Before I left for a week of vacation (back now), I found a relatively
painless way to generate a card-only DXCC application in ADIF format.
I plan to document this elsewhere, but wanted to present it here,
before I forgot. I'm sorry that it's probably too late to make the
12/31 annual listing deadline for most people.
Please make sure of the following:
1. You have downloaded your Logbook of the World confirmations from
the ARRL LoTW web site, and imported these into DX4WIN (LoTW | Import
from LoTW).
2. You DXCC award is configured for both QSL card and LoTW
confirmations. You can do this via the Reports menu, then by clicking
on the Awards button at the bottom-right of the Report generator
window.
3. You are using the DX4WIN award flags to track Checked (approved)
and Submitted DXCC credits.
4. This method assumes that you will submit all possible LoTW
confirmations for credit, and only QSLs for which you do not have a
LoTW confirmation. In other words, if you are trying to save money by
submitting as many QSL cards as possible, and thus as few LoTW
confirmations as possible, this method isn't for you.
There are two ways to do this: the systematic way, or the brute-force way.
Systematic way:
1. Perform a DXCC submission through the ARRL Logbook of the World
web site. This will submit all of your electronic confirmations.
2. Manually change the correspond DXCC award flags to Submitted for
each credit submitted through the LoTW web site. After this is done,
it is a good time to save your DX4WIN log.
3. Perform a DXCC submission in DX4WIN, via the Reports menu. You
can save or print the submission report, but you really don't need it.
(continue at #4 below)
Brute-force way:
1. Perform a DXCC submission through the ARRL Logbook of the World
web site. This will submit all of your electronic confirmations.
2. Perform a DXCC submission in DX4WIN, via the Reports menu. You
can save or print the submission report, but you really don't need it.
3. Adjust the DXCC award flags so that the same QSOs that were
submitted for credit via LoTW are marked as Submitted in DX4WIN. This
may mean that some QSOs confirmed by paper QSL no longer need to be
marked as Submitted.
At this point, all of the confirmations you want to submit will be
marked as Submitted in DX4WIN. Now you want to identify those for
which you need to submit QSL cards.
4. Depending on the type of DXCC credits you will be submitting, you
may need to create up to three ADIF files - one for DXCC Mixed, one
for DXCC Mode, and/or for DXCC band. Make sure your QSO window is
expanded to show the Award flags (use F5 until you see them).
4a. For DXCC Mixed submissions, perform an F8 search. You will want
to search for 'Y' in the Cnfm field on the line that starts with
"Label", 'N' in the Cnfm field on the line that starts with "LoTW",
and 'S' in the Award flags in the DXCC column, Mixed row. If the
search reports "No matching QSO found", then continue on to step 4b
below.
Otherwise, in the main DX4WIN menu, File | Import/Export. You should
see the Import/Export Filters window, and the ADIF row should be
highlighted. In this window, choose File | Export from the menu.
DX4WIN will ask if you want to use the current filter. Answer Yes.
Save the resulting ADIF file to something like "2012_MIXED.adi".
4b. For DXCC Band submissions, perform an F8 search. You will want
to search for 'Y' in the Cnfm field on the line that starts with
"Label", 'N' in the Cnfm field on the line that starts with "LoTW",
and 'S' in the Award flags in the DXCC column, Band row. If the
search reports "No matching QSO found", then continue on to step 4c
below.
Otherwise, in the main DX4WIN menu, File | Import/Export. You should
see the Import/Export Filters window, and the ADIF row should be
highlighted. In this window, choose File | Export from the menu.
DX4WIN will ask if you want to use the current filter. Answer Yes.
Save the resulting ADIF file to something like "2012_BAND.adi".
4c. For DXCC Mode submissions, perform an F8 search. You will want
to search for 'Y' in the Cnfm field on the line that starts with
"Label", 'N' in the Cnfm field on the line that starts with "LoTW",
and 'S' in the Award flags in the DXCC column, Mode row. If the
search reports "No matching QSO found", then you are done.
Otherwise, in the main DX4WIN menu, File | Import/Export. You should
see the Import/Export Filters window, and the ADIF row should be
highlighted. In this window, choose File | Export from the menu.
DX4WIN will ask if you want to use the current filter. Answer Yes.
Save the resulting ADIF file to something like "2012_MODE.adi".
Now you can perform the DXCC submission using the ADIF files you
created, using the following URL:
https://p1k.arrl.org/onlinedxcc/adif.php
Ypu will have to log into the ARRL web site using your callsign and
ARRL password, both of which may be different from your LoTW username
and password. You are allowed to upload multiple ADIF files for a
single DXCC submission.
Finally, gather together your QSL cards and send them in!
The thing I like about this method is that it doesn't require you to
change any of your award preferences.
73 - Jim AD1C
p.s. I submitted an LoTW-only DXCC submission on December 21, and I
received the confirmation via postal mail (along with a new DXCC
sticker) before I got back home yesterday. I submitted a separate QSL
card-only application the same day. I don't expect to see my QSLs
returned for several weeks.
--
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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