Hi Fred,
Congrats on your first SOTA activation and welcome to the group! You know, this can be addictive!
To your questions (which are not at all off-topic):
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There is no way to make corrections in the database. The only way is to delete the activation and up-load the log again. Therefore most activators use a program to create a log file in csv format that they up-load to the SOTA db. I am using FLE, but there are other options. With such a program you can make corrections in your offline log, delete the one in the SOTA db and upload again. It only takes a few mouse clicks. In lack of a locally stored file the simplest work around would be to download the existing log, change it in e.g. excel and up-load it again.
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Yes, the credits in all cases are independent of the other station logging the contact. I think that the team issuing awards does spot checks and might raise questions if there are too many unmatched QSOs but in general it is not required to have the other station up-load a log.
Hope to work you soon!
73 Heinz
EDIT: This has been discussed earlier: Fixing logged errors About half-way down the thread is a link to FLE- Fast Log Entry by DF3CB