Dave,
One of the confirmation matching criteria for LOTW is that the modes must
be an exact match or match a mode group ( ex. DATA = FT4, FT8, Q65, etc)
https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/key-concepts#confirmation
Within TQSL, you can remap ADIF modes to something TQSL recognizes. You can
also remap Cabrillo modes to something that is recognized.
File Menu --> Display or Modify Preferences Then select ADIF Modes or
Cabrillo Specs Tabs.
I don't know where a printed document lives that specifies what mode and
propagation types TQSL/LOTW recognizes . However you can go into TQSL
File Menu --> Create a new ADIF file and look in the dropdown boxes for
mode and propagation mode to see what is available and accepted
Scott AA5AM
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 3:19 PM David Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net> wrote:
> So I sent in my 222 & Up log to LOTW. It was exported from N1MM as an
> adif file. I checked and got an immediate match with VA3IKE for his 49th
> grid on 432. Ike was very keen to get that contact logged in LOTW. It
> was a new state on 432 as well as grid #49. The MODE I saw on LOTW was
> SSB. We actually used Q65B-30 but I changed it to SSB. I am not sure
> what mode VA3IKE used. I also got a note from K1TEO, who claims to have
> also sent his log in. He had a match for only one contact with me on
> SSB. He had an FT8 contact with me on 432 and I called it SSB. Jeff had
> RY and there was no match. Strangely, I checked for K1TEO just now and
> came up with NO MATCH!! What a mess. Jeff gets a match for our 222
> contact but I do not.
>
> I wish I had paid attention to this stuff before. I just assumed that
> everything was fine with the world.
>
> I will pursue this further.
>
> Dave K1WHS
>
> On 8/7/2023 3:24 PM, Bob Bownes wrote:
> > Would it make sense to ask the ARRL to establish a 'standard' for this
> > sort of thing as we do for internet standards (IETF) or telecom (ITU),
> > even if it is a 'compliance is not mandatory' kind of thing?
> > Easy to see an extension to digital modes, codecs, etc.
> >
> > Bob, who has participated/written too many standards in his day
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 2:29 PM David Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have had all sorts of problems with logging software and contest
> > entry
> > software that processes logs. Maybe I missed it, but It is hard
> > to find
> > documentation that gets down and dirty to tell us what responses are
> > allowed in each block where data is entered. In this past contest I
> > used N1MM to log for the 222 and Up contest, and it allows certain
> > entries for MODE. My regular logging program is VQ-Log and it has
> > various modes allowed. When you make an ADIF file to submit to
> > the ARRL
> > LOTW, those choices may be incompatibile. The ADIF format allows
> only
> >
> > SSB
> > CW
> > RTTY
> > TOR=AMTOR
> > PKT
> > AM
> > FM
> > SSTV
> > ATV
> > PAC=PACTOR
> > CLO=CLOVER
> >
> > N1MM recognizes CW, USB, LSB, SSB, AM, FM,SSTV, RTTY, PSK31, PSK63,
> > PSK125, PSK250, DIGITAL, FT8 and FT4.
> >
> > Note that many of the modes allowed by N1MM are not listed in the
> > ADIF
> > specification. This means that any program with the wrong mode
> > might be
> > bounced out of the LOTW log and you are out of luck. The contact is
> > discarded.
> >
> > If you supply a Cabrillo file to the ARRL for your contest
> > submission,
> > the modes that are allowed are only
> >
> > CW
> > PH
> > FM
> > RY
> > DG
> >
> > It gets better. My daily logging software VQ-Log and is primarily
> > aimed
> > at VHF ops. There is a field for propagation type. If you read enough
> > you might find a comment telling you that the propagation mode is not
> > required in ADIF, but I found out the hard way that only certain
> > prop
> > modes are accepted by the ARRL adif files. TR means tropo but TRS in
> > VQ-LOg indicates tropo scatter which is a primary means that we
> > VHFers
> > communicate with. I hand copied almost all of my old paper logs and
> > entered the prop mode as TRS and only later found out that all of
> > those
> > submitted files went into the bit bucket in Newington. So I have
> > to go
> > back and modify all my entries from TRS to TR to make things work.
> > Really, my life is too short to have to deal with these glaring
> > software
> > compatability issues.
> >
> > Somewhere, I have an email that delineates all of the prop modes
> > recognized by ARRL LOTW and the adif input file. I wish it had been
> > published somewhere.
> >
> > So I submitted my 222 & Up file to LOTW. Please let me know if you do
> > not get a match. I ended up calling everything either CW or SSB.
> > There
> > was no real good choice for FT8 or MSK144, or Q65. You would think
> > that
> > maybe DIGI might be a good name for all of these VHF modes, but you
> > would be mistaken. Your choices are SSB or maybe RTTY. There must be
> > some patches between software to fix some of this, but it sure has
> > gotten me in trouble very often.
> >
> > grumble grumble!
> >
> > Dave K1WHS
> >
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