[Ham-Mac] Lesson Re-Learned about filenames

[Dick Kriss]

There are no new rules ­ just old rules some of us tend to forget and
revisit from time to time.  Over the past few days I have worked
PJ2/N2MF on number of bands and modes. I got into trouble when I
tried to export the QSO¹s from fldigi so they could be uploaded to LoTW.

I used the fldigi File/Export ADIF and when it asked for a filename, I
gave it PJ2/N2MF.adi and clicked on Save.  Fldigi saved the file;
however, when I went to folder it was not there. The next time I used
the fldigi default filename and it saved the file to the folder.  I then
changed the filename back to PJ2/N2MF.adi and the LoTW tqsl could
not read the file. I then started over using the filename PJ2-N2MF.adi
and it worked worked perfect in both fldigi and tqsl.

I the old Mac rule revisited is to avoid the use of the slash (/) character
in filenames.

73 Dick AA5VU