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Re: Thanks de K4LY and more questions

WILLIS COOKE — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:47:04 GMT

Obviously, I agree that LOTW is something we should be using. I think part of our increased return is that we are contesters and the more active hams are

Re: Thanks de K4LY and more questions

Dave AA6YQ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:40:05 GMT

Using the ARRL's ADIFout facility, Rick K1MU set up a query mechanism that makes it very easy to download either your uploaded QSOs or your LotW-generated QSLs

Re: Thanks de K4LY and more questions

N7mal — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:57 GMT

That's a change from their philosophy a few years ago. What I suspect is that 75% of the guys/gals couldn't understand/follow those instructions. Thanks 73 MAL

Re: Thanks de K4LY and more questions

Dave AA6YQ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:27 GMT

Directions for obtaining your uploaded QSOs from LotW in ADIF format are posted on the ARRL's web site: 73,

Re: Thanks de K4LY and more questions

N7mal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:45:27 GMT

Willis let me take a minute to post the actual LOTW facts as posted by the ARRL: There have been 250 million QSOs uploaded to LOTW. Sadly/unfortunately only

Re: Thanks de K4LY and more questions

N7mal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:25:48 GMT

Well Doug there is a way to get all your QSO's from LOTW. I had to do it a couple of years ago when my station got wiped out from a lightening strike.

Re: Thanks de K4LY and more questions

Doug Allen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:10:47 GMT

Hi Willis, Thanks for reply. Well you have a lot of LoTW contacts uploaded, too! I have also been using N1MM contest software recently, but used Writelog for

Re: Thanks de K4LY and more questions

WILLIS COOKE — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:20:49 GMT

You do have a lot of QSOs Doug. I just uploaded to LOTW and now have 21,471 up there with 4200 QSLs. Before you decide to only use LOTW, let me warn you

Thanks de K4LY and more questions

rohn45 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:05:10 GMT

So many of you were helpful Thanks! Learning curves seem steeper when you are old! Anyway, uploading an ADIF file by selecting date > will work just fine!

Re: Windows 7?

WILLIS COOKE — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:34:58 GMT

The setup works fine on my Windows 7 computer. You need to be logged in as an administrator to load anything on Win 7 or Vista. You might try

Windows 7?

Bob — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:49:12 GMT

Is there an update for windows 7? When I unzip the file, it tells me it can't open the setup file? Bob Cox [Non-text portions of this message have been

Re: Exporting to LoTW

WILLIS COOKE — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:53:00 GMT

Hi Doug. Go to Edit and open the Edit Defaults for new entries. Fill in the defaults that are approptiate. Get the date and time from the computer.

Re: Exporting to LoTW

Doug Allen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:24:33 GMT

Thanks all, I am having fun with XMlog and am part way up the learning slope! Thanks for the info on uploading a recent part of log to LoTW by selecting date.

Re: Exporting to LoTW

N7mal — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:35:17 GMT

I guess the 'logical' question to ask is QSO# 824 the last QSO in your log? If so then it is a very simple/easy procedure. You simply scroll back to QSO# 697

Re: Exporting to LoTW

Michael McCarthy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:29:58 GMT

Assuming that you set the "LoTW Sent" date field when you previously exported your log, then search for all "LoTW Sent" fields that are blank by just