SAVE YOUR LOG!!!! > > Going forward, you can now do a Reports -> DXCC -> Submission and > DX4WIN will set the award flags for new DXCC credits to "Submitted" > automatically. See my (or Kostas') earlier messages about submitting > the DXCC hybrid application. > > When you get the award back, that's when you use Reports -> Change > Award Flags to change the Submitted flags to Checked. Then you run > the LoTW comparison program again, and things should match up. If > they don't, then ARRL gave you credit for something you didn't expect, > or didn't give you credit for something you expected (for example, I > mailed a card in late 2007 which was missed by the DXCC checking > process at ARRL, so I had to submit it again this year). > > I hope this all makes sense. > > 73 - Jim AD1C > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Eric Rosenberg > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >From the user perspective, this process is unnecessarily complicated >> (from the programmer's perspective, I'm sure it isn't) >> >> A couple of years ago, I submitted and was awarded 157 DX countries >> countries by cards. >> >> LoTW shows that award, which includes band/mode confirmations along >> with another 27 credited. >> >> DX4Win shows 233 worked and 225 confirmed, also including band/mode >> confirmations. >> >> What I need to know is what cards I submit. >> >> I ran AD1C's comparison program, but that didn't help much, as there >> is not enough detail. >> >> I then went through DX4win's submission list and that didn't seem to >> correlate. >> >> I'm not sure what to do now. >> >> Any help is appreciated. > > -- > Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <[email protected]>, http://www.ad1c.us > _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
