diff --git a/changelog.json b/changelog.json
index 649662f..3b57b6f 100644
--- a/changelog.json
+++ b/changelog.json
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
       "Confirmations: a HamQTH row — sent only, defaulting to R (to upload), since HamQTH publishes no confirmations to receive. Setting such a default no longer disables the auto-upload it was meant to arm (it also affected HAMLOG.online).",
       "New DXpeditions tab (Tools): the announced operations from NG3K’s ADXO next to the DX-World news feed. Every announcement is judged against YOUR log and carries one badge — NEW DXCC, NEW BAND, NEW SLOT… — with an “only what I need” filter, and one click adds its callsigns to the watchlist. The news headlines carry the same Watch button, over the callsigns mined out of their titles.",
       "Watchlist: adding or removing a callsign now raises the same kind of notification as a new version, instead of a message inside the watchlist page — a call can be added from the cluster or the DXpeditions tab, where that message was never seen.",
-      "QSO editor, QSL Info: a HamQTH channel and its row in the status table — sent only, the received column showing a dash since the site publishes no confirmations."
+      "QSO editor, QSL Info: a HamQTH channel and its row in the status table — sent only, the received column showing a dash since the site publishes no confirmations.",
+      "QSO editor, QSL Info: the confirmation channels are listed paper QSL and LoTW first — the two that carry an ARRL award — then alphabetically, in both the picker and the status table."
     ],
     "fr": [
       "Changer de base de réglages n’affiche plus « OpsLog is already running » : la relance automatique attend désormais que l’instance qui se ferme libère son verrou au lieu de la prendre de vitesse.",
@@ -22,7 +23,8 @@
       "Confirmations : une ligne HamQTH — envoi seulement, à R (à envoyer) par défaut, HamQTH ne publiant aucune confirmation à recevoir. Définir un tel défaut ne désactive plus l’upload automatique qu’il était censé armer (cela touchait aussi HAMLOG.online).",
       "Nouvel onglet DXpéditions (Outils) : les opérations annoncées par l’ADXO de NG3K à côté du fil d’actualités DX-World. Chaque annonce est jugée sur VOTRE log et porte un badge — NOUVEAU DXCC, NOUVELLE BANDE, NOUVEAU SLOT… — avec un filtre « seulement ce qu’il me manque », et un clic ajoute ses indicatifs à la watchlist. Les actualités portent le même bouton Surveiller, sur les indicatifs extraits de leurs titres.",
       "Watchlist : ajouter ou retirer un indicatif déclenche désormais une notification du même type que celle des nouvelles versions, au lieu d’un message dans la page watchlist — un indicatif peut être ajouté depuis le cluster ou l’onglet DXpéditions, où ce message n’était jamais vu.",
-      "Éditeur de QSO, onglet QSL : un canal HamQTH et sa ligne dans le tableau des statuts — envoi seulement, la colonne reçu affichant un tiret puisque le site ne publie aucune confirmation."
+      "Éditeur de QSO, onglet QSL : un canal HamQTH et sa ligne dans le tableau des statuts — envoi seulement, la colonne reçu affichant un tiret puisque le site ne publie aucune confirmation.",
+      "Éditeur de QSO, onglet QSL : les canaux de confirmation sont classés QSL papier puis LoTW — les deux qui comptent pour un diplôme ARRL — puis par ordre alphabétique, dans le sélecteur comme dans le tableau."
     ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/QSOEditModal.tsx b/frontend/src/components/QSOEditModal.tsx
index 8a617b0..b211ebe 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/QSOEditModal.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/QSOEditModal.tsx
@@ -80,6 +80,19 @@ const CONF_LABEL_KEYS: Record<string, string> = {
   QSL: 'qedit.confQslPaper',
 };
 
+// Reading order for the channel list: the two that carry an ARRL award first —
+// paper QSL and LoTW — then everything else alphabetically, so a channel is
+// found by its name rather than by remembering the order it was added in.
+const CONF_FIRST: Record<string, number> = { QSL: 0, LOTW: 1 };
+function confOrder<T extends { key: string; label: string }>(rows: T[]): T[] {
+  return rows.slice().sort((a, b) => {
+    const ra = CONF_FIRST[a.key] ?? 2;
+    const rb = CONF_FIRST[b.key] ?? 2;
+    if (ra !== rb) return ra - rb;
+    return a.label.localeCompare(b.label);
+  });
+}
+
 // OpsLog's own card. Kept out of CONFIRMATIONS on purpose — that list maps QSO
 // columns and this channel is backed by ADIF extras — but it still belongs in
 // the channel picker and the status table alongside the rest.
@@ -756,15 +769,19 @@ export function QSOEditModal({ qso, onSave, onDelete, onClose, countries = [], b
                         <Select value={confSel} onValueChange={setConfSel}>
                           <SelectTrigger><SelectValue /></SelectTrigger>
                           <SelectContent>
-                            {CONFIRMATIONS.map((c) => <SelectItem key={c.key} value={c.key}>{CONF_LABEL_KEYS[c.key] ? t(CONF_LABEL_KEYS[c.key]) : c.label}</SelectItem>)}
-                            {/* Listed here but NOT in CONFIRMATIONS: that table maps
+                            {confOrder([
+                              ...CONFIRMATIONS.map((c) => ({ key: c.key, label: CONF_LABEL_KEYS[c.key] ? t(CONF_LABEL_KEYS[c.key]) : c.label })),
+                              { key: OPSLOG_CONF, label: t('qedit.confOpsLog') },
+                              { key: HAMLOG_CONF, label: 'HAMLOG.online' },
+                              { key: HAMQTH_CONF, label: 'HamQTH' },
+                            ]).map((c) => <SelectItem key={c.key} value={c.key}>{c.label}</SelectItem>)}
+                            {/* The three above that are NOT in CONFIRMATIONS — the
                                 QSO columns, and this channel lives in the ADIF
-                                extras. It gets its own editor below rather than the
-                                generic sent/received/date grid, which has no field
-                                to bind to. */}
-                            <SelectItem value={OPSLOG_CONF}>{t('qedit.confOpsLog')}</SelectItem>
-                            <SelectItem value={HAMLOG_CONF}>HAMLOG.online</SelectItem>
-                            <SelectItem value={HAMQTH_CONF}>HamQTH</SelectItem>
+                                OpsLog card, HAMLOG.online and HamQTH — are backed by
+                                ADIF extras rather than QSO columns, and each gets its
+                                own editor below instead of the generic
+                                sent/received/date grid, which has no field to bind
+                                to. */}
                           </SelectContent>
                         </Select>
                       </div>
@@ -865,37 +882,32 @@ export function QSOEditModal({ qso, onSave, onDelete, onClose, countries = [], b
                           </tr>
                         </thead>
                         <tbody>
-                          {CONFIRMATIONS.map((c) => (
+                          {/* The extras-backed channels (OpsLog card,
+                              HAMLOG.online, HamQTH) sit in the same ordered list
+                              as the column-backed ones: the reader is looking for
+                              a name, not for a storage detail. A dash in RECEIVED
+                              means the channel has nothing to receive — Club Log
+                              and HamQTH publish no confirmations — which is not
+                              the same statement as "N". */}
+                          {confOrder([
+                            ...CONFIRMATIONS.map((c) => ({
+                              key: c.key,
+                              label: CONF_LABEL_KEYS[c.key] ? t(CONF_LABEL_KEYS[c.key]) : c.label,
+                              sent: val(c.sent),
+                              rcvd: c.rcvd ? val(c.rcvd) : null,
+                            })),
+                            { key: OPSLOG_CONF, label: t('qedit.confOpsLog'), sent: opslogQslSent ? 'Y' : 'N', rcvd: qslReceived ? 'Y' : 'N' },
+                            { key: HAMLOG_CONF, label: 'HAMLOG.online', sent: exVal(HAMLOG_KEYS.sent), rcvd: exVal(HAMLOG_KEYS.rcvd) },
+                            { key: HAMQTH_CONF, label: 'HamQTH', sent: exVal(HAMQTH_KEYS.sent), rcvd: null },
+                          ]).map((c) => (
                             <tr key={c.key} className="text-xs">
-                              <td className="font-medium pr-3 py-0.5 whitespace-nowrap">{CONF_LABEL_KEYS[c.key] ? t(CONF_LABEL_KEYS[c.key]) : c.label}</td>
-                              <td className="w-24"><StatusCell value={val(c.sent)} /></td>
-                              <td className="w-24">{c.rcvd ? <StatusCell value={val(c.rcvd)} /> : <span className="block text-center text-[11px] text-muted-foreground">—</span>}</td>
+                              <td className="font-medium pr-3 py-0.5 whitespace-nowrap">{c.label}</td>
+                              <td className="w-24"><StatusCell value={c.sent} /></td>
+                              <td className="w-24">{c.rcvd === null
+                                ? <span className="block text-center text-[11px] text-muted-foreground">—</span>
+                                : <StatusCell value={c.rcvd} />}</td>
                             </tr>
                           ))}
-                          {/* OpsLog's own card, read from the ADIF extras rather
-                              than a QSO column — hence a hand-written row instead
-                              of a CONFIRMATIONS entry. "Sent" is stamped by OpsLog
-                              when the card actually goes out, so it stays
-                              read-only here: an operator ticking it by hand would
-                              be recording something that never happened. */}
-                          <tr className="text-xs">
-                            <td className="font-medium pr-3 py-0.5 whitespace-nowrap">{t('qedit.confOpsLog')}</td>
-                            <td className="w-24"><StatusCell value={opslogQslSent ? 'Y' : 'N'} /></td>
-                            <td className="w-24"><StatusCell value={qslReceived ? 'Y' : 'N'} /></td>
-                          </tr>
-                          {/* HAMLOG.online — extras again, same hand-written row. */}
-                          <tr className="text-xs">
-                            <td className="font-medium pr-3 py-0.5 whitespace-nowrap">HAMLOG.online</td>
-                            <td className="w-24"><StatusCell value={exVal(HAMLOG_KEYS.sent)} /></td>
-                            <td className="w-24"><StatusCell value={exVal(HAMLOG_KEYS.rcvd)} /></td>
-                          </tr>
-                          {/* HamQTH — sent only; the dash says there is nothing
-                              to receive, not that nothing was received. */}
-                          <tr className="text-xs">
-                            <td className="font-medium pr-3 py-0.5 whitespace-nowrap">HamQTH</td>
-                            <td className="w-24"><StatusCell value={exVal(HAMQTH_KEYS.sent)} /></td>
-                            <td className="w-24"><span className="block text-center text-[11px] text-muted-foreground">—</span></td>
-                          </tr>
                         </tbody>
                       </table>
                     </div>