[Dxbase] Cabrillo file signed and uploaded to the ARRL LoTW website - anyone doing this?

[Joseph Glockner]

To all:

Has anyone ever "signed" a Cabrillo formatted file for uploading to
the ARRL Lotw website - and truely uploaded that to the LoTW server?

Reason I ask is that if you were running a CONTEST program (like
N1MM or Writelog, etc) in a SSB/PHONE contest and you outputted a 
CABRILLO formatted file from that Contesting s/w program -- and you 
"signed" THAT Cabrillo file with TQSL and uploaded that *.tq8 file to
the ARRL LoTW website -- the MODE "will" be listed as PHONE on the
LoTW QSO record -- and, of course, you would ALSO do an ADIF Import into
DXbase of those contest QSOs using the Non-DXB Import utility..


THEN, when you get ready to download your LoTW QSOs that were confirmed 
on LoTW -- that MODE of PHONE will still be there --  BUT ---- when you 
do a Non-DXB Import into DXbase, you will generate a DUPE record/qso
since the MODE of PHONE is not a VALID ADIF formatted MODE.


We have found this happened to one DXbase user -- and, I have modified
the REPORT I made that checks for 160meter QSOs with USB as the mode --
to include a CHECK for the SubMode of PHONE. This new version of the
report is available straight from me - upon request.


The BIG question here simply is -- has anyone EVER uploaded a Cabrillo
file "signed" by TQSL - to the ARRL LoTW website ... If you have
ever done this - pse send me an email.



73 Joe wa6axe