Add LoTW confirmations to your log
Select your log and the lotwreport.adi you downloaded from LoTW, and drop them together. Every QSO in the report is matched to the one in your log — same call, band and mode within 30 minutes, as LoTW matches — and your QSO is marked confirmed, with the date.
Getting the report
LoTW gives its confirmations as an ADIF file, usually called lotwreport.adi: download it from Your QSOs in LoTW, asking for confirmations since the last time you did this. Then drop it here together with your own log.
Why not just import it
In its report LoTW puts a confirmation in QSL_RCVD — the field ADIF keeps for paper cards — so a program that takes the file as it is shows every LoTW confirmation as a card. Here it goes into LOTW_QSL_RCVD and LOTW_QSLRDATE, where ADIF expects it, and the report QSOs merge into yours instead of sitting next to them as copies.
What changes in your log
Nothing but the confirmation: your name, QTH, grid, comments and the rest of each QSO stay as they were. A QSO in the report that is not in your log is kept as it is — check it, it may be a QSO you never logged or one with a wrong time or band.
Questions
- A confirmation did not match — why?
- Your QSO and the LoTW one must have the same call, band and mode and be less than 30 minutes apart. If one was logged on the wrong band, or the clock was an hour off, they stay as two QSOs: fix the wrong one in your logger and match again.
- Will my logging program read the result?
- Yes — it is a standard ADIF 3.1.8 file, with LOTW_QSL_RCVD = Y and LOTW_QSLRDATE on the confirmed QSOs.
- Is anything sent to LoTW?
- No. Both files are read in your browser; nothing is uploaded, and your LoTW password is never asked for.