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<DIV class=itemTitle>+ <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">LoTW</I>: ARRL
Announces New Version of LoTW Software</DIV>
<P>After much testing, the ARRL will release a new version of Trusted QSL, the
open-source development project responsible for developing and maintaining the
three Logbook of the World (<A
href="http://www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world">LoTW</A>) client-side
applications: TQSL, TQSLCert and the TrustedQSL library. After six weeks of
public beta testing, version 1.14 is ready for official release and will be
available for download from the ARRL website beginning Monday, May 20.
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<P>In December 2012, Dave Bernstein, AA6YQ, and Rick Murphy, K1MU, <A
href="http://www.arrl.org/news/logbook-of-the-world-web-page-now-features-daily-and-hourly-status-updates">recruited
a group of volunteer software developers</A> to contribute to this project.
After considering input from ARRL management and the ARRL's LoTW user support
group in the League's Membership and Volunteer Services Department, as well as
the ARRL-LoTW e-mail discussion group on Yahoo! Groups, the volunteer
development group put forward a set of priorities that would be addressed by a
sequence of incremental software releases.
<P>A small group of testers began exercising version 1.14 in March 2013; this
testing exposed several defects, all of which have been corrected. Testing then
progressed to an open beta test period that allowed interested parties to
download, install and try out this newest version of Trusted QSL.
<P>The initial release in this sequence -- version 1.14 -- includes these new
features:
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<LI><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN Roman?? New Times></SPAN></SPAN>Log
files can be signed and uploaded over the internet to LoTW in one operation.
<LI><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN Roman?? New
Times></SPAN></SPAN>Errors in Station Locations are reported (for example,
incorrect CQ and ITU zones).
<LI><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN Roman?? New Times></SPAN></SPAN>QSOs
that need not be re-submitted ("duplicates") are brought to the user's
attention.
<LI><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN Roman?? New Times></SPAN></SPAN>Error
reporting has been improved.
<LI><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN Roman?? New
Times></SPAN></SPAN>Installation on <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Windows</I> has been improved.
<LI><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN Roman?? New Times></SPAN></SPAN>Users
are notified when a new version becomes available.
<LI><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN Roman?? New
Times></SPAN></SPAN>Documentation has been improved.</LI></UL>
<P>Upgrading to version 1.14 is not mandatory, but is encouraged. Users who
choose not to upgrade will not be able to access the new features in version
1.14, but they will still be able to upload logs into the LoTW system.<A
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