### Sending a Certificate Request

The end result of generating a certificate request is a certificate-request file. This file must be sent to the TrustedQSL certificate issuer, who will then issue a digital certificate.

tQSLCert will display a message box telling you where to send the request file for the selected issuer.

You also should save the certificate (which so far consists of only the private key) onto a backup medium (floppy disk, CD-R, etc) in case your system crashes and the certificate data is lost.

Once the issuer responds to your certificate request by sending the issued certificate, you must load the received TQSL (.tq6) certificate file to make the certificate ready for use.