[Dxbase] HD crash

Sat Aug 30 08:59:05 EDT 2008

Jim,
 You can download the basic QSO data you uploaded to LoTW but 
information as to whether or not you sent or received a conventional QSL 
from a particular station can not be recovered from LoTW. You can, of 
course, recover those QSO's which have been confirmed on LoTW.
 Here is a resource you can use to do the LoTW recovery:
http://www.rickmurphy.net/lotwquery.htm
 Good luck.
Clark, W8TN
At 01:27 AM 8/30/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>I have lost both my primary hard drive and the one I back it up to. My
>next stop is a data recovery service, and I've been told that Fry's can
>do it more reasonably than other services. I'll have to start making a
>list of what I need recovered, but I have a couple of DXbase questions.
>>I have an old DXbase backup, which is several months old. It may
>contain my license file. Just before the crash I uploaded the log to
>LOTW. Of course that doesn't include what QSLs I have received, which
>is a huge problem. Ignoring that huge problem, if I reinstalled DXbase
>on a fresh HD, somehow got a license file, imported the last backup I
>have or can get, can I download a file of QSOs with QSL info from LOTW
>and import that?
>>Jim N7US