This is more of a question of interaction with CQRlog, but I think still valid. I am moving into the ranks of remote users, so I often switch profiles in CQRlog, depending on which radio I am using. I do use both at the same time because they are separated by 800 km.
/usr/bin/tqsl -d -l "Woodbury" %f -x
/usr/bin/tqsl -d -l "Louisburg" %f -x
Typically I use these commands to upload to LOTW. What would happen if I merely used
/usr/bin/tqsl -d -l "" %f -x
instead? Would TQSL read the locator and state from the ADIF file I created, or would I taint the log? Or would tqsl complain about having no location? Has anyone else tried this?
73
Charles - NK8O
Hi Charles!
This is more Tqsl question but I am quite sure using empty string causes Tqsl error.
The line on Cqrlog's LoTW export window is direct copy of command console line used with signed adif file first created by Cqrlog export.
The string "Woodbury", "Louisburg" etc... refers to qth profile you have created to Tqsl. That is what Tqsl is interesed in.
/usr/bin/tqsl -d -l "Pori" %f -x refers to my Tqsl location name
Being originally a Windoze world application Tqsl does not seem to care about up or low case letters. "Pori" and "pori" are same, unlike in Linux world.
If you look at ~/.config/cqrlog/lotw folder and open one of the ".adi" files you see that there are no export tags of your location. Just plain qso data.
".tq8" files are the same, just signed with your LoTW certificate.
There is nothing from where Tqsl could see what QTH you have used when making qso.
So unfortunately you have to separate your loTW export qsos by your profile and then sign them separately and use different station location name for each.
That is what I think. But I do not use profiles, I use separate logs that is making this easy.
At this same time I have to warn all about switching logs while Cqrlog is running. You can do so, but it can lead to problems.
The original design of Cqrlog does not support log switching on fly properly, even it can be done.
The safest way is to close down and start again with different log.
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Saku
OH1KH
You wrote : What would happen if I merely used
/usr/bin/tqsl -d -l "" %f -x
The TQSL man page says that if the station location doesn't exist, tqsl will just exit.
What you need to do is to remove the whole of the -l option from the command line, then TQSL will open a window to allow you to select the location.
73 Colin