[Nodxa] QRZ issues with QSO confirmations for awards

[Glenn Williams]

Hi,

I love to comment on what software engineers assume or don't assume!

1. (Presuming) Somewhere, either in the LoTW world upload or in the QRZ 
world download from LoTW, there's a field that is populated with old 
data from a previous transaction.  I.e. the software does not clear out 
all fields before each transaction. So the old data gets loaded into the 
next transaction as bad data.

2. One or both of those systems, or maybe TQSL, could preload the county
field with a value that is known to be either blank or "EMPTY" which 
would be data that the remaining system(s) could decode and use as valid 
data.  I.e. "EMPTY" would provide useful instead of wrong information.

3. You take the ugly route and manually add a real or fake county field 
into your ADI file line before the LoTW upload.  If you know how to 
code, you could write a preprocessor to use for each ADI file before 
uploading into LoTW. However that last part is a problem if you have to 
manually look up the county in QRZ for each ADI text file line.  But 
with XML access into QRZ the field could be automatically filled
during preprocessing?

--73, Glenn, AF8C

On 6/14/2023 8:23 AM, K8ZM wrote:
> I don't usually put much stock in the QRZ awards but It seems that more and
> more op's are uploading QSO's with incorrect profile data.  Just this month
> alone some 30 or so QRZ is reporting as "ineligible for award".  The GRID
> award and the US County are the two with the most significant number.  Is
> anyone seeing the same or similar thing ??
> 
> To resolve each one I have to email my QSO partner(s) and ask them to update
> their profile or otherwise change their profile for the QSO in question.  I
> also have noticed that QSO's downloaded from LoTW into QRZ have data that I
> never uploaded to LoTW, i.e., say I upload a QSO to LoTW, then download from
> LoTW to QRZ, QRZ reports the QSO is ineligible for a County award because my
> QSO partners county from my record doesn't match that of my QSO partner,
> problem being my QSO record never had any county data at all for my qso
> partner and yet QRZ has populated that field with an incorrect county...so
> how would QRZ get county data from my LoTW QSO record when my uploaded
> record had no county data in the first place ???
> 
>   
> 
> Any wisdom appreciated..
> 
>   
> 
> Brad, K8ZM
> 
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> 
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