[Ham-Mac] ARRL's LoTW tqsl version

[Bob Nielsen]

Tqsl has been a pain for me too.  I originally had a similar problem  
(it would segfault when I tried to sign a file) and saw a note on  
this list of an "unofficial" version which Steve Palm had built so I  
tried that and it worked.  I messed up something on my hard drive  
later and had to reformat it (don't ask).  Neither version worked for  
me at that point.  This was probably in early 2006.  I tried building  
it from source but ran into some problems of which I forget the  
details.  Several folks on the tqsl mailing list apparently had  
similar problems.

Several months ago I tried again installing the version on the ARRL  
site and it worked fine!  It is version 11-1.unofficial.745 and the  
files are dated April 27, 2006 (this was before 11-2 was on the  
site).  I am running it on a 1.42 GHz G4 Mini with 10.4.8.

73 - Bob, N7XY

On Feb 14, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> 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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