Bummer that the "Sync LoTW QSLs" can no longer be relied on :(

+ It can be relied on for its original purpose: to update your logged QSOs to reflect their confirmation via LoTW.

+ Note that invoking "Update LoTW Status" on a logged QSO to which DXCC credit has been granted will update that logged QSO to reflect the grant of DXCC credit.

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+ AA6YQ comments below

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 09:00 PM, Stan Gammons wrote:

So, are you saying we will need to link the credits manually after submitting them using DXKeeper's DXCC submission generator and the QSO's have been granted DXCC credit?

+ That's the opposite of what I posted, Stan.

+ If you use DXKeeper's DXCC Submission Generator and are informed that credit has been granted to each confirmed credit, than one mouse click will "promote" the status of your logged QSOs to "DXCC Credit Granted.

+ What you can't rely on is the "Sync LoTW QSLs" function to perform this update.?

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So, are you saying we will need to link the credits manually after submitting them using DXKeeper's DXCC submission generator and the QSO's have been granted DXCC credit?

+ That's the opposite of what I posted, Stan.

+ If you use DXKeeper's DXCC Submission Generator and are informed that credit has been granted to each confirmed credit, than one mouse click will "promote" the status of your logged QSOs to "DXCC Credit Granted.

+ What you can't rely on is the "Sync LoTW QSLs" function to perform this update.?

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It was my understanding that the LoTW API invoked when you click DXKeeper's "Sync LoTW QSLs" button with the date YYYY-MM-DD shown
beneath this button would report

1. any new confirmations received date YYYY-MM-DD

2. any new grants of DXCC award credit made after date YYYY-MM-DD


In working through the issue that Pete N4ZR raised here

I was informed by LoTW staff that #2 is not correct. When you are informed that the LoTW-confirmed QSOs you submitted for award
credit have been granted that credit, you cannot simply invoke DXKeeper's "Sync LoTW QSLs" function to update your logged QSOs to
reflect the granting of that DXCC credit.

If you use DXKeeper's DXCC Submission Generator to select the QSOs you submitted for DXCC Award Credit, then your submitted QSOs can
be update to reflect their DXCC award credit by clicking the "DXCC Submission' window's "Verify Submission" button. This is steps 7
and 8 in the " Generating an LotW Submission" section of

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Note that you also have the option of having DXKeeper download all of your DXCC credits from the ARRL and use this information to
update the DXCC Credit status of all of your logged QSOs. This works smoothly for QSOs confirmed via LotW, but QSOs confirmed via
QSL cards may have slightly inaccurate DXCC credits as a result of data entry errors or shortcuts -- like specifying the correct
DXCC entity, band, and mode, but specifying an incorrect callsign or an incorrect date. Expect 25% of the DXCC credits generated
from QSL cards to require manual "linking" to your logged QSOs. Step-by-step instructions are here:

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While it's tempting to make a DXCC submission of QSOs confirmed via LoTW by letting LoTW pick the QSOs to submit, doing so is the
wrong choice for two reasons:

1. LoTW's selection of QSOs to submit is suboptimal; you may submit more confirmed QSOs than are necessary. For example, in need of
DXCC credit for P5 in both RTTY and on 160m (but not on 40m or Phone), LoTW might have you submit a 40m RTTY QSO and a 160m Phone
QSO when you have a confirmed 160m RTTY QSO.

2. You can't use DXKeeper's "Verify Submission" button to update your logged QSOs to reflect DXCC Credit granted with one gesture.

Thus you cannot rely on invoking the "Sync LoTW QSLs" function after being informed that the QSOs confirmed via LoTW that you
submitted for DXCC award credit have received that DXCC award credit to update your logged QSOs to reflect the granting of that DXCC
award credit.


73,

Dave, AA6YQ