Does Call Sign Change in Settings Impact Existing Logs

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I’m currently using my HA issued call sign and have an HV application pending for the last week; it is likely to change in the next 18 days or so… If it’s approved and I update my callsign in the WRL settings, will my existing contact logs be retroactively associated with the new callsign, or will they remain recorded under the cancelled HA with only new contacts using the vanity callsign?

Just trying to understand how WRL logging handles a callsign change.

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@K1DAW Hey Daniel,

When you update your callsign in your profile it will update it for your account. You’ll probably still need to go into the ‘default settings for new logbooks’ and update your callsign there as well as inside your logbook. It will not update your callsign for the QSO’s you have already logged in your account as those QSO’s were made under your previous callsign and the other party(parties) have that contact logged with your previous callsign and for records keeping and confirmations it needs to stay like that.

Here is a screen recording explaining this a bit further:

Thanks & 73
Brad K4AZE

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Excellent. Thank you for the explanation and recommendation (and for taking time to actually demonstrate it). Take care, -Daniel.

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