Hello,

Last night I opened my inbox to find new QSL cards listed. Since I could not print the cards at that time I closed my inbox and exited eQSL. I did not accept or do anything else to the QSL's. Now this morning when I can print them they are not in my inbox. Of course I do not remember the calls of the stations QSLing. How do I find and print these cards?

No automatic (archiving or confirmation) action should occur without a positive action from the user. I did not intend to confirm these QSL's until I could print them and then confirm them this morning. IMHO this is a defect in an otherwise excellent system.

73,
Marty, N3MOW

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N3MOW Marty McGlensey

There is no automatic confirmation of eQSLs you have received, unless they match entries you have uploaded via your logger or ADIF file.

eQSLs, confirmed or not, do get moved to the archive after you have viewed them, and that's where you will find them.

You can print, or confirm eQSLs from your archive the same way you do from your inbox.

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73, Dave - VA3KAB

David,

The only cards in my archive are ones that I confirmed and printed prior to signing on last night. Last night I opened my inbox, did a search, found two new cards, then closed my inbox and exited the program. I did not open the qsl's or view the cards. I did not confirm them. My question is what happened to those qsl's? They may be in my outbox with the other fourteen I uploaded on 6/29. There are forty entries there. Why are some highlighted in black? Are these eQSL members? It still seems to me as I'm missing those qsl's from last night.

73,
Marty, N3MOW

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N3MOW Marty McGlensey

Marty,

The only place that eQSLs get moved to after they have been in the inbox is your archive. I see you have 72 eQSLs in your archive, including five from June, 2014. I suspect you will find the two you think are missing if you go to your archive and click on the June 2014 link.

You have 384 eQSLs in your outbox, dated 19-Apr-2009 to 29-Jun-2014.

The shaded entries are: "eQSLs that have been displayed or archived by the recipient".

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73, Dave - VA3KAB

You are missing my point. I'll try again to explain.

1) I have two machines one is Linux based and cannot print a graphic. The other is a Windows PC that can print a graphic.

2) The 5 QSL's in the archive were confirmed and printed on the Windows PC several hours before I logged on using the Linux PC.

3) I opened my inbox on the Linux PC two QSL's showed there. Since I could not print them I exited the program. I intended to print them the next morning.

4) The next morning I logged on with the Windows PC to print the two QSL's and they were not there and they were not in the archive.

To say it another way the five qsl's in the archive were confirmed, printed and archived before I saw the two new ones on the Linux PC.

This may be a one time glitch but, I did observe it.

73,
Marty, N3MOW

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N3MOW Marty McGlensey

No, I understand you perfectly.

It is possible those two cards had a QSO date of something other than June, 2014. Entries in the archive are sorted by QSO date, not the date they arrived in the system, in which case they would be in a different folder.

The only way for an eQSL to disappear completely from your inbox/archive would be if the party that sent you the eQSL then deleted it from his outbox, that action removes it totally from the system. That could be what happened here, but without more details it is impossible to check.

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73, Dave - VA3KAB

OK. your explanation makes sense. To check the archive I'd have to check my printed cards against a given month/year in the archive. I could do it as I do not have that many cards and I always print them. If you see a better way please let me know.

73,
Marty, N3MOW

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N3MOW Marty McGlensey

There is no direct way to do that (I wish there was), but if you feel ambitious you could handcraft a URL to call one of our APIs to get you just the eQSLs that were received by the system on or after a specific date.

This API was designed by logging programs to use but you can also handcraft the call to the API.

Check out: http://www.eqsl.cc/QSLCard/DownloadInBox.txt , specifically the example that shows how to use the "RcvdSince " parameter.

Change the username and password obviously, and put in the date you are interested in, and it will return just the entries that came into the system on or after that date. Then, you will know where to find those entries in your archive, you will be able to search by callsign or date.

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73, Dave - VA3KAB
Edited by VA3KAB David Bell on Jul 2, 2014 at 02:13 PM

Ok Dave. I'll give it a try. Looks like I execute the call to the API from IE. Is that correct? I will use a date 06/28/2014. The API should return both an ADIF and TXT file. Any possibility of data corruption if the process fails?

Thanks and 73,
Marty

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N3MOW Marty McGlensey

Morning David,

I searched for all qsl's uploaded since 06/01/2014. There were eight. I have a card for all and all are in the archive. The inbox holds qsl's uploaded by others not by me. Is that correct? I've included the command line for the search below.

www.eqsl.cc/qslcard/DownloadInBox.cfm?UserName=N3MOW&Password=XXXXXXXX&RcvdSince=20140601

If that is correct it appears that there are no unconfirmed/printed cards for June 2014.
I think we've done all we can do to solve this one.

Must have been spooks in my shack. Thanks for your patience and help.

73,
Marty, N3MOW

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N3MOW Marty McGlensey

Good morning Marty,

Yes, the inbox contains the eQSLs that other users sent you.

If you still think there may be a problem, maybe the next time you check your inbox via your Linux machine you could copy down the callsign and maybe QSO date of the contact, with that information I will have something to search for at this end if it seems that some go missing.

But, in my experience that has never happened, although users think it happens from time to time :) There is always an explanation.

Always happy to help.

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73, Dave - VA3KAB