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CQ Marathon Progress Report

 

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Today I worked a station I needed for CQ Marathon. I wasn¡¯t 100% sure it was a completed contact because of QRM. I logged the contact and placed an H in the Country Risk block in DXKeeper. Then uploaded the Q to LOTW.

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About an hour later I received a LOTW conformation for that Q and now both blocks are showing Y¡¯s. I then did a CQ Marathon Progress Report and find that the QSO for that call and country are still showing H even though conformation for the entry is showing Y.

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I also note that in the High Risk CQ Country section of the report the total for countries has not dropped back by one unit.

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Shouldn¡¯t the high Risk Country Total have been reduced by one when the conformation was received via LOTW?

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BTW I did a recompute for both DXK and SC. No change in the report.

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Julio, W4HY
 

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 1:00 PM Julio Peralta via groups.io
<jperalta4@...> wrote:

Today I worked a station I needed for CQ Marathon. I wasn¡¯t 100% sure it was a completed contact because of QRM. I logged the contact and placed an H in the Country Risk block in DXKeeper. Then uploaded the Q to LOTW.

About an hour later I received a LOTW conformation for that Q and now both blocks are showing Y¡¯s. I then did a CQ Marathon Progress Report and find that the QSO for that call and country are still showing H even though conformation for the entry is showing Y.

I also note that in the High Risk CQ Country section of the report the total for countries has not dropped back by one unit.

Shouldn¡¯t the high Risk Country Total have been reduced by one when the conformation was received via LOTW?
I don't think so. Why would you think that? A QSO may be high risk for
some other reason (e.g. there's some question about the validity of
the operation). If you no longer believe your QSO to be high risk, I
think you should adjust your log accordingly.

73,

~iain / N6ML
 

Thanks for your reply Iain. The reason I brought it up is that I think in past years if you had what was thought to be a high risk Q and it was later confirmed by LOTW the H was changed to an L and the high risk total was reduced by one in the CQ Marathon report.

Julio

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Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 4:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [DXLab] CQ Marathon Progress Report

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 1:00 PM Julio Peralta via groups.io
<jperalta4@...> wrote:

Today I worked a station I needed for CQ Marathon. I wasn¡¯t 100% sure it was a completed contact because of QRM. I logged the contact and placed an H in the Country Risk block in DXKeeper. Then uploaded the Q to LOTW.

About an hour later I received a LOTW conformation for that Q and now both blocks are showing Y¡¯s. I then did a CQ Marathon Progress Report and find that the QSO for that call and country are still showing H even though conformation for the entry is showing Y.

I also note that in the High Risk CQ Country section of the report the total for countries has not dropped back by one unit.

Shouldn¡¯t the high Risk Country Total have been reduced by one when the conformation was received via LOTW?
I don't think so. Why would you think that? A QSO may be high risk for
some other reason (e.g. there's some question about the validity of
the operation). If you no longer believe your QSO to be high risk, I
think you should adjust your log accordingly.

73,

~iain / N6ML
 

+ AA6YQ comments below

Thanks for your reply Iain. The reason I brought it up is that I think in past years if you had what was thought to be a high risk Q and it was later confirmed by LOTW the H was changed to an L and the high risk total was reduced by one in the CQ Marathon report.

+ The only automation that DXKeeper has offered in this area (and continues to offer) is the "Marathon Submission" panel's "Confirmed QSOs are low risk". With this option enabled, a QSO whose "Marathon Risk" item is unspecified will be considered low risk if it is confirmed via QSL card, LoTW, or eQSL AG.

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+ No version of DXKeeper has ever autonomously altered a logged QSO's "Marathon Risk" item.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ

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