Re: [VHFcontesting] ARRL robot...HUH?

["Marty Woll" <n6vi@socal.rr.com>]

Sorry if this is a dupe, but my reply message bounced to some or all recipients 
because I don't have posting privileges to PNWVHF.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marty Woll 
  To: Jon Casamajor ; 'PNWVHFS' 
  Cc: vhfcontesting@contesting.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:00 PM
  Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] ARRL robot...HUH?


  I'd say you have the spacing in your log file incorrect.  Each data field has 
specific columns to which it is assigned.  If you had too few spaces after 
"QSO:" and before the band, your mode info ("PH") is in the band columns rather 
than in the mode column.  The robot sees it and doesn't recognize "PH" as a 
band designator.  The Mode columns are # 12 and 13; columns 11 and 14 are 
blank; the date starts in column 15.  Here's a sample of a properly formatted 
VHF Contest Cabrillo entry:

  QSO:   432 PH 2010-09-11 2107 N6VI/R            DM13   N6KN              DM03 
 

  Put your cursor to the left of the line and count the right-arrow clicks to 
finds the proper position of any data field.  Then make all your other QSOs 
line up exactly the same under the first one.

  If you want to send me some sample lines from your file, I'll check it out 
for you.

  73,

  Marty N6VI

  SoCal Contest CLub


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jon Casamajor 
    To: 'PNWVHFS' 
    Cc: vhfcontesting@contesting.com 
    Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:01 PM
    Subject: [VHFcontesting] ARRL robot...HUH?


    I submitted my log to the robot today and got back a nice thank
    you.however.I think the robot is a bit confused! I got a message at the
    bottom which was entitled as "an informative message from the Contest
    Robot".  I've pasted it below as I don't see what the decision was to do
    about these errors.  The errors it is telling me that were in my log, are
    not in the Cabrillo file that I sent to the ARRL. Dunno.All of the fields in
    the log are in the correct place! L

    Was someone looking into this? 

     

    *** Informative Messages from the Contest Robot ***

     

    [X] FYI:  A sample QSO line for ARRL-VHF-SEP looks like this:

    QSO:    50 PH 2006-06-10 2114 K5TR              EM00   CO2OJ
    EL83

     

    [X] QSO: PH 2010-09-12 2347 K6EL              CM99   KE6ILX/R          CM99

    Line ignored.

    I do not recognize 'PH' as a valid VHF contest frequency.

    I do not recognize '2010-09-12' as a valid mode.

    I do not recognize '2347 K6EL' as a valid date and time.

    I do not recognize 'KE6ILX/R' as a valid grid.

    I do not recognize '' as a valid grid.

     

     

     73, Jon

     K6EL

     

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