[LOGic] Fwd: LoTW - The ARRL Letter for May 16, 2013

[Jack]

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>From: <mailto:memberlist at www.arrl.org>memberlist at www.arrl.org
>Sent: 5/16/2013 2:00:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
>Subj: The ARRL Letter for May 16, 2013
>
>+ LoTW: ARRL Announces New Version of LoTW Software
>
>After much testing, the ARRL will release a new version of Trusted 
>QSL, the open-source development project responsible for developing 
>and maintaining the three Logbook of the World 
>(<http://www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world>LoTW) client-side 
>applications: TQSL, TQSLCert and the TrustedQSL library. After six 
>weeks of public beta testing, version 1.14 is ready for official 
>release and will be available for download from the ARRL website 
>beginning Monday, May 20.
>[]
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>
>In December 2012, Dave Bernstein, AA6YQ, and Rick Murphy, K1MU, 
><http://www.arrl.org/news/logbook-of-the-world-web-page-now-features-daily-and-hourly-status-updates>recruited 
>a group of volunteer software developers to contribute to this 
>project. After considering input from ARRL management and the ARRL's 
>LoTW user support group in the League's Membership and Volunteer 
>Services Department, as well as the ARRL-LoTW e-mail discussion 
>group on Yahoo! Groups, the volunteer development group put forward 
>a set of priorities that would be addressed by a sequence of 
>incremental software releases.
>
>A small group of testers began exercising version 1.14 in March 
>2013; this testing exposed several defects, all of which have been 
>corrected. Testing then progressed to an open beta test period that 
>allowed interested parties to download, install and try out this 
>newest version of Trusted QSL.
>
>The initial release in this sequence -- version 1.14 -- includes 
>these new features:
>    * Log files can be signed and uploaded over the internet to LoTW 
> in one operation.
>    * Errors in Station Locations are reported (for example, 
> incorrect CQ and ITU zones).
>    * QSOs that need not be re-submitted ("duplicates") are brought 
> to the user's attention.
>    * Error reporting has been improved.
>    * Installation on Windows has been improved.
>    * Users are notified when a new version becomes available.
>    * Documentation has been improved.
>
>Upgrading to version 1.14 is not mandatory, but is encouraged. Users 
>who choose not to upgrade will not be able to access the new 
>features in version 1.14, but they will still be able to upload logs 
>into the LoTW system.


Jack Hartley
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