Posted: 8/5/2013 3:21:46 PM EDT
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A couple of weeks ago, I worked a station in Samoa, on 15m CW. I promptly logged it, and uploaded it to LoTW. But then a funny thing happened. It never showed up in his Club Log, even though he had uploaded to it several times since our QSO. I figured that my call sign must have gotten screwed up somewhere along the way. It happens.
Now, it's not a big deal, but I was quite positive about the QSO, so the misconnect just seemed a little strange. Of course, you can't delete an entry from LoTW, but I did go back and remove the QSO from my log book. Then, I totally forgot about it. Fast forward to today.....The QSL shows up in LoTW. I check his CLub Log, and there I am. A nice surprise, and I'm off to put the QSO back in my log book. 
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A couple of weeks ago, I worked a station in Samoa, on 15m CW. I promptly logged it, and uploaded it to LoTW. But then a funny thing happened. It never showed up in his Club Log, even though he had uploaded to it several times since our QSO. I figured that my call sign must have gotten screwed up somewhere along the way. It happens. Now, it's not a big deal, but I was quite positive about the QSO, so the misconnect just seemed a little strange. Of course, you can't delete an entry from LoTW, but I did go back and remove the QSO from my log book. Then, I totally forgot about it. Fast forward to today.....The QSL shows up in LoTW. I check his CLub Log, and there I am. A nice surprise, and I'm off to put the QSO back in my log book.
He has been a little "weird" with his uploads. I think some of his operations must be portable or mobile, paper logged. I've worked him on 5 bands now, and sometimes QSLs showed up in weird order for me too. I think it's a situation where WE need his QSL far more than HE really needs ours. |
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One of the QSL headaches which plagues QSL managers and LOtW is that it depends on the operator to download to them periodically.
While I have had some QSL managers get nack to me riki tik, the same manager with a different operator takes months because the operator hasn't done his part. In this case maybe he partially downloaded. Who knows? Maybe it was another log on another computer. There are a shitload of reasons for that. |
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Holy cow! I just got another one.
Several months ago, I contacted French Guiana during a contest. It was on SSB, and was another contact that I knew was legitimate. But even though he has uploaded to LoTW many, many times since that contest, I never got the QSL. I figured it had gotten lost somehow.....until today.
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