ELECTRONIC LOGS Please submit CQ WPX Contest logs via e

ELECTRONIC LOGS

Please submit CQ WPX Contest logs via e-mail to ssb@cqwpx.com for SSB and cw@cqwpx.com for CW. Logs are requested to be in the Cabrillo file format.

Most logging programs now support the Cabrillo format. If yours does not, please check to see if there is an upgrade for your logging program available. The CT logging program is now freeware and is available at no charge from http://www.k1ea.com/. (For logs not created in the Cabrillo file format, send an e-mail to k6aw@cqww.com describing how your log file was created, and submission instructions will be provided.)

Cabrillo format logs are received by a log processing robot. If your log has been submitted correctly, the robot will reply with an e-mail containing a tracking (confirmation) number. If there is a problem with your log, the robot will send you an error message containing suggestions for how to fix your log. Read this e-mail carefully. Most log submission problems are minor and can be corrected in one pass. Submit your log as many times as needed. Once you get the tracking number, your log has been accepted.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE CALLSIGN YOU USED IN THE CONTEST (THE ONE IN YOUR LOG) APPEARS IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF THE E-MAIL. If this information is not there, your log will be rejected by the robot.

Completely fill out the header information in the Cabrillo file. You can do this while you are setting up the contest information in the logging program, or afterward using a well-behaved text editor like Notepad or the DOS editor.

Check the Cabrillo file header closely before submitting your log. Items may have been omitted or may be incomplete. If you did not answer all of the questions correctly when you set up the contest in the logging program or have changed your mind about your category, or the operator list has changed and you do not correct these items, the wrong information WILL get posted to the Cabrillo file. Whatever is recorded in the header of your Cabrillo file at the time you submit your log is how we will process your entry.

The only way to change your log entry once the robot has accepted it is for you to submit another log.

Editing the Cabrillo File Header

When manually entering CABRILLO header information, please follow the format below. The format for each entry is <LABEL>: followed by a space.

START-OF-LOG: version-number X.X
Must be the first line of the log submission. The current version-number is 2.0.

END-OF-LOG:
Must be the last line of the log submission.

CALLSIGN: callsign
The callsign used during the contest.

ARRL-SECTION: US & VE stations please put your ARRL Section. All others please put DX

CATEGORY: operator-category band-category power-category [mode-category]
For the WPX contests the operator-category must be one of the following: SINGLE-OP, SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED, MULTI-ONE, MULTI-TWO, MULTI-MULTI, or CHECKLOG.

IMPORTANT: If you are entering the Rookie, Band-Limited or Tribander-Wires categories, you must instead provide CATEGORY-OVERLAY: information - see below

The band-category must be one of the following: ALL, 160M, 80M, 40M, 20M, 15M or 10M.

If you are entering an all band category, use ALL, otherwise select one of the individual bands shown.

The power-category must be HIGH, LOW or QRP.

The only possible category combinations for the WPX contests are:

CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 160M HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 80M HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 40M HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 20M HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 15M HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M HIGH

CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 160M LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 80M LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 40M LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 20M LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 15M LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M LOW

CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL QRP
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 160M QRP
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 80M QRP
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 40M QRP
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 20M QRP
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 15M QRP
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M QRP

CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 160M HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 80M HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 40M HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 20M HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 15M HIGH
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 10M HIGH

CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 160M LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 80M LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 40M LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 20M LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 15M LOW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 10M LOW

CATEGORY: MULTI-ONE
CATEGORY: MULTI-TWO
CATEGORY: MULTI-MULTI
CATEGORY: CHECKLOG

If you are entering one of the Rookie, Band Restricted or Tribander/Single Element categories, use only the following:

For ROOKIE, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: ROOKIE

For BAND RESTRICTED, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: BAND-LIMITED

For TRIBANDER/SINGLE ELEMENT, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: TB-WIRES

CLAIMED-SCORE: n
The claimed-score of the log submission, in integer form such as 1217315 or
19113 or 12. DO NOT USE COMMAS.

CLUB: text
Name of the radio club with which the score should be aggregated. PLEASE SPELL OUT THE CLUB NAME

CONTEST: contest-name
The contest-name must be one of the following: CQ-WPX-CW, CQ-WPX-SSB
Be sure to use hyphens as shown. DO NOT PUT THE YEAR OR USE PH INSTEAD OF SSB

CREATED-BY: text
Name and version of the logging program used to create the Cabrillo file. (This
field is optional.)

NAME: text
ADDRESS: text
ADDRESS: text
ADDRESS: text
Name and address, each line is 75 characters long.

OPERATORS: callsign1 [callsign2 callsign3...] DO NOT USE COMMAS.
A space-delimited list of operator callsigns for multi operator stations, or single operator entries who wish to show they operated at another station. If you operated at another station, you may list it by prepending an @ sign, e.g., W1ABC, W2DEF, W3GHI @W3BGN. NOTE: If you select a multi-operator category and do not enter operator callsigns in this field, the robot will reject your log.

SOAPBOX: text
Enter as many lines of soapbox text as you wish. Each line is 75 characters long and must begin with SOAPBOX: followed by a space.

QSO: qso-data

Cabrillo QSO template for CQ WPX

                              --------info sent------- -------info rcvd--------
QSO: freq  mo date       time call          rst exch   call          rst exch   t
QSO: ***** ** yyyy-mm-dd nnnn ************* nnn ****** ************* nnn ****** n
QSO:  3799 PH 1999-03-06 0711 HC8N          59  001    W1AW          59  001    0
000000000111111111122222222223333333333444444444455555555556666666666777777777788
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901

PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR CABRILLO FILE INCLUDES THIS INFORMATION. ALL LOGS, INCLUDING MULTI-OP MUST INCLUDE BOTH SENT AND RECEIVED SERIAL NUMBERS. MULTI-MULTI STATIONS MUST SHOW THE SERIAL NUMBERS SENT and RECEIVED BY BAND. For the MULTI-TWO category, the last column in the log indicates which transmitter made the QSO, a 0 or a 1.

A Checklist for Sending E-mail Logs

1) Your callsign is in the message subject and in the log.
2) Your log is in Cabrillo format.
If you don't know how to put it in Cabrillo or aren't sure the format is correct, send your log anyway. If you get an error message, send E-mail to questions@cqwpx.com

3) The log begins with START-OF-LOG: and has both dashes with a colon at the end.
4) The contest name in the log looks like this:
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-SSB
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-CW
These are the only two that are accepted.
5) The category is one of the standards shown above.
6) The last line in the log is END-OF-LOG:
7) The time and date (UTC) must be within the contest period. If not, the robot may think the log is for the wrong contest.
8) Check the summary area of the log to be sure there are spaces after the colons and the keys are properly hyphenated.
9) Be sure each line in the summary has a key. If you need more lines for your address or for your comments , add as many ADDRESS: and SOAPBOX: keys as you need.