[Dxbase] How to update/synchronise DXB2007 Challenge stats withARRL Challenge stats?

Sat Sep 16 10:15:57 EDT 2006

John,
In your first paragraph, when you say "not confirmed", do you mean not 
credited? If you have submitted QSL's to ARRL that should have been 
credited but don't show up as such, you should resolve this matter with 
the DXCC people. When I get my DXCC credit listing back after my annual 
submission, I check to make sure that what I submitted actually got 
credited. If not, I contact the DXCC desk and things are usually taken 
care of very quickly - excellent service from them. In most cases, there 
report matches what I submitted, so no problem, but it's always a good 
idea to check.
If the cards or LOTW credits haven't been submitted yet, then they would 
need to be submitted. Remember, there is not a separate submission for 
the Challenge award. Cards and LOTW credits submitted for DXCC are (or 
should be) also credited for the Challenge Award. The next time you run 
the DXbase DXCC Awards module, check all the bands that you think you 
might have unsubmitted QSL's for (remember to exclude past submissions), 
along with the modes. If this produces too many qso's for one 
submission, deselect one or more bands and submit those qso's another 
time (or, of course, do the entire submission at one time and pay the 
extra fee in excess of 120 QSL's).
Incidentally, I usually have the Awards Module only select cards to be 
submitted, not LOTW. I do those separately online, and only submit LOTW 
credits if I don't have a card for that particular credit.
Hope this helps.
73,
Jim N6VH
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Farber" <kg6i at hughes.net>
> To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 6:30 PM
> Subject: [Dxbase] How to update/synchronise DXB2007 Challenge stats 
> withARRL Challenge stats?
>>> I'd like to know how you DXBase gurus synchronize your DXase2007 Challenge
> stats with those of ARRL. In particular, I have found several country/band
> spots for countries showing not confirmed by ARRL yet they show 
> confirmed by
> my DXBsae2007. So I need to know:
>> 1. Is there an automated way to generate the proper list of QSLs to
> send to the ARRL DXCC Desk in order to synchronize the two databases (my
> copy of DXBase2007 and the ARRL Challenge matrix listing).
> 2. If not an automated method, then just how, step-by-step have you
> folks accomplished this? I'm getting ready to send some QSLs in and want to
> make sure I include all needed to get me caught up.
>> Thanks, John Farber, KG6I
>