LOTW working correctly

[AC2OY]

Moderators please move if this isn't the proper place to post this thread. In short I have a question,how do you know if LOTW is working properly? I ask this because I have made quite a few Q's with no confirmations for months now. I had computer issues a while ago so I'm wondering if it maybe screwed up my certificate. I found it in my download folder. I use N3FJP's AC logger program which links to LOTW and it says no errors. Any input or expertise on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[res5cue]

Log onto arrls lotw Web page and check your Qsos. It will tell you when the most recent Qso Was received ..in the submit query form just hit submit and it will show you all your confirmations. 73 N2KOJ

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[AC2OY]

That's the thing rescue 5 there aren't any new ones. Out of 290 I have 32 confirmed.

 

[Thunderknight]

There are two quick searches, one is the most recent QSLs and one is the most recent QSOs.
Select "Your QSOs" from the main menu then select "Most Recent QSOs" under the Common Queries on the right side of the search box. Look and see if these match what you have in your logging program.
QSOs are uploaded contacts
QSLs are confirmed contacts. The QSO search will show confirmations (QSLs) by listing them as their DXCC entity under the QSL column in the search results.

 

[AC2OY]

Something is wrong last QSL I received is 7/26/2015. So how do I fix this?

 

[AK9R]

How do you fix it? Contact LotW Support. When you are logged into the LotW web site, you should see a panel on the left side of the screen titled "About Logbook of the World". The last item in that panel is "Getting Help". Click on that link and you'll find a FAQ, troubleshooting tips, support email addresses, and a link for submitting a help ticket.

One of the obvious questions that you have to ask yourself is whether or not you are submitting QSOs with the correct time. They must be in UTC time, not your local time. I don't know how N3FJP's logger program handles that.

By comparison, I currently have 3,861 QSO records and 2,420 QSLs in LotW. My most recent QSL-ed QSO was on April 3 (I haven't been on the air much this month).

 

[AC2OY]

I checked Tqsl and my certificate is there and it's good until 2018. I had no idea that it stopped working last year I'm thinking all along these Q's were uploading all along. A lot people are going to be mad at me. I once talked to Norm but I can't find the telephone number.

 

[N0IU]

A lot people are going to be mad at me.

Don't lose any sleep over it. No one will be mad at you, I promise.

I think W9BU might be on the right track as far as the time goes. I don't use the N3JFP program either, but if it converts your local time to UTC, you might want to check that it is taking Daylight Savings into consideration when converting from local to UTC. With LoTW, your time and the other station's time must be within 30 minutes of each other in order to constitute a match but if the times are 1 hour apart because you are not converting the time correctly, you won't get a confirmation.

One of the things you can do is to look at one of the contacts from your logbook made after 7/26/2015. Open the LoTW website and click on the "Find Call" tab. Put the other station's callsign into the search box and click "Look for callsign". After you do this, it will display the last time that station uploaded a log to LoTW, if at all. Of course it will not tell you what is his log (this is part of the double-blind system) but it will tell you if he uploaded a log after the two of you made contact.

If he uploaded a log after the two of you made contact, you might take a shot at looking him up on QRZ and see if he shows his email address. If he does give his email, then you might want to sent him a friendly note informing him of the details (time, date, band, mode) of the contact you had with him and ask if you are in his log. If he is a nice guy (which I am sure he is), he will respond with the details from his log and either they will match yours or they won't. If they do not match, then you will be able to see what differences there are between your logs.

If there are differences between your logs, try this with a few other contacts from your logbook and see if there are any trends among them that might help give you a clue as to what might be the cause of the non-confirmations.

Clear as mud, eh?

 

[AK9R]

TQSL has gone through several revisions since last summer. Run TQSL by itself, click on Help, and then click on Check For Updates. Run any program and catalog updates that it calls for.

I don't use the N3JFP program either, but if it converts your local time to UTC, you might want to check that it is taking Daylight Savings into consideration when converting from local to UTC. With LoTW, your time and the other station's time must be within 30 minutes of each other in order to constitute a match but if the times are 1 hour apart because you are not converting the time correctly, you won't get a confirmation.

This might be cheating, but it also might reveal the problem.

Use Scott's technique to verify that the other guy has uploaded his log to LotW. Then, pick a QSO in your logging program with that guy that occurred after 7/26/2015 and change the time one hour back. Have N3FJP re-upload the contact. If you get QSL, then the time is the problem. If changing the time back doesn't work, try changing the time forward one hour to see if that works.

 

[AC2OY]

TQSl most current is 2.6 I did that but I thought Scotts AC logger converted to UT C time that's the time I put in my log and all the login software I use. It worked perfectly up to that date. I thought it was strange that it stopped updating. I'm reading that all the NPOTA folks are uploading a day or two later. I must have messed up something. I'm not to good with cumputers.

 

[AC2OY]

Ok I just logged a contact with myself in AC logger and it said time on 21:48 so I guess it is converting the time correctly.

 

[AC2OY]

I want to thank everybody who helped earlier. As far as I could tell I had a duplicate EQSL certificate and the station location was screwed up. A friend walked me through going into LOTW and fixing the certificate stuff. Now all is well and the adif file uploaded and I now have 54 or 55 confirmed. So all is well in logger land now.