Here is the application note:Working with LoTW and DX4WIN
Enjoy, 73 Art W6KY
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From: Ed Douglass <aa9oz...@gmail.com>
To: DX4WIN Reflector <dx4win@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 8:14 PM
Subject: [Dx4win] DX4WIN, LoTW, and the DXCC Award
I would appreciate some help to more thoroughly understand in what ways
DX4WIN (v.8.05) "communicates" with the Logbook of The World program (LoTW)
and possibly also with the DXCC desk at the ARRL. I haven't been able to
find answers to my questions using the HELP services in DX4WIN.
The ability of DX4WIN to export my logs to LoTW and for LoTW to send a
report of successful matches back to DX4WIN is wonderful. It is not clear
to me, though, if DX4WIN also communicates with the DXCC desk at the ARRL
with regard to paper QSL cards that have been checked, submitted, and
approved. Does DX4WIN have this ability as well?
What about the meanings of the letters W, L, M, C, S, and the asterisk(
"*") in the DXCC Listing report?
The "W" (for station worked) seems clear enough.
The letter "L" seems to mean that I put a "Y" in the box under "Label" in
the QSO window, asking DX4WIN to mark a QSO so that a label can be printed
later. Does the "L" mean anything else?
The DX4WIN instructions say that the letter "M" means I mailed a QSL card
for a contact I made. What is the "trigger" in DX4WIN that causes an "M"
to appear? Is it that I have entered a date in the "QSL Date" boxes? Not
that I have put a "Y" indicating I want to create a label? Am I right that
the "M" has to do only with my outgoing paper QSL cards?
The DX4WIN instructions say that a "C" means a QSO has been confirmed.
Confirmed by whom? Is this because LoTW found a match to my QSO? Or is it
because the DXCC desk knows I have a valid paper QSL card for the QSO and
tells DX4WIN about it? Or is it because I have received a paper QSL card
and I have entered a "Y" in the "Cnfm" box?
Does an "S" (for submitted) mean that I have exported a QSO to the LoTW
program but a match was not found at the time of export? If the other
operator exports his or her logs to LoTW after my submission, does LoTW
remember that I am still looking for a match? Or do I have reset the
upload flag and clear the date of the original export in order to try again
for a match? Does the "S" also signify that I have submitted a valid paper
QSL card to the DXCC desk at ARRL?
Finally, the asterisk ("*") is said to mean that the QSO has been approved
for the award. Approved by LoTW (because LoTW found a match)? Approved by
the DXCC desk at ARRL (because I submitted a valid paper QSL card?) Or
does the asterisk mean simply that a matched (or Confirmed?) QSO meets the
rules of the DXCC award program? Does the asterisk have anything to do
with paper QSL cards that have been checked and submitted to the DXCC desk?
I look forward to some help.
73 de Ed, AA9OZ
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