Chris I have not found a way to get around this either. But I did create a workaround.
The filtering for cards you wish to submit does allow for placing a special set of characters in the Special1 and Special2 fields. Now I don't make big submission any more. But this is how I did it. Every time I found a card that was good for submission I would put the following code into the Special 1 field C-07-1 for Card-07(year)-1(first submission of the year) or When I saw a LoTW qsl that was eligible for a Hybrid submission I'd put L-07-1 (L for LoTW) Now when I decided to make my submission I would tell the Award Submission module to select only confirmed qsls with the C-07=1 in the Special1 field. So what you end up with. In the LoTW submission process it's only submitting LoTW qsls And in DXBase, it's only submitting confirmed qsls that you had not already included in the online LoTW submission. the printed sheet will only show the cards you selected. As the DXCC desk processes the LoTW submission first, there won't be any possibility of wasting money and getting a 'already submitted' notation for a band/mode/entity. REMEMBER NOT TO ACCEPT THE DEFAULT AFTER MAKING THE SHEETS THAT WILL MARK ALL THE QSLS AS CREDITED. Don't mark qsls as credited until AFTER they are returned in case some are not acceptable for whatever reason. As far as I've been able to determine, there is no way for DXB to know that you just accepted a LoTW qsl as being eligible for submission unless you so so indicate that prior to using the Award Manager. In other words, unless you mark it as 'credited', the award manager will think that that entity band/mode has not be credited even though it's marked as 'confirmed'. And you don't want to mark it as 'credited' until after it's been accepted. Even though, it looks as though the DXCC desk would accept it as good, it may not be. LoTW isn't just properly approved operations. A dxpedition could upload a log that hadn't provided proof to DXCC desk. I hope this helps.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Codella, W2PA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 8:03 PM Subject: [Dxbase] Combined LOTW/Card DXCC submissions > Hello out there in DXBase land. Is anyone doing combined Card/LOTW-credit > DXCC submissions on LOTW using DXBase? > > I routinely use DXBase to submit log entries to LOTW - it works very well. > I also import QSL information from LOTW into DXBase - that too works well. > So far so good. I now want to generate a rather large DXCC submission > containing *both* LOTW QSLs and card QSLs. LOTW lets you do this kind of > combined submission. Here's the problem: > > In the DXBase's DXCC Award Submission window, you can tell it to select > cards, LOTW, or both. But there doesn't seem to be a way to indicate a > preference for LOTW if "both" is selected. This would be desirable since > it would minimize the number of actual cards necessary in a combined > submission. > > I'm trying to use DXBase to generate a combined submission - but perhaps > it's not really set up for doing that because of this lack of preference > specification. The alternative is to start with the LOTW web site to > construct a submission with LOTW credits, then add card-only credits from > DXBase. That can't work completely automatically, since you can't > download a list of "what I intend to submit" so that DXB can import it and > see it. For this hybrid procedure you therefore need to manually check > the Award field in DXBase for those LOTW QSLs (QSOs) you're submitting > with the LOTW web site, *then* do a card-only submission from DXBase. > > I speculate that DXBase computes a list of submission items (confirmed > QSOs) working through the log from oldest to newest (this is just an > assumption on my part since the help file doesn't say what the scanning > order is - doesn't matter anyway since the same problem exists even if you > start with the newest and work back). In many cases I have both a card > QSL and an LOTW QSL for a given band/entity. In such cases I want DXBase > to give priority to band/mode/entities confirmed with an LOTW QSL over > ones confirmed with only a card QSL. For example, if I have England > confirmed by card in 1990 and by LOTW in 2002 (or vice versa), I want it > to choose the LOTW QSL instead of the earlier card QSL. > I tried a test case with my own fairly large log and checked the generated > "worksheet" listing to see if there is any LOTW vs. card preference built > in. Of course I didn't do an exhaustive check, but I looked at some > common DXCC entities, specifically Wales, France, and Italy, and double > checked the LOTW web site to see if there were any cards selected by > DXBase for which I also had an LOTW QSL. > I first noted that it picked a recent LOTW QSL for Wales on 40m even > though I have card QSLs too - that's fine. But it also picked a card for > France on 20m even though I have several 20m France QSLs on LOTW which > have also been imported into DXBase. Same with Italy on 20m - it chose a > card over several LOTW QSLs. So it seems evident that DXBase has no > preference for either cards or LOTW QSLs when "both" is selected in the > Award Submission window. > > In conclusion, the only sensible way I can think of doing a combined > submission using DXBase (as opposed to my hybrid LOTW/DXBase procedure > above) is to first generate a submission for LOTW-only QSLs, marking them > as submitted in DXBase, then do a second submission for cards-only. The > second submission should then pick only cards for which there is no LOTW > credit. Maybe that's how you're *supposed* to do it? The help file gives > no clue. > > Please advise on doing combined submissions if I'm missing some easier > way. > > 73, > Chris, W2PA > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected]
