+ Thanks, Valeria! I'm taking the liberty of posting your response to
the DXLab Group so I can solicit comments on the wisdom of
considering LoTW confirmations as "counting" for IOTA.

+ AA6YQ comments below
DXKeeper 15.5.9 made its homework all right. But the results do not reflect the actual situation. See the attachement.
If a QSO is confirmed by LoTW , it means that it MIGHT be also confirmed for IOTA . There are a few factors to be taken into consideration.
Contacts with operations where the DXCC Entity in its entirety matches only one IOTA Group (e.g. EA6, ZD8, D6, etc.) will be allowed credit. There are about 100 such Entities, which of course are identified by their unique DXCC Entity Code regardless of the callsign. It is only in these cases that confirmed by LoTW equals to confirmed for IOTA .
Then there are thousands of other operations/callsigns that need to be processed by the IOTA Operations Manager, and added to the Accepted Activations listing. This exercise will take quite an amount of time over the next few months. That means that initially many matches will not be available for credit. In these cases confirmed by LoTW means hopefully confirmed for IOTA, sooner or later, but who knows if and when .
Finally there are those cases when the operators request a delay for QSO matching purposes: confirmed by LoTW means not confirmed for IOTA for the time being, maybe in the next few weeks/months, or maybe never .
Under such circumstances, I suspect that extending DXKeeper to consider QSOs confirmed via LoTW as confirmed for IOTA might be confusing or even mystifying and misleading.
73, and thank you for a great piece of software.
Valeria, IK1ADH
+ Thanks, Valeria! I'm taking the liberty of posting your response to the DXLab Group so I can solicit comments on the wisdom of considering LoTW confirmations as "counting" for IOTA.
+ Note to DXLab users: DXKeeper 15.5.9 has not yet been publicly released.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ

+ AA6YQ comments below

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 06:27 PM, BILL KENNAMER wrote:

Actually, it probably better to use Club Log for IOTA. They’re already doing it, they know what counts for what IOTA, and dates of operation. I don’t think that LOTW would have that information unless it was uploaded by the user

+ LoTW has all the information that IOTA says it need to accept LoTW confirmations: callsign, mode, and band. See this IOTA document:

<https://www.iota-world.org/info/lotw_qso_matching-en.pdf>

       73,

              Dave, AA6YQ

+ AA6YQ comments below

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 06:27 PM, BILL KENNAMER wrote:

Actually, it probably better to use Club Log for IOTA. They’re already doing it, they know what counts for what IOTA, and dates of operation. I don’t think that LOTW would have that information unless it was uploaded by the user

+ LoTW has all the information that IOTA says it need to accept LoTW confirmations: callsign, mode, and band. See this IOTA document:

<https://www.iota-world.org/info/lotw_qso_matching-en.pdf>

       73,

              Dave, AA6YQ

Hi Dave,

those requirements may be enough for IOTA to consider a QSL as a confirmation but I'm not sure just those attributes will be enough for an accepted IOTA confirmation. For example their requirements for paper cards are much stricter in that the IOTA reference must be printed on the original card, i.e. writing it on afterwards is not acceptable, the information must be provided by the DX station. See https://www.iota-world.org/islands-on-the-air/qsl-card-requirements.html . I would be surprised if LoTW matches would be acceptable without an IOTA reference from the DX station.

73
Bill
G4WJS.

Bill

G4WJS.

Hi Bill.

Below is the last paragraph of the page dave sited.  Seems to indicate that they do accept "LoTW matched QSOs" and then credit them to your IOTA Award account.

"Once IOTA Management has accepted the LoTW matched QSOs and any others in your application that are supported by QSL cards, it will credit the QSOs to your IOTA Award account. It will also issue any awards or certificates for which you have applied and qualified. "

73.
Carl - WC4H

+ AA6YQ comments below

those requirements may be enough for IOTA to consider a QSL as a confirmation but I'm not sure just those attributes will be enough for an accepted IOTA confirmation. For example their requirements for paper cards are much stricter in that the IOTA reference must be printed on the original card, i.e. writing it on afterwards is not acceptable, the information must be provided by the DX station. Seehttps://www.iota-world.org/islands-on-the-air/qsl-card-requirements.html . I would be surprised if LoTW matches would be acceptable without an IOTA reference from the DX station.

+ DXLab's realtime award tracking for IOTA requires each QSO to specify an IOTA tag. The question is whether IOTA will require your QSO partner to have specified an IOTA tag in the "Station Location" used to submit your QSO.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ

those requirements may be enough for IOTA to consider a QSL as a confirmation but I'm not sure just those attributes will be enough for an accepted IOTA confirmation. For example their requirements for paper cards are much stricter in that the IOTA reference must be printed on the original card, i.e. writing it on afterwards is not acceptable, the information must be provided by the DX station. Seehttps://www.iota-world.org/islands-on-the-air/qsl-card-requirements.html . I would be surprised if LoTW matches would be acceptable without an IOTA reference from the DX station.

+ DXLab's realtime award tracking for IOTA requires each QSO to specify an IOTA tag. The question is whether IOTA will require your QSO partner to have specified an IOTA tag in the "Station Location" used to submit your QSO.