[Ham-Mac] Help Uploading a Contest Cabrillo format to LoTW

[Bill Coleman]

On Jan 25, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> I tried and tqsl barfed on the the first line of my file so I  
> figured it did
> not like the headers.  It crapped out with a error note that it did  
> not like
> one of the header saying "CONTEST" and quit. I then opened file  
> with BBEdit
> and deleted the administrative headers and END OF FILE thing at the  
> bottom
> so the file only contained the QSO information

Don't do that.

The problem is that TQSL doesn't understand the contest, so it  
doesn't know where to find the callsign of the station you worked.

You can teach TQSL about other contests pretty easily.

In the Preferences window, go to the Cabrillo specs tab. You can add  
the contest type by copying the value from the CONTEST: tag.

The Field number is a little tricky to figure out. This is the field  
that contains the worked callsign. Your callsign is field number 5 in  
Cabrillo. If there are two pieces of exchange information, then the  
worked callsign will be field 8, three pieces will be field 9, and so  
on. You can count the fields as the values surrounded by blanks after  
the QSO: tag.

Once you add the contest to the Preferences, you should be able to  
sign any logs for that contest.


Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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