Yes, I make submissions on line from IOTA Contest logs, LoTW and ClubLog confirmations. Also thru my IOTA card checker when I only have a card, no electronic submission.
But, how do the DX4WIN flags get populated? What changes them from -- to S or C? How does DX4WIN know I made a submission? I keep separate IOTA listings from the IOTA website. I haven't figured out how to have DX4WIN track when I have a confirmation. To me it would be very difficult to have DX4WIN track IOTA confirmations. IOTA only needs ONE, only ONE confirmation. Any band, any mode. You could work the same IOTA over and over on many bands and modes but only the first confirmation is counted. Any after that are ignored. Not like DXCC where you get credit for different bands, modes, etc. For example, I started tracking my IOTA's in 1990. I worked T32HK in 1990 for OC-024. I have logged many stations on OC-024 on many bands and modes, 117 in total, but only the very first in 1990 counts. Alan Zack Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ -----Original Message----- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Kostas SV1DPI Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 10:19 PM To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] IOTAs and DX4WIN Hello Alan that boxes are filled when you make an application in RSGB, When you submit, S (submitted) is filled and when you have the QSOs checked you must change it to C (checked). DXCC flags work the same way. If you made a submission and you did not send the cards to the checker, you can clear them (reports>clear award flags) 73 Kostas SV1DPI Στις 16/12/2020 06:43, ο/η Alan Zack έγραψε: > Hi Jim, > > Thanks for your interest in logging the IOTA's. I got big into IOTA > once I got 5BDXCC and needed a new challenge. Plus I have actually > been to many of the IOTA's. If there was a LORAN station on an IOTA, > USA manned or foreign manned, I have probably been there on USCG C-130 > flights. > One thing I don't understand with IOTA and DX4WIN. In the AWARDS area > (lower section of full main window) how does the IOTA awards box > become populated? Is that something you do manually? But I notice form > time to time I will see a C or S in that box. I wonder how it got > there? Is it from when I do a LoTW upload and one of my confirmations > is an IOTA? I do use REPORTS> IOTA to track my IOTA's (worked, QSL > mailed, confirmed). Is that where the awards box gets its inputs? > > Alan Zack > Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ > > -----Original Message----- > From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C > Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 03:42 PM > To: DX4WIN Reflector <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> > Subject: [Dx4win] IOTAs and DX4WIN > > Hi Folks, > > There may be confusion as to how IOTAs (Islands on the Air) work in > DX4WIN, how they get updated, etc. I would like to try to explain how > this works. I started to write an application note for IOTA, but > never really finished it, nor did I make it visible on the web site (I > guess I'll do that). > > http://dx4win.ad1c.us/appnotes/iota.html > > I'll just hit some of the high points below. > > > The IOTA field in your logbook works like the State and Grid fields -- > it is stored with the QSO record, and does NOT change when a new > country file is released. > > When logging a QSO, DX4WIN may automatically fill in the IOTA field if > it can uniquely determine the IOTA from the callsign and date, based > on information contained in the country file. Some DXCC entities like > Barbados, 8P have a single IOTA (NA-021). Some IOTA are determined by > prefix, for example, IG9 is AF-019 and IH9 is AF-018. And there are > thousands of callsigns in the country file that are mapped to a > particular IOTA, for example CE7KF is IOTA SA-018. DX4WIN will also > attempt to assign IOTA when importing QSOs. > > In DX4WIN 9.01 and later, there is a Multiple QSOs operation for > checking the IOTA fields in your log: > > QSO | Multiple QSOs operations | Check IOTAs. > > This does the following four things: > > 1. If the IOTA field is empty, and the IOTA can be determined from > both the callsign and date (i.e. via the country file), then an IOTA > is assigned to that QSO. > > 2. If the IOTA field is not empty, is the IOTA correct based on the > callsign and date, given the information in the country file? In > other words, if the IOTA field was blank, would DX4WIN have filled it > in with the same IOTA as you chose? If they do not match, DX4WIN will > do the following two things: > > a. Put the "correct" IOTA into the IOTA field in the logbook. > > b. Add some information to the "Notes for this QSO field": > "IOTAMSG: Bad IOTA=OC130" > In this case, OC130 was what your log had *before* running > Check IOTAs. > > I wrote "correct" because the country file can (and probably does) > have errors. If you think that DX4WIN made an incorrect substitution, > and you have the QSO confirmed, please send me the information from > the QSL card (IOTA and Island Name) as well as the callsign and date, > and I'll look into it. > > 3. If the IOTA Island field is empty, DX4WIN will populate that field > in the logbook if the IOTA group has only one island. Some examples > of this are Barbados, 8P (IOTA NA021) and Luzon Island, DU4 (IOTA > OC042). > > 4. If the IOTA Island field is not empty, check that it is a valid > island for the given IOTA group. If the island if not valid, you will > get an error message like this: > > IOTAMSG: Bad Island=00006312 > > The number above refers to the numerical code provided by the IOTA > committee to represent the island name in the IOTA group. It is > unusual for this to happen, but not unheard of. I had a number of > such errors in my logbook from QSOs which had the wrong prefix/country > assigned to them at one point in time, but subsequently changed based > on new information in the country file. > > There is also a Multiple QSOs Operation to remove all the IOTA error > messages from your log, once you have resolved all the problems. > > So in summary: > > 1. DX4WIN assigns the IOTA field automatically if it can do so. > 2. Subsequent releases of the country file will not change the IOTA > field in any QSO. > 3. There is a Multiple QSOs Operation to check the IOTA fields in > your log. > > Please reply to me directly or the reflector if there are any > questions about this. > > 73 - Jim AD1C > > -- > Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, https://www.ad1c.us > > ______________________________________________________________ > DX4WIN mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
