[Dxbase] AutoLoTW Version 2.50 - fully automatic - is now available

Wed Jul 16 22:38:53 EDT 2008

This version is getting as fully automatic as it can ever be!!
I had wanted to truely automate the upload/download process
for LOTW as much as I could -- so, " ONE STEP " that I recently
did -- was to "delete the requirement" for me to have to enter
a password when I sign the adif file - making the tq8 file ..
This was strictly my own personal preference.. To accomplish
this, I read the TQSL Certificate program's HELP File and
found where I could "remove" the "Private Key Password" requirement.
The TQSL Certificate program's help file section that deals with
this - is entitled:
Loading a Certificate File - Private Key Password Entry
This step - "now" - has saved me one more manual step!!
THEN - I went into my AutoLoTW program and modified the Setup/Options
window completely.. I made a column for the "Password" that you use
for logging-into the ARRL LoTW website .. Once you enter the password(s)
for each entry and then press the OK button -- the password(s) are
encoded .. so, the next time you enter the Setup/Options window, you
will ONLY SEE the normal ***** type of entry in the password textbox..
By doing this, I have made available ONE MORE Step to be fully
automated ... now, "if" you want to place your website LOG-IN
password(s) into the AutoLoTW program, when you press the Upload
button or the Download button on the program's Main Window, the
FULL "log-in" is done automatically.
So, if the DXbase user "wants" to have a fully automated LoTW
experience, the ONLY manual intervention that the user will do
NOW - is to simply PASTE (Ctrl-V) the Upload or Download Path/Filename
into the appropriate textbox .. and, THAT's IT!!!!
NOTE!! :: The user "can" still use this version 2.50 -- without
putting in their website log-in password(s)!! You will just have
to manually put the password into the webpage itself..
Version 2.50 has been updated as much as I can - to make it
fully automatic - yet still be User Friendly!!
The Screen-Capture and LINK for the AutoLoTW version 2.50 download
can be found at:
http://www.navycthistory.com/wa6axe/selection.html
73 Joe WA6AXE