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

[Dick Kriss, AA5VU]

I am nearing the end of the long shaggy-dog story on getting the Mac version
of the ARRL tqsl application to digitally sign my UK-DX-RTTY contest
Cabrillo.log file so it can be uploaded to the Logbook of the World (LoTW).

On 26-Jan, I sent a help request to the ARRL LoTW desk and Wayne Mills,
N7NG/1, responded.  The problem was with the Contest name used in my file.
The UK-DX-RTTY contest name did not match the list of supported contests and
this was why the Mac tqsl application would not let me sign the file.  I
tried changing the contest name to one on the list but could not find a
supported template on the web page (see below) that matched the format of
the UK-DX Cabrillo file.

I then tried my ARRL RTTY Round Up .log file and it worked perfect.  If you
worked me in RU, the QSO should be on LoTW.

Even though the UK contest is not on the list supported by tqsl, the users
should be able to upload the file if they define the contest in the tqsl
Cabrillo Preference file.  LoTW does not really care about the contest but
is needs to know how to read the file.  I added the UKDX contest name to the
Preference file and tqsl then barfed on the field number used for the CALL.
I plan to mess with it before the BARTG Sprint contest this weekend. FYI,
the contest name BARTG-RTTY is used for the BARTG Sprint Cabrillo .log and
it is on the list.

Mucho Thanks to Wayne Mills, N7NG/1, and Bill Coleman, AA4LR, who have been
helping me on this issue.   There is nothing wrong with the Mac version of
tqsl.  The UK-DX-RTTY contest is not on the list of supported contests.

73, Dick AA5VU
 
On 1/26/06 7:39 PM, "Mills, Wayne  N7NG" <N7NG at arrl.org> wrote:

> OH! I didn't realize you had an error message. For a Cabrillo file to be
> accepted by Logbook, the contest name MUST match one of those in the following
> list (exactly as shown). This list and other information can be seen at:
> http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/
>  
> CONTEST: contest-name
> The contest-name must be one of the following: AP-SPRINT, ARRL-10, ARRL-160,
> ARRL-DX-CW, ARRL-DX-SSB, ARRL-SS-CW, ARRL-SS-SSB, ARRL-UHF-AUG, ARRL-VHF-JAN,
> ARRL-VHF-JUN, ARRL-VHF-SEP, ARRL-RTTY, BARTG-RTTY, CQ-160-CW, CQ-160-SSB
> CQ-WPX-CW, CQ-WPX-RTTY, CQ-WPX-SSB, CQ-VHF, CQ-WW-CW, CQ-WW-RTTY, CQ-WW-SSB,
> DARC-WAEDC-CW, DARC-WAEDC-RTTY, DARC-WAEDC-SSB, DL-DX-RTTY, IARU-HF, JIDX-CW,
> JIDX-SSB, NAQP-CW, NAQP-RTTY, NAQP-SSB, NA-SPRINT-CW, NA-SPRINT-SSB, NEQP,
> OCEANIA-DX-CW, OCEANIA-DX-SSB, RSGB-IOTA, SAC-CW, SAC-SSB, SARTG-WW-RTTY,
> STEW-PERRY or TARA-RTTY.
> 
> Because there are various log configurations in other contests, the log reader
> (LoTW in this case) must know what format or template you are using. This is
> determined by the value in the "Contest Name" field. Note that the "UK"
> contest is not listed. Therefore, Logbook won't recognize it.
> 
> 73,  Wayne, N7NG/1