[CQ-Contest] TQSL Updates Makes Uploading Rover Logs Easier

[Jim Brown]

This is from today's ARRL Letter

73, Jim K9YC

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New TQSL Version 2.5.2 Provides Better LoTW Rover Support, Other 
Improvements

The latest version of TrustedQSL (TQSL), version 2.5.2, offers improved 
Logbook of The World (LoTW) support for operations from several 
locations, as well as the ability to detect uploads that contain 
incorrect location data. The primary new feature in TQSL 2.5.2 allows 
logging programs, in conjunction with TQSL, to avoid incorrect contact 
uploads, while adding mechanisms to allow easy uploading of logs for 
roving stations. LoTW had required rovers to identify each location used 
as a separate location in TQSL. The new version of TQSL allows these 
operations to be handled much more smoothly by using information from 
the station's logging program.

When a log is signed by TQSL, the station details -- call sign, DXCC 
entity, grid square, and other location details provided by the selected 
station location (and call sign certificate) -- are compared with the 
details in the log. If the US state and station location in a log do not 
agree, TQSL 2.5.2 will reject the contact, detecting errors in instances 
when an incorrect station location has been chosen. This feature will 
necessitate changes in many logging programs, because it requires that 
the log provide station details previously not used by TQSL. Once a 
logging program supplies these (MY_STATE, MY_DXCC, MY_CQ_ZONE, etc.), 
then TQSL will validate them against the log. Currently, Cabrillo logs 
use the CALLSIGN field to verify that the contacts are for the correct 
call sign.

Optionally, a station performing roaming operations (e.g., from multiple 
grid squares) can choose to have TQSL assume that the log is correct. 
When call sign or home station are provided with the log, TQSL will 
automatically update the details on the upload. Select "Override Station 
Location with QTH Details from your Log" on the "Log Handling" 
preference page to enable this feature.

This release also includes an update to the most recent TQSL 
configuration file. -- Thanks to Rick Murphy, K1MU