== Setting up LotW on your Computer ==

'''TQSL''' is an application used to digitally sign and upload QSOs to the ARRL's Logbook of the World (LotW) online service, and to manage the '''Callsign Certificates''' used when digitally signing QSOs to be uploaded to LotW. DXKeeper automatically invokes '''TQSL''' when uploading your QSOs to LotW.

To digitally sign a set of QSOs to be uploaded, TQSL requires a '''Callsign Certificate''' issued to you by the ARRL, and requires you to specify the location from which you operated when making every QSO being uploaded. To make this easy, TQSL lets you define and name a '''Station Location''' that specifies a '''Callsign Certificate''' and operating location; you can configure DXKeeper to use a particular '''Station Location''' when it invokes '''TQSL''' to upload your QSOs.

'''TQSL''' also provides the ability to map modes not defined by the ADIF standard to modes that it can recognize.

To setup LotW on your computer,

 1. [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/installation/|Install TQSL on your computer]]; Important note: '''Do not run the TQSL Installer with Administrative privileges''' (e.g. do not start it with "Run as Administrator").


 1. [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/certreq/|Request your initial Callsign Certificate and LotW Account Password]]


 1. [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/certaccept/| Accept your initial Callsign Certificate]]


 1. [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/stnloc/|Define a Station Location]]

    * in step 2.a of these instructions, leave the '''Callsign''' set to ''[None]'', and check the '''Allow 'None' for Call Sign''' box

    * after completing the definition of your Station Location in TQSL, click the '''Update''' button to the right of the '''station location''' selector in the '''TQSL''' panel at the bottom of DXKeeper's '''QSL Configuration''' window's '''LoTW''' tab.

=== Other LotW Operations ===

 *  [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/addcertreq/| Request an additional Callsign Certificate]]


 *  [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/addcertaccept/m| Accept an additional Callsign Certificate]]

 
 *  [[CreateAdditionalStationLocation| Create an additional Station Location]]


 *  [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/stnloc/| Update a '''Station Location''']]
 
 *  [[LotWRemoveCallsignFromStationLocation|Removing the Station Callsign from a Station Location]]

 *  [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/multiple-computers/| Copying Station Locations and Callsign Certificates from one computer to another]]

 *  [[LotWMoveToAnotherPC| Using LotW on another computer]]

 *  [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/expiration/| Determining when a Callsign Certificate will expire]]

 *  [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/renewing/| Renewing a Callsign Certificate]]

 *  [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/certreplace/| Replacing an Expired Callsign Certificate]]

 *  [[https://lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/pref-adi/| Adding or Deleting ADIF Mode Mappings]]


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[[QSLingLotW|QSLing with Logbook of the World ]]

[[QSLing|QSLing with DXKeeper]]

[[Logging|Logging with DXKeeper]]

[[GettingStarted|Getting Started with DXLab]]