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N2GXJ Jim Wright has contributed to 1 posts out of 11673 total posts
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EH9SDC ? CEUTA OR SPAIN Nov 17, 2011 01:08 PM
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This may not be the only country bug. I have been logging all my contacts to both eQSL (first) then LoTW (after export from eQSL) for the past 11 months to see which system would let me get to DXCC first. The answer was LoTW. However a more detailed look at the differences between how the two systems credit countries reveals a number of questions. The first thing I found was that eQSL sometimes uses a different country name than LoTW does, so that countries don't line up nicely in an alphabetized list for comparison. As examples: "Republic of South Africa" (R) shows up as "South Africa" (S), "US Virgin Islands" (U) shows up as "Virgin Isl." (V), "Asiatic Russia" (A) shows up as "Russia (European)" (R). Once the alphabetical differences were straightened out, I just did a compare of the countries/calls in my eQSL log vs those same entries imported into LoTW. I did this by comparing the Log/OutBox to see the list of named countries in eQSL for all the contacts I made (even if not QSL'd), then compared that with Award Credits (all countries list) from LoTW. I was very surprised to find listings for QSL credit in LoTW for which there was not even a country listing for in my outbox in eQSL! Recall that I exported the eQSL OutBox to create the input to LoTW! This seems consistent with the finding described earlier in this tread. As specific examples, the following countries had zero entries listed for that country in my eQSL Log/OutBox: OH0X (Aland Island) 4J9NM (Azerbaijan) PJ4T (Bonaire) LX/PA1AW (Luxembourg) VP2MDG (Montserrat) YN2ET (Nicaragua) PJ7X (Sint Maarten) VP5T (Turks & Caicos Islands) Kind of makes you wonder how big the problem is here? As a paying Silver member, I'd like an explanation, please! N2GXJ Jim Wright |
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