Interesting Ron. I never did a sort on that. Mine start at 5190 also. Guess there are some data that is being stored somewhere that uses some of the resources. I always knew the Ref# didn't relate to the amount of qso's. but never noticed the effect.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Stordahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dennis McAlpine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'FireBrick'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [Dxbase] The Curious Case of the Missing QSOs > You say 'According to DXBase, I have 133,000 records.' Where are you getting > that > number? If you are getting it from the "REF#' column in DXBase as the number > for your > last QSO, then click on that column header and it should sort by number. You > will find > that it does not start at 1. In my log I have about 21,000 q's, but the REF# > starts at > 5190 and ends at 26328, which seems about right. > > You can tell exactly how many Q's you have in your log by using the Selection > Wizard. > Set it for 'Test Only' and deselect most everything but 'Valid for DXCC' (you > can even > deselect that if you wish). Then run it, and I would guess you will get > about 109,000. > > Ron, N5IN > > > Dennis McAlpine wrote: > >>I went back and checked all 24 of the submissions that I made which >>includes one large file which inadvertently got sent five times. Each >>of the submissions said they had been "successfully processed", >>"entered" with "no errors encountered." The total unduplicated of all >>QSOs submitted was indeed 109K as LoTW said. >> >>I did receive a response that said that DXBase keeps a record number >>even though a QSO might be deleted. I have been using DXBase since >>DXB97 so I have had a number of deletions and did have one period when >>there were a bunch of duplicates that I had to delete. I would be >>surprised if there were 20K deletions but maybe that is possible. I >>haven't checked yet to see if there is a way of counting the actual QSOs >>in the database rather than the number of records. So far, this seems >>to be the most likely answer to the case of the missing QSOs. >> >>Tnx to all for the input. >> >>73, >> >>Dennis, K2SX >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: FireBrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 >>12:51 PM >>To: Dennis McAlpine >>Cc: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [Dxbase] The Curious Case of the Missing QSOs >> >> >>During the 'signing process' were there any 'error reports'. >> >>Then go to the LoTW page, select 'Your Account', 'Your Activity', and >>click on the 'Result'. >> >>If any submissions were rejected due to duplicates, or other reasons, it >>should be noted there. >> >> >>Let us know what you find please. >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Dennis McAlpine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Cc: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:39 AM >>Subject: [Dxbase] The Curious Case of the Missing QSOs >> >> >> >>>I just finished uploading all but about 1000 of my DXBase 2005 QSOs >>> >>into >> >>>LoTW. According to DXBase, I have 133,000 records. But, according to >>>LoTW I only have 109K in their files. I went back to DXBase and did a >>>select wizard on all QSOs not submitted to LoTW and that showed about >>> >>5 >> >>>that had not been sent out (other than the 1000 that I know about) so >>>this would seem to indicate that all 133K QSOs have been uploaded. >>>Checked the submissions on record at LoTW and it showed that I had >>> >>sent >> >>>all of the QSOs. So somewhere 33K QSOs seem to have disappeared. >>> >>Does >> >>>anyone have any ideas where they went? Any thoughts on differences in >>>counting techniques? >>> >>>73, >>>Dennis, K2SX >>> >>>______________________________________________________________ >>>Dxbase mailing list >>>Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >>>Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>Post: mailto:[email protected] >>> >>> >> >> >>______________________________________________________________ >>Dxbase mailing list >>Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >>Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>Post: mailto:[email protected] >> > >
