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

[Dick Kriss, AA5VU]

This note is  "The End" to the shaggy-dog story.  Wayne Mills, N7NG/1
responded this morning with a suggestion that I use the number "8" as the
Field number in the tqsl.app Cabrillo Preference file and it worked perfect.

I was able to apply my digital signature to the UKDX-RTTY.log file with the
resulting  .ts8 suffix (when the file is signed, it has the .ts8 suffix).  I
emailed the file as an attachment to LoTW and a few minutes later I received
the "Automated response to your LOTW request" that all was okay.

Thank for reading this mess.  End of Shaggy-dog story.  It has been a
learning experience for me.

73, Dick AA5VU


On 1/27/06 6:27 AM, "Dick Kriss, AA5VU" <aa5vu at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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