I am trying to upload to LOTW a couple of contest logs I have where the QSOs were made in FT4 mode. What mode specifier do I put in the Cabrillo file so the TQSL program will take it? Putting FT4 didn't work. The RTTY Roundup file I have used DG from my logging program and it wouldn't take that either, and that wouldn't let LOTW know which digital mode it was anyways.
73 John AF5CC

I am trying to upload to LOTW a couple of contest logs I have where the QSOs were made in FT4 mode. What mode specifier do I put in the Cabrillo file so the TQSL program will take it? Putting FT4 didn't work. The RTTY Roundup file I have used DG from my logging program and it wouldn't take that either, and that wouldn't let LOTW know which digital mode it was anyways.

I am trying to upload to LOTW a couple of contest logs I have where the
QSOs were made in FT4 mode. What mode specifier do I put in the Cabrillo
file so the TQSL program will take it? Putting FT4 didn't work. The RTTY
Roundup file I have used DG from my logging program and it wouldn't take
that either, and that wouldn't let LOTW know which digital mode it was
anyways.

73 John AF5CC

Hi John,
You have got informative answers what an adif file needs contain in
order to upload FT4 QSOs to LoTW, but your orginal question was how
you can do it using Cabrillo files.
The answer to that is unfortunately *not* possible. The only modes
Cabrillo supports are:
mo is mode:
CW
PH
FM
RY
DG

The mode (mo) field is only two characters long in the Cabrillo specification.
Bottom ine is that the "DG" is correct, but not what you want. Only
possibility is to use an adif file. The WSJTX_log.adi should be ok for
that purpose as LoTW understands it.

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 09:02 AM, Reino Talarmo wrote:

Hi John,
You have got informative answers what an adif file needs contain in

order to

upload FT4 QSOs to LoTW, but your orginal question was how you can do it

using

Cabrillo files.
The answer to that is unfortunately *not* possible. The only modes

Cabrillo

supports are:
mo is mode:
CW
PH
FM
RY
DG

The mode (mo) field is only two characters long in the Cabrillo

specification.

Bottom ine is that the "DG" is correct, but not what you want. Only
possibility is to use an adif file. The WSJTX_log.adi should be ok for

that

purpose as LoTW understands it.

As Reino has said, the only modes that Cabrillo recognises in the record
for each QSO are those listed in his posting above. However, in the first
part of the Cabrillo file you can include the following:

CATEGORY-MODE: FT4

This should ensure that a QSO tagged with the mode of 'DG' is explicitly
identified as FT4.

However, as others have already said it might be easier to upload the
contest log(s) to LoTW in ADIF because it/they should already contain the
correct mode and sub-mode fields of <Mode:4>MFSK<Submode:3>FT4. I've never
uploaded a Cabrillo file to LoTW because all the necessary information
already exists in the associated ADIF file.

--
Martin G0HDB

Thanks for all of the answers so far. It looks like I am going to have to
enter them manually into the TQSL program to get them in as FT4. I don't
have a program right now that generates an ADI file. My contest logging
program (Genlog by W3KM) only does Cabrillo files. I want them specified
as FT4 for the FT4 endorsements on WAS and maybe other awards.

73 John AF5CC

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 5:48 AM Martin G0HDB <marting0hdb@...>
wrote:

Hi, your logger is capable for extracting adif files see:
https://qsl.net/w3km/genfeats.htm 73

Hi, your logger is capable for extracting adif files see:
https://qsl.net/w3km/genfeats.htm 73