[Ham-Mac] Contents of Ham-Mac digest, Vol 112, Issue 1 - can FLDIGI upload QSOs directly to LoTW?

[Don Agro]

Dave,

On 2013-05-09, at 5:32 PM, "Dave Wright" <hfradiopro at gmail.com> wrote:

> with MLDX being the only major Mac logbook program that doesn't play well with Fldigi and LoTW. 

That is quite a load of misinformation for one email, but with your nasty comments on eHam it comes as no surprise.

Please check your facts before you libel our product or deal with the consequences.


We make it very easy for anyone to interface with MacLoggerDX.

MacLoggerDX has been a standard Apple scriptable app since Version 5.0 was released.

MacLoggerDX supports an open and documented AppleScript interface for logging which cocoaModem integrates with seamlessly and has done so for some years now.

AppleScript is the standard for Mac interprocess communication and it is not surprising that fldigi does not yet provide this since it is a ported application rather than a native Mac application but hopefully they will in the future.

SInce the interface is open and documented there is absolutely nothing to stop them from doing so.

This is the entire script that cocoaModem uses to lookup and log a QSO...

tell application "cocoaModem 2.0"
	set cocoaModemCall to get qsoCall
end tell

tell application "MacLoggerDX"
	lookup cocoaModemCall
	delay (1)
	log cocoaModemCall
end tell


How do I upload my LoTW, ClubLog and eQSL QSOs?

MacLoggerDX supports LoTW and eQSL with Ham standard ADIF files. QSO's can be exported by ADIF, signed (using the ARRL supplied applications) and uploaded to LoTW. MacLoggerDX also uses LoTW and eQSL ADIF confirmation files to update the QSL received status of your logged QSOs (See the Confirm QSOs with ADIF File... Menu command under the Log Menu). There is also a user script	written	by Kevin Williams (WM4J) in the MacLoggerDX Yahoo Group File section which automates the upload and confirmation processes:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macloggerdx/message/4872

The new version is in the "Files" section - "DQSLManager_v0.06.2.zip" and the setup instructions are in the readme file included in the zip archive.




73 de VE3VRW Don Agro