RE: [Dxbase] DXCCdata entry person errors

Tue Aug 29 03:38:30 EDT 2006

Bill
It has been like this since the DXCC computer system began, with occasional errors in data transcription. I always advise anyone making a submission of cards via field checking to check their listing when the paperwork is returned to them. Mind you the way some people hand write their application it is not surprising!
What has improved is the ease of correcting mistakes now we can email the DXCC desk!
YMMV
73 Fred
G4BWP
DXCC Field checker
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> Subject: [Dxbase] DXCCdata entry person errors
>> Before the people at the DXCC desk throw a rock at me....I've found quite a few of my own
> errors this way. Marking the wrong qso as credited, which skewed my band totals. Actually
> messing up the callsign as compared to the card. So don't take this as a complaint.
>> With the aid of using LoTW's Awards module, you can now see all the callsigns, date, band,
> mode for each entity that you have both DXCC and Challenge credit for.
> (I haven't gotten to checking WAS as yet).
>> I am finding some data entry errors on the part of the DXCC typists.
> Usually minor things like transposing month/day
> an occasional 10 meters/10 megs type thing.
> Even a few were Callsigns were misread.
> Not the Entity... but like W9OL would be entered W9LO.
>> So far, I've not found anything like a mode error, but I've got about 2K worth of entries
> to check yet.
>> I did find out that prior to 1998, the year of the qso was entered but not the date. Then
> the newer software filled in the missing month/day with a default 01/01. This is of no
> consequence really.
>> The whole point of this is....when you get cards back, it's a lot easier to just check
> those against the files in LoTW than to wait till you see a problem and have to wade
> through hundreds..
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