[Ham-Mac] ARRL's LoTW tqsl version

[Dick Kriss]

Bob N7XY,

I share your pain.  This has been a pain to solve.  I am not sure it is
really solved but I a version that is working.  It came from a
TrustedQSL-1.11-1.dmg file and installed a tqsl version 11.1  with a created
on date of March 25, 2005.  The About this app box says it is "TQSL
V11.1.ARRL.743"

It may be old but it works!  I am going to pass on the newer 11.1-2 version
as I have already wasted way too much time trying to get Humpty-Dumpty back
together again.


Dick AA5VU

On 2/14/07 11:22 AM, "Bob Nielsen" <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:

> 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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