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

[Tom Haddon]

Dick,

This indeed is a mess.  I recently completed the January VHF 
Sweepstakes contest, but I will not submit a log.  That is way too much 
work for dubious results.  The ARRL is just as bad as Microsoft...

73,
Tom K5VH

Note my new email:  k5vh at verizon.net

On Jan 27, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> 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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