[Ham-Mac] ARRL's LoTW tqsl version

Dick Kriss aa5vu at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 14 11:11:05 EST 2007


I often quote an old saying "The enemy of good is better"

I was informed by another Mac user of a newer version of tqsl on the LoTW
web page so I downloaded and installed it with no problems. The newer
version of tqsl v1.11-2 for OSX 10.4 that says it was created in 2006 would
not open a .log or .adi file and therefore could not sign anything. I
noticed the problem when I tried to sign my CQ-WPX-RTTY contest log file.

Happiness is having a backup drive. I booted from the backup drive and the
older version 1.11 created in March 2005 (not 2006) worked perfect.  Since
it worked, I zipped the whole folder and moved the zipped file to the
primary hard drive. I booted from the primary drive, trashed everything
associated with the 2006 version and unzipped the 2005 version. The 2005
version 1.11 of tqsl is good. It opens and signs documents.

I may not try another upgrade of tqsl until the old one refuses to work. The
ENEMY of GOOD is BETTER!

My guess is the newer tqsl version 11.1-2 was created for Intel powered Macs
and I am still using a G4 with OSX 10.4.8.  This may be one universal binary
that is not really universal.

73, Dick AA5VU




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