[SFDXA] ARRL Logbook of The World Harmonizes Designation of FST4 Protocol

[Bill]

    ARRL Logbook of The World Harmonizes Designation of FST4 Protocol

10/19/2020
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The Logbook of The World (LoTW) Committee worked with /WSJT-X/ developer 
Joe Taylor, K1JT, to harmonize the designation of FST4 among /WSJT-X/, 
the ADIF standard, and LoTW. At present, FST4 is only supported in a 
*recently released beta version* 
<http://www.arrl.org/news/wsjt-x-beta-release-introduces-digital-protocols-designed-for-lf-and-mf-bands> of 
/WSJT-X/. The committee’s action was to avoid the sort of confusion that 
cropped up among LoTW users logging contacts in FT4 when that protocol 
was first included in /WSJT-X/. In the case of FST4, the committee acted 
proactively to help users avoid difficulties and obtain the maximum 
number of contact matches. The ADIF standard has been updated to support 
FST4 as a sub-mode of MFSK, and configuration file CONFIG.xml for LoTW 
has been updated to version 11.13, accordingly, to support FST4. Users 
will be offered the update when they run TQSL.

Again, FST4 is only available in /WSJT-X/. An ADIF file emitted by 
/WSJT-X/ should properly identify FST4, so that contacts will upload 
smoothly into LoTW, /provided/the CONFIG file has been updated. /— 
Thanks to Greg Widin, K0GW/

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