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2025 Submission Tool

Posted on April 27 2025 by Mark Wohlschlegel • WC3W

Included in a few comments on emails back to us, are suggestions that our submission tool is not doing the job.  On the other hand, we have hundreds of emails that have told us that it has significantly simplified the submission process, AND it allows for submission and tracking progress all year long.  We are immensely happy with this tool and will continue to use it.  I would like to point out the “notes” that are on the entry page.  Please read and understand them.  This is very important because comments made on some of the emails we are getting back…I think maybe some of these points are not understood.

Notes: Your QSOs will be grouped by Entity and Zone and the first one will be suggested as selected. It might not be the best one, and it might even be on the wrong entity, so please review each selection before submitting.

This tool might not do the best job at selecting the right QSOs for your entry. YOU are responsible for each final selection.

You can start editing your entry and come back later to continue. You can even upload additional or updated ADIF files later. 

You can also submit your entry multiple times, and only the last one will be considered.

This tool keeps all the data locally on your browser until you send your submission. If you clear your browser’s cache, you will lose your data and will have to load your ADIF files again and recheck your selections.

This tool works best if you provide an ADIF file containing ALL of your QSOs for the year with all possible fields. At a minimum, it should include QSO_DATE, TIME_ON, CALL, BAND, and MODE. If it includes DXCC or CQZ fields, we take them at face value, if not, we do simple callsign prefix matching, but this will be less accurate.

For WAE/CQ Entities, if your ADIF log includes “region” information, it will take precedence. Otherwise, we will look for specific callsigns for UN Vienna, prefixes for European Turkey, and IOTA references for Sicily, African Italy Islands, Bear Island and Shetland Islands. You might have to manually select other callsigns for the right entity.