I have never had an eQSL account before, so thought it would be a good idea to do when I changed my call sign back in Feb.

I initially set up the account shortly after getting the call sign, but did not set up a location at the time.

I saw a few eqsl's come in and verified a few manually, but never sent out any or uploaded any contacts.

Yesterday I was looking at my account and saw I had about 20 contacts and decided to send in a copy of my license to get verified (which has already been approved). I also noticed that I did not have any locations (QTH Nickname) defined in my profile, although there was some information there.

It would not let me change anything in the profile because I did not have a location defined. I could not add a location because I had already confirmed some contacts with no location. It said I had to delete the ones I had confirmed before I could add a location. I figured I could delete the 6 or so QSL confirmations and re-confirm them once I added a location.

After deleting the QSL confirmations I looked back at my inbox and confirmed that all the QSOs were still listed there. Then I wnr and added a QTH nickname to my profile. I entered city name and zip since would not save without those. (my grid-square was correct and I did not change that).

When I went back to my in-box it was empty. I also looked in archive and didn't see anything there.

I have made all contacts from my home QTH . The only thing i did was add a QTH location nicknaame and add information to blank lines, I did not change what was there. Where did all my current incoming QSLs go?

Thanks for providing this service!

Tom wa4ta

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WA4TA Thomas F. Armour, III

It looks like one of the things you did was change the callsign effective date range in your profile.

I see you have your effective start date to be 02/15/2013 and your effective end date set to be 12/31/1900, which won't work :)

I have changed your end date to be 12/31/2020. The start date should be the date you were first licensed as WA4TA, I don't know when that was so I'll leave it up to you to change it if required.

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73, Dave - VA3KAB
Edited by VA3KAB David Bell on Apr 4, 2013 at 04:05 PM

Thank you for the quick response!

It looks good now.

I did not change any field that was already filled in, just the blank fields that the system complained about when I tried to save the QTH nickname. I am not sure how that field got populated with 12/31/1900, but it was there when I looked at my profile, and not knowing any better I left it alone.

02/15/2013 is the correct start date for wa4ta.

Tom - wa4ta

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WA4TA Thomas F. Armour, III