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Re: [VHFcontesting] Fw: [1151282.cq-vhf] K4ESA/R Log submitingwrong??

To: "David Pruett" <k8cc@comcast.net>, "Bob Mantell" <k4esa@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Fw: [1151282.cq-vhf] K4ESA/R Log submitingwrong??
From: "Ken Kent" <KA2LIM@stny.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:14:51 -0400
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You all need to bombard N3FJP with emails asking him to upgrade to Cabrillo
3.0, because when I ask him to do it a year ago, his excuse for not
updateing was: V2.0 is still accepted. And, the sponsors of the contests
need to state what version of Cabrillo the want used.

Ken
KA2LIM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Pruett" <k8cc@comcast.net>
To: "Bob Mantell" <k4esa@yahoo.com>
Cc: <N3FJP_Software_Users@yahoogroups.com>; <VHFcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Fw: [1151282.cq-vhf] K4ESA/R Log
submitingwrong??


> Bob,
>
> It appears that the robot cannot decipher a Cabrillo 2.0 log.  A year or
> so ago the Cabrillo specification was changed to 3.0, and all of the
> changes affected the "Category" which used to be all on one line in 2.0,
> but are now split up in 3.0.  It appears that N3FJP is partly 2.0 and
> partly 3.0.  A newer version of the N3FJP software may be all that's
needed.
>
> One observation is that the line saying "Rover" should read:
> CATEGORY-STATION: ROVER instead.
>
> The official definitions of the Cabrillo key-words can be found at
> http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/tags.html.
>
> 73, Dave/K8CC
>
>
> Bob Mantell wrote:
> > Why cannot  class me as a rover? The file looks ok going in?
> >
> > Here is a copy of the header and what the robot replied:
> >
> >
> > START-OF-LOG: 2.0
> > CREATED-BY: N3FJP's VHF Contest Log 2.8
> > CONTEST: CQ-VHF
> > CALLSIGN: K4ESA/R
> > CATEGORY: ROVER
> > CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
> >
> >
> >
> > 73 de Bob,
> >
> >  K4ESA EM74qc
> >
> > Bob Mantell
> > k4esa@yahoo.com
> >
> >
> > --- On Wed, 7/22/09, Contest Robot <unreplyable@kkn.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Contest Robot <unreplyable@kkn.net>
> > Subject: [1151282.cq-vhf] K4ESA/R
> > To: "Bob Mantell" <k4esa@yahoo.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 5:13 AM
> >
> >
> > 2009 CQ World-Wide VHF Contest
> >
> >              Callsign: K4ESA/R
> >     Category-Operator: SINGLE-OP
> >         Category-Band: ALL    (*** see below)
> >        Category-Power: HIGH    (*** see below)
> >
> >
> > *** Informative Messages from the Contest Robot ***
> >
> > [X] No value is found for CATEGORY-BAND: --  I was expecting ALL or 50
or 144, so I set it to the default value of ALL.
> >
> > [X] No value is found for CATEGORY-POWER: --  I was expecting HIGH or
LOW or QRP, so I set it to the default value of HIGH.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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