Hi Dave,
On 3/24/25 21:52, Dave AA6YQ wrote:
# AA6YQ comments below
It would be handy if ADIF/Dave were to defined a 'P' (pending) status
for those of us who prefer to manually prepare submissions as the
confirmations arrive.
# You can setup a user-defined item named "Pending" and use whatever codes you like to represent the states of your manually-managed award submissions.
Using these instructions?
# No. This has nothing to do with user-defined award progress reports.
# Here's the scenario:
1. You've used DXKeeper to generate a DXCC award application, so you have QSOs whose "QSL Rcvd" and "LoTW QSL Rcvd" items are set to 'S' ( for "submitted").
2. You're waiting for the ARRL's DXCC desk to process that application which can take months. When they notify you that your submitted QSOs have been granted DXCC Award Credit, you'd direct DXKeeper to "Verify" your submission to reflect the granting of DXCC award credit by change each 'S' in a "QSL Rcvd" and "LoTW QSL Rcvd" item to 'V'.
3. However, before you receive notice that your application has been processed, several more confirmations for previously unconfirmed DXCC entities, entity-bands, or entity-modes arrive. Instead of waiting until the DXCC desk finishes processing the application you've already submitted to complete step 2 and then direct DXKeeper to generate a new submission, the request to make it possible to manually generate a second application that includes then new LoTW confirmation. This can be done by defining a user-defined item called "Pending", and setting it to 'C' in each of those QSOs newly confirmed by QSL card, and to 'L' in each of those QSOs newly confirmed by LoTW.
4. At that point, you would
4a. make a copy of your log file
4b. direct DXKeeper to "Verify" the current submission
4c. direct DXKeeper to generate a new DXCC submission, which would automatically include those new confirmations (the ones their Pending items set to 'C' and 'L') and produce the documents needed to submit a second application
4d. revert to the Log file created in step 4a
4e. when you receive notice that your first DXCC application has been processed, you would direct DXKeeper to Verify it, changing each 'S' in a "QSL Rcvd" and "LoTW QSL Rcvd" item to 'V'
4f. then you would
4.f.1 filter the Log Page Display to contain all QSOs whose Pending item is set to 'C' and use the "Modify QSOs" function to set their "QSL Rcvd" items to 'S' and clear their Pending items
4.f.2 filter the Log Page Display to contain all QSOs whose Pending item is set to 'L' and use the "Modify QSOs" function to set their "LoTW QSL Rcvd" items to 'S' and clear their Pending items
5. when your receive notice that your second DXCC application has been processed, , you would direct DXKeeper to Verify it, changing each 'S' in a "QSL Rcvd" and "LoTW QSL Rcvd" item to 'V'
Thus you will have worked around the limitation in DXKeeper's automation of DXCC award applications that only one submission can be outstanding at a time.
Thanks for the detailed explanation.? Having to do all that makes my
head hurt.? I'll pass and stay with the way I've been doing it.
73
Stan
KM4HQE
