[Dxbase] Joe wa6axe - eQSL lessons learned - update to myprevious

Mon Sep 7 18:34:42 EDT 2009

Me too, I have used eQSL since it started, no problems.
73
Bob W4OWY / V25WY
FireBrick wrote:
>As did Joe, I got lots of emails asking me to fix (re: change/create) qsos.
>I found an option in eQSL that prevents people sending me email requests.
>Since then....no more requests.
>>For the honest who use eQSL, I upload my logs.
>>>>On 9/7/2009 5:10:57 PM, Gary AL9A (al9a at mtaonline.net) wrote:
>>>>I recently got an email from an eqsl user wanting to know why I had
>>rejected
>>her eqsl as not being in my log when I had already confirmed her via LOTW
>>>>and sent her a QSL card. That puzzled me too until I checked the date and
>>>>time on her eqsl against my log. There she was, but with a different
>>call!
>>A quick check of the FCC license data showed that the call she was
>>seeking
>>to confirm via eqsl
>>wasn't issued until one week after our QSO! Apparently
>>the incompatibility of the issue date of her new license and the date of
>>the QSO under the old license was lost on her!
>>>>I also get a lot of rejected eqsl's
>>in my Inbox due to people keeping their
>>logs in local time rather than UTC time. This also frequently causes lots
>>>>of date errors - off by one day due to the UTC date changing at 0000 UTC
>>while their local date
>>doesn't change until midnight local time. Of course,
>>I should be able to figure out their local time zone, DST or standard 
>>time,
>>convert that into AK time and then convert that info to UTC to see if it
>>matches my log. Sure, I have nothing else to do!
>>>>73,
>>Gary A 
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