Your correct as far as I've determined. I've been doing it manually and this is one of the uses for the Special 1 & 2 fields that I use.
When I see a LoTW qsl for an as yet unconfirmed/submitted band mode, I manually enter LOTW into the special 1 field. After a submission I can do a Search/find on that field and manually mark the proper qsl that was credited... So far, I've seen that LoTW 'seems' to take the first instance of a qsl band/mode. Subsequent qsls for the same band mode do not get credit. So maybe looking for the earliest day may be a key. But here comes another problem. People who resubmit their log which results in previous qsls being overwritten. Not that LoTW qsl could have a new date. So that's not a sure thing either. I print out a label/card for each NEW LoTW band/mode qsl I receive. Sort of a placeholder card. It has the qso info for the submitted/credited qsl and I can quickly check if there is a change or whatever. As I'm chasing both the challenge and dream total, it's important for me to keep an up-to-date listing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Stordahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DXBase" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:33 PM Subject: [Dxbase] LoTW DXCC Awards recording procedure. > Before I go ahead with an awards submission via LoTW I want to be sure of how > I will > record it in DXB2005 when completed . > > It looks to me like I will have to manually set the DXCC flag in the Awards > column in my > log to indicate that the associated LoTW 'QSL' as been used toward DXCC. I > cannot let > DXB2005 do this automatically because experimentally I find that DXB2005 will > select a > different card (same country/band/mode but a different Q) from time to time > than LoTW > would do, although most of the selections will be the same. > > The LoTW award application procedure does produce all the information needed > to identify > the exact Q's it has selected, but this information must be manually delt > with at this > point. > > Anyone have another take on this? > > Ron, N5IN > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] >
