[Dxbase] The Curious Case of the Missing QSOs

Sun Jan 23 16:46:26 EST 2005

I went back and checked all 24 of the submissions that I made which
includes one large file which inadvertently got sent five times. Each
of the submissions said they had been "successfully processed",
"entered" with "no errors encountered." The total unduplicated of all
QSOs submitted was indeed 109K as LoTW said.
I did receive a response that said that DXBase keeps a record number
even though a QSO might be deleted. I have been using DXBase since
DXB97 so I have had a number of deletions and did have one period when
there were a bunch of duplicates that I had to delete. I would be
surprised if there were 20K deletions but maybe that is possible. I
haven't checked yet to see if there is a way of counting the actual QSOs
in the database rather than the number of records. So far, this seems
to be the most likely answer to the case of the missing QSOs.
Tnx to all for the input.
73,
Dennis, K2SX
-----Original Message-----
From: FireBrick [mailto:w9ol at billnjudy.com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:51 PM
To: Dennis McAlpine
Cc: Dxbase at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] The Curious Case of the Missing QSOs
During the 'signing process' were there any 'error reports'.
Then go to the LoTW page, select 'Your Account', 'Your Activity', and
click on the 
'Result'.
If any submissions were rejected due to duplicates, or other reasons, it
should be noted 
there.
Let us know what you find please.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis McAlpine" <vze323tn at verizon.net>
To: <ARRL-LOTW at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <Dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:39 AM
Subject: [Dxbase] The Curious Case of the Missing QSOs
>I just finished uploading all but about 1000 of my DXBase 2005 QSOs
into
> LoTW. According to DXBase, I have 133,000 records. But, according to
> LoTW I only have 109K in their files. I went back to DXBase and did a
> select wizard on all QSOs not submitted to LoTW and that showed about
5
> that had not been sent out (other than the 1000 that I know about) so
> this would seem to indicate that all 133K QSOs have been uploaded.
> Checked the submissions on record at LoTW and it showed that I had
sent
> all of the QSOs. So somewhere 33K QSOs seem to have disappeared.
Does
> anyone have any ideas where they went? Any thoughts on differences in
> counting techniques?
>> 73,
> Dennis, K2SX
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