Thanks Ed but I do not use LoTW and I have never applied for any DXCC Award.
Fortunately I manually enter my DX totals in a backup Excel file so after
some tweaking I ended up with a fairly up to date count, more than a few
surprises...
73,
Julio VE3FH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Muns" <ed@w0yk.com>
To: "'Julio VE3FH'" <ve3fh@yahoo.ca>
Cc: "'RTTY Reflector'" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Sun, May 01, 2016 15:45
Subject: Re: [RTTY] 2016 Digital Mode Most Wanted Survey - Session Timeouts
> There are instructions in the introduction at the top of the survey for
> using LotW for your needs list. On the LotW website, you can prefix sort
> all your LotW and paper QSLs credited to DXCC. Then, it is easy to
transfer
> to the survey which is also prefix sorted.
>
> Ed W0YK
> _________________________________________________________________________
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Julio VE3FH
via
> RTTY
> Sent: 01 May, 2016 12:23
> To: RTTY Reflector
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] 2016 Digital Mode Most Wanted Survey - Session
Timeouts
>
> Creating a wanted list was the first thing I tried as soon as the survey
was
> released but I'm using Winlog32 for general logging and that feature is
> broken, it has been broken for a while, the last time I was able to do so
> was back in Oct 2005... I will have to get creative and do some manual
> parsing...
>
> If anyone has any tips I'm all ears (I mean eyes)...
>
> 73,
> Julio VE3FH
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Gauthier (K8UT)" <K8UT@charter.net>
> To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sun, May 01, 2016 09:24
> Subject: [RTTY] 2016 Digital Mode Most Wanted Survey - Session Timeouts
>
>
> > My apologies to all who encountered that dreaded Session Timeout error
> after
> > devoting time to filling out the survey. The session timeout value in
the
> > LimeSurvey application was set for 2 hours, but it is obvious that the
> > survey timed out much sooner.
> >
> > After adjusting several settings this morning, my tests indicate that
the
> > server will now timeout after about 20 minutes. That is still not a lot
of
> > time if you are looking up 339 DXCC entities and jumping back-and-forth
> > between your logging program and the survey. However if you could create
a
> > worksheet in prefix order (the order of the survey) and do your data
entry
> > directly from that worksheet you should be able to click through the 339
> > items well-before your session times out. Here's another suggestion: Set
a
> > timer for 10 minutes. If you're not done by then, >Save Your Session and
> > return later to finish -- the timer will start over.
> >
> > Again, my apologies. We really do value the input from all Digital ops
and
> > hope that those of you who were thwarted by a session timeout will try
> > again.
> >
> > -larry (K8UT)
> >
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