[NCDXA] LoTW Inconsistencies

[Mike Cizek]

Greetings - 

I'm having trouble with my LoTW records, and wonder if any of you have
noticed something like this, or if I am doing something wrong.  I use DX4WIN
for logging, and have posted to that reflector, but this does not appear to
be a DX4WIN issue.  I think it is strictly a LoTW problem. 

After doing a large LoTW upload, then a DXCC application (and waiting until
it was processed), I ran dx4wlotw.exe, went through all of the mismatches
and changed them so there were no mismatches between my Award Credit Matrix
from ARRL and the DXCC Listing report generated by DX4WIN.  After doing
this, I would expect the CHECKED column in the DX4WIN report to match the
AWARDED column on my LoTW Account Status page, but they are different.  Each
band score is different, and the DXCC Challenge score is over 100 counts
different.  ARRL thinks I have credit for more countries than DX4WIN does,
in each case.

I decided to check by band, starting with 160m.  ARRL gives me credit for
two more countries than DX4WIN lists as being checked. On LoTW, selecting
160m, All Credits, sorted by prefix, and comparing that listing to the Award
Credit Matrix, I find two countries on the 160m list that do not have
corresponding X marks in their respective boxes on the Award Credit Matrix.
Clicking on QSO Details for each of those QSOs shows that they are, in fact,
confirmed through LoTW.  This is not a case of selecting the wrong QSO, or a
QSO that occurred before DXCC records were computerized.  Both of these QSOs
are within the past few years, are the only 160m QSOs with those countries,
and show as confirmed contacts but do not appear in the Award Credit Matrix.

Have any of you noticed anything like this in your LoTW records?  How can it
be cleaned up?  Thanks.

73,
 
Mike Cizek W3MC