[digitalradio] Re: ALE400 and CCW w/LotW and eQSL?
I checked out the configuration file that you suggest but the release date on it was 2008 and it doesn't have Contestia in it. It's the same group of ADIF modes that I had previously so I must have had the up to date file already. Anyway I suggested to ARRL that they consider updating the file to reflect the new modes but they haven't responded to my email. Paul VE9NC --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave wrote: > > Have you downloaded the configuration update for TQSL that supports a wide > variety of extra modes. I'm not sure that ALE400 is included, but I know > CONTESTIA is > > Log into your account on the LoTW website, go to "Your Account", then "Your > Certificates"...click on the "Download current TQSL Configuration file" to > you computer. Then, open TQSL Cert and import that new certificate. It adds > support for a LOT of data modes. > > Dave > K3DCW >
Re: [digitalradio] Re: ALE400 and CCW w/LotW and eQSL?
Have you downloaded the configuration update for TQSL that supports a wide variety of extra modes. I'm not sure that ALE400 is included, but I know CONTESTIA is Log into your account on the LoTW website, go to "Your Account", then "Your Certificates"...click on the "Download current TQSL Configuration file" to you computer. Then, open TQSL Cert and import that new certificate. It adds support for a LOT of data modes. Dave K3DCW On May 31, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Paul wrote: > Hi Jeremy: > > I asked LOTW help the exact question the other day and this is their response: > > "Open TQSL > Select FILE - PREFERENCES - ADIF MODES > Click the ADD button on right. > In the mode window enter the mode as it is expressed in your logging > program. > Use the drop down menu to select the mode that you want it to represent. > [DATA] > Click OK - Click OK > Now you can sign the log and upload the TQ8 file." > > However, when I looked at the answer, I began to have my doubts that it would > work. Contestia, ROS, Thor, to name three, aren't recognized by LOTW as > modes. Thor isn't recognised as an accepted ADIF mode. If we linked Contestia > to a DATA mode, by doing the above we'd be credited with a DATA contact but > only if both stations made this change. That's not going to happen in the > real world unless you know the individuals and you both make the same change. > Or am I missing something? > > There is problems right now because modes are being created faster than ADIF > is adding them, or the logging programs are updating them. LOTW doesn't > recognise a lot of modes that have been out for some time. In my case I don't > really care if I get an award credit for the QSO, all I want is a QSL > confirmation. Even E-QSL has a wider range of accepted modes. So not sure > what to do or say. Anyway I am not an expert on logging, ADIF or LOTW. So > maybe I am missing something in the above method. I am a digital operator and > it's frustrating when either the logging program or LOTW won't accept a mode > that you're using. (ROS won't be accepted by Logger32 for instance.) And it > happens every day here. So I have to try and manually make notes of the real > modes I used and at some point write out QSL cards by hand because that's the > only way for some modes. > > I log ALE400 and ALE141a as Ale contacts right now. I also log CCW as CW with > a note in my log. Ale I think is accepted by LOTW. (I think.)I am not sure > about CCW but I don't think it's a "valid" ADIF mode. > > Anyway I am kind of shooting blind here so anyone that has solutions to these > issues would be greatly appreciated. > > Paul > VE9NC > > BTW Jeremy... tnx for the ccw-fsk and Ale400 modes. > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I just made my first ALE400 and CCW QSO today but when I went to sync > > with both LotW and eQSL I received errors about unknown modes. I logged > > them as ALE400 and CCW. > > > > Any thoughts on how to properly log and report these QSOs? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeremy > > KB8LFA > > > > Dave Real radio bounces off the sky --
[digitalradio] Re: ALE400 and CCW w/LotW and eQSL?
Hi Jeremy: I asked LOTW help the exact question the other day and this is their response: "Open TQSL Select FILE - PREFERENCES - ADIF MODES Click the ADD button on right. In the mode window enter the mode as it is expressed in your logging program. Use the drop down menu to select the mode that you want it to represent. [DATA] Click OK - Click OK Now you can sign the log and upload the TQ8 file." However, when I looked at the answer, I began to have my doubts that it would work. Contestia, ROS, Thor, to name three, aren't recognized by LOTW as modes. Thor isn't recognised as an accepted ADIF mode. If we linked Contestia to a DATA mode, by doing the above we'd be credited with a DATA contact but only if both stations made this change. That's not going to happen in the real world unless you know the individuals and you both make the same change. Or am I missing something? There is problems right now because modes are being created faster than ADIF is adding them, or the logging programs are updating them. LOTW doesn't recognise a lot of modes that have been out for some time. In my case I don't really care if I get an award credit for the QSO, all I want is a QSL confirmation. Even E-QSL has a wider range of accepted modes. So not sure what to do or say. Anyway I am not an expert on logging, ADIF or LOTW. So maybe I am missing something in the above method. I am a digital operator and it's frustrating when either the logging program or LOTW won't accept a mode that you're using. (ROS won't be accepted by Logger32 for instance.) And it happens every day here. So I have to try and manually make notes of the real modes I used and at some point write out QSL cards by hand because that's the only way for some modes. I log ALE400 and ALE141a as Ale contacts right now. I also log CCW as CW with a note in my log. Ale I think is accepted by LOTW. (I think.)I am not sure about CCW but I don't think it's a "valid" ADIF mode. Anyway I am kind of shooting blind here so anyone that has solutions to these issues would be greatly appreciated. Paul VE9NC BTW Jeremy... tnx for the ccw-fsk and Ale400 modes. --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: > > Hello, > > I just made my first ALE400 and CCW QSO today but when I went to sync > with both LotW and eQSL I received errors about unknown modes. I logged > them as ALE400 and CCW. > > Any thoughts on how to properly log and report these QSOs? > > Thanks, > > Jeremy > KB8LFA >
