LoTW user known how?

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KA4CDN
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LoTW user known how?

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The user manual says "Cluster time coloured red
When the time for a spot is in a red font it indicates that the spotted station is a known LOTW user"

How is a user "known" as uploading to LoTW?

Do it check the lotw-user-activity.csv file? Or is it relying on what the station has entered on their QRZ page? I ask because I worked EP5MMS after see the spot colored red to indicate LoTW but when I checked on LoTW, EP5MMS has never uploaded a single record. I downloaded the latest lotw-user-activity.csv file and again, EP5MMS is not in it.

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Re: LoTW user known how?

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KA4CDN wrote: 29 Dec 2023, 15:17 Does it check the lotw-user-activity.csv file?
Yes and its saved as LOTW.txt in your C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\AppData\Roaming\Log4OM2 folder

See https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/develop ... s/?lang=en

But I am not sure what we do if the call is not found in that file, perhaps we then resort to QRZ but I dont think so
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Re: LoTW user known how?

Post by KA4CDN »

Happy New Years Terry. Thanks for the reply.

As noted in my question, the calls are not in the LoTW file but are marked as being LoTW users on their QRZ page. In the Cluster view and when the call is looked up from the CALLSIGN field, they are showing as LoTW users.

So I think that this deserves investigation and perhaps a change in that behavior.

All this in reference to version 2.30.1.0.
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