The goal of the Cabrillo summary sheet information is for the contest
participant to describe the nature of his participation in the
contest. It will be the responsibility of the contest sponsor to assign
a given log to a valid contest category based on the attributes of
the operation.
For instance, there is no Single Op Assisted category in the ARRL 10
Meter Contest. However, many people operate packet assisted as a
matter of course. It will be up to the contest sponsor's discretion
to assign such logs to be Multi Op or Checklog. If desired, the
logging software may coerce the user to select a valid combination of
category attributes for a given contest -- this is left to the
discretion of the software author.
Cabrillo V3 is intended to be backwards compatible with previous
versions of Cabrillo. Therefore if people submit logs that were
created by Cabrillo v2-compliant loggers, their logs will still be
accepted by Cabrillo v3 email robots.
The Cabrillo format for Sweepstakes looks like this:
QSO: 14042 CW 1997-11-03 0101 N5KO 1211 B 74 SCV KA5WSS/VE3 1071 A 74 ON
QSO: 14042 CW 1997-11-03 0102 N5KO 1212 B 74 SCV NJ2L 1122 B 81 WNY
QSO: 14042 CW 1997-11-03 0102 N5KO 1213 B 74 SCV K9ZO 902 A 69 IL
You will note that data is in fixed columns and is space delimited, so
as to make it both human and robot readable. However, in the case of
a field overflow, the information should be truncated so that it fits
into the field and doesn't disrupt data in other columns, so a call
like KA5WSS/ARRL-JUBILEE would appear like this:
QSO: 14042 CW 1997-11-03 0101 N5KO 1211 B 74 SCV KA5WSS/ARR 1071 A 74 ON
QSO: 14042 CW 1997-11-03 0102 N5KO 1212 B 74 SCV NJ2L 1122 B 81 WNY
QSO: 14042 CW 1997-11-03 0102 N5KO 1213 B 74 SCV K9ZO 902 A 69 IL
One goal is to make the logs and summary sheets easy to digest by both
humans and by computers. The only appropriate non-printable
characters in a log submission should be SPACE and the appropriate text
end-of-line sequence for the platform the logging program runs on,
such as CR/LF for DOS.
CLAIMED-SCORE is included so that a High Claimed Scores report may be
generated. Line score data such a QSOs, QSO points, multipliers,
on-time and off-time will be computed during the log checking process.
CLUB, OPERATORS, SOAPBOX, and ADDRESS lines may appear multiple times
with different data, as shown. Please limit the nubmer of ADDRESS:
lines to a total count of four so that the name and address may be fit
onto a standard mailing label.
NAME: Trey Garlough
ADDRESS: 7375 Oak Ridge Road
ADDRESS: Aptos, CA 95003
ADDRESS: USA
Other types of lines may only appear once.
If no soapbox is entered into the logging program, please write out
something like
SOAPBOX:
SOAPBOX:
SOAPBOX:
SOAPBOX:
so that people will get the right idea if they decide to edit the file
by hand. Same thing applies to NAME, ADDRESS, CLUB, and OPERATORS.
The OPERATORS field is a space-delimited list of operator callsign(s).
You may also list the callsign of the host station by placing an "@"
caracter in front of the callsign within the operator list. KH6ND
operating from KH7R's QTH as KH7X could describe this situation in his
Cabrillo file like this
CALLSIGN: KH7X
OPERATORS: KH6ND @KH7R