AA6YQ comments below
From: dxlab@... [mailto:dxlab@...]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 6:47 PM
To: dxlab@...
Subject: [dxlab] DXCC Verification Discrepancy resolution how-to?
I¡¯m having some difficulty making sense of the DXCC Verification Discrepancies report and how to resolve what shows up on the report. There are two specific cases I¡¯m dealing with.
One example is the report contains a record for say entity=TK, mode=CW, Log Status=V, ARRL Status=null. On the ARRL LOTW website, my account has an entry for TK5EP, 15M, CW. This matches exactly a logbook entry which also has LoTW Receive Status=V. This credit is missing from the list of downloaded credits, which has been updated. I don¡¯t understand the discrepancy and how best to resolve it?
Log into your LoTW web account and view your DXCC Award Credit Matrix. (I can't cite a URL in "Using LoTW" that explains how to do this because LoTW is down for scheduled maintenance at this moment). Does it show that DXCC credit has been granted for TK in CW?
There other example which I believe I have an explanation is from QSL cards that were submitted many years ago, long before LoTW. The LoTW credits do not contain band or mode, just entity.
That¡¯s not correct. DXCC credits created by submitting an LoTW confirmation always specify the entity, band, and mode.
The discrepancy report for these same DXCC entities call out band and/or mode discrepancies. I believe this to be caused by the LoTW credit missing both band and mode with the QSL status=V in the log. The question again is how best to resolve this discrepancy?
How/why was the QSL status set to 'V' in the logged QSO?
LoTW confirmations are not DXCC Credits; an LoTW Confirmation must be included in a DXCC application to generate a DXCC Credit.
DXCC Credits generated from QSL cards can contain errors in their callsign, date, band, and mode fields. Such credits must be manually linked.
I¡¯ve tried both Autolink and Repair for LoTW.
Neither will link a credit to a QSO unless the credit exactly matches the QSO. ¡°Imperfect¡± credits must be manually linked to their QSOs, as is described in
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Perhaps I should reset the LoTW QSL status and resend the QSO¡¯s to be processed again?
That will produce a result no different than what you now see.
For the paper QSL¡¯s, do I need to resend the cards for band/mode credit?
If the expected credit does not appear in your DXCC Award Credit Matrix, yes ¨C though you should first contact the DXCC desk and see if they can determine how a DXCC credit previously granted has disappeared.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
