Using ver 8.05. I use the DX4WIN LoTW Export/Import feature to keep my ARRL LoTW database up to date. Following Jim's AD1C excellent instructions I export my most recent QSO's to LoTW named in the format LOTWmmddyyyy_adi. Before the export I take note of my number of QSO's currently shown on my LoTW webpage. After exporting the file to LoTW I export the very same adi file to ClubLog, my qrz.com logbook and eQSL. These sites do not care how I named the file and readily accept my adif files as LOTWmmddyyy_ .adi to update my info on these sites. For anyone not familiar with ClubLog if you export your log info to their website and later you look up a DX call to see if you are in their log and order a QSL via OQRS your contact info will be filled in, no need to enter your QSO date/time/band etc info, it is inserted for you in your QSL request. OK, after exporting my most recent QSO's to the ARRL LoTW website I go back and check the number of my QSO's now shown. If the new total matches the number of QSO's I just exported I know my export has been processed (sometimes this is very quick, may take several hours or even overnight). I then use Jim's instructions to download the ARRL LoTW report to my DX4WIN. I click the boxes INCLUDE DETAIL and STATION DETAIL. This usually works FB and updates my LoTW CFM flags EXCEPT for the QSO's that do not have a match. I then use the DX4WIN REVIEW QSO NOT FOUND feature and see a list of QSO's not found and possible matches. This is where the confusion comes in. Most of these mismatches do not make the LoTW CFM flag show a Y, but some do. I do not understand why this is. Anyway I follow the instructions and correct the mismatches. These are mostly because the state or counties do not match. So I make the corrections to my log as needed to make a match. After I make the corrections to have a match should I manually reset the LoTW CFM flag from N to Y or will it be reset to Y when I import the next ARRL LoTW REPORT to DX4WIN? This has been a very minor inconvenience to correct the few QSO's that have a mismatch and has been more frequent with NPOTA QSO's since these ops are traveling all over and are at different locations for different NPOTA contacts using the same call. For all my NPOTA contacts I made sure the STATE, COUNTY, and GRID boxes were blank so my later LoTW REPORT would fill in the blanks to avoid mismatches. But I still got mismatches based on differences between STATE or COUNTY entries. I am wondering where these STATE/COUNTY mismatches came from because my ADIF file to LoTW did not show and STATE/COUNTY data (I double-checked). I expected my ARRL LoTW report to fill in the blanks to avoid mismatches but it did not happen that way. But my main question is should I manually reset the LoTW CFM flag from N to Y after I correct mismatches or will DX4WIN do it upon processing my next ARRL LoTW report? And just a side note to anyone who worked AI8Z during NPOTA. AI8Z signed as /5, /7, and /0 from various NPOTA locations and I logged him that way. This is confirmed by his spots shown on DXSummit. But my AI8Z QSO's were not a match with LoTW with the portable designations. I checked if AI8Z had made uploads to LoTW with portable designations and found he did not so I made a separate entry to LoTW for AI8Z without any portable designations and had matches. 73 & HNY Alan Zack Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ Official USCG Auxiliary Comm Station Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Delta Rocket Quality Engineer, The Boeing Company, Retired Aviation Chief Warrant Officer, U.S. Coast Guard, Retired http://www.qrz.com/db/K7ACZ <http://gocoastguard.com/> http://gocoastguard.com <http://www.uscgradio.net/> http://www.uscgradio.net <http://www.comm-one.club/> http://www.comm-one.club <http://oldbluejacket.com/USCG_CoastiesRule.htm> http://oldbluejacket.com/USCG_CoastiesRule.htm ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net
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