[RTTY] Issues with LOTW-RTTY Contest

[Dick Kriss]

> From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Issues  with LOTW-RTTY Contest
> To: "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
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> Hi Dick
> 
> After the Sprint and Makrothen RTTY tests this weekend, I exported to
> cabrillo, and when I tried to upload my cabrillo logs and got the same
> message.  I exported to ADIF instead of cabrillo and it uploaded those files
> fine.  73
> Tom W7WHY
> 

Hi Tom,

The first pass error was mine because I followed the contest rules at
<http://74.194.51.88:7777/> and used "LOTW-RTTY" as the contest name in
my Cabrillo file.  I assumed (wrong) that ³LOTW-RTTY² had been added to the
list of supported Contest-ID's in the ADIF specification used by LoTW.  The
name 
has NOT been added and this is why the ARRL tqsl application would not sign
our 
Cabrillo logs.

Once I realized the contest sponsor was just looking for valid LoTW QSOs, it
was 
easy to use the tsql Preference Cabrillo options to have tqsl to sign my
.log Cabrillo 
file.  The signed .tq8 log was then uploaded and accepted by the LoTW robot
with 
103 QSO¹s and49 matches.  I feel the success rate will increase as
additional logs 
are submitted.

As Jim AD1C has pointed out it is always better to upload an ADIF file, if
possible. 
I hope to have that capability in the future.


73 Dick AA5VU