New PJ Entities and LoTW

The ARRL’s LoTW (Logbook of The World) home page at https://p1k.arrl.org/lotwuser/default has some new info on LoTW and the new PJ entities that became active in October. I’m not sure about others but I rarely view that page and instead go direct to other links within the LoTW site so many folks like myself  might miss this info posted there:

Dec 14, 2010: New PJ Entities and LoTW — We have received some questions about when the new PJ entities will appear in LoTW and the associated DXCC lists.

Before we can change any of the DXCC records in the electronic systems, we have to finish processing all the DXCC applications from 2010.  We need to do this to produce data for the Annual Lists that appear in the DXCC Yearbook, and for the Honor Roll listing in QST.

The DXpeditioners have asked about when they can obtain certificates for the new entities. Most of the PJ operators have wanted to place their logs into LoTW, but we are waiting until we can manage the process from the DXCC side. It won’t be much longer though —  likely sometime in January.

When we make the deletions and add the new entities, most DXers will “lose” up to 20 entities from their totals in the DXCC Challenge. Those band entities will be shown in the “total” DXCC number (which includes deleted entities) on the Awards chart.  Obviously, as DXers apply their new entities to DXCC those numbers will return.

Thanks for the patience.