It appears that I have been bit by this problem which has been talked about lately. I have been running with Log4OM for quite awhile and have not had any apparent problems. I have been uploading to lotw and have not noticed any contact validation issues between Lotw and what has been updated in LOTW. Within the last few days I started using Clublog. So yesterday I clicked on K5P in Clublog, and saw I had the correct number of contacts but noticed Clublog had only filled the timestamp on a couple of contacts. I tried to manually enter the time stamp from my log and that did not result in a match. So now I finally discovered the issue which has been talked about. In settings 1 I had the "SET start when leaving the CALLSIGN field" checked...big big mistake and I think that must have been the default. When working these dxpeditons I normally will enter a call, K5P, to get info and leave it there until I work them. In the meantime I will leave the call sign field and may do other log4om stuff ie bring up winkeyer whatever. So of course this sets the start time. I may not work the station for several hours. When I hit enter and finally log it, the start time and stop time are vastly different. Clublog I guess looks at the start time and of course that results in no match. I am not aware that I have had this issue with LOTW with differences in start/stop times. So I need to know what to do. The first thing I have done is uncheck the box in settings 1. Now I think I need to scan my entire log4om database and set start time equal to stop time. Then clear from Clublog and reload. But now I am wondering does LOTW deal with the data from log4om differently...does it look at the stop time and use it for the contact time? I might have a lot of LOTW contacts that should have resulted in a qsl that did not....And now I have also notice the issue about the date not advancing and I am not sure how that plays into my issues. I hope someone can sort this out for me and help me out.
Thanks and 73, Harry - W0LS
Start Time/Stop Time Woes
Re: Start Time/Stop Time Woes
LOTW uses the start time plus/minus 30 minutes. I have no idea what ClubLog uses.
K7PT-Chuck "#1 Top of the Honor Roll"
Re: Start Time/Stop Time Woes
Thanks Chuck for your response. I was afraid that my whole log was messed up. I started looking back in the log and discovered that there were no qso end times in the log at all starting from about 3/15 going back to the beginning of the log...just start times. So I looked at the entries from 3/15 to current and for any where there was more than a 10 minute difference I just set the start time equal to the end time. I then uploaded the log back to LOTW and Clublog and things were resolved. My only question is how does one configure Log4OM to not record a qso end time? That behavior seemed to end all of a sudden around 3/15. Not sure what happened at that point. Well things seem to be ok now and if nothing else I learned some more by having to troubleshoot the problem.
73,
Harry
W0LS
73,
Harry
W0LS
Re: Start Time/Stop Time Woes
With Clublog, I've noticed that if I edit the time on an entry it often results in a duplicate in Clublog if I have External logs set to "auto upload on new QSO" to Clublog... I'm not sure why Log4OM appears to create these duplicates. I've gone back to manual
73 Dave
73 Dave