Cabrillo Format

[Aron Insinga]

I was having a heck of a time trying to find the cabrillo format for the very recent IARU-HF contest.  I could find:

• general information about the format and what all of the valid field values are ((http://www.arrl.org/cabrillo-format-tutorial)
• the November sweepstakes format (http://wwrof.org/cabrillo/cabrillo-specification-notes/)
• a nice page by the RSGB for their contest formats (http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/formats/templates.shtml)

I wasn’t anxious to enter the data in one QSO at a time with this web page:

• http://b4h.net/cabforms/iaruhf_cab.php

but I started anyway, and typed the information about myself and my station on the 1st page.  The second page answered the question, all it had was a giant text box to enter the data in:

Enter your QSO data in this text area, one QSO per line. Each of the fields below must be entered for each QSO. One or more spaces must separate each item in a QSO. All dates and times must be in UTC. If you didn't record the exact time of a QSO, estimate it the best you can.
--------------------------------------------------
Band Date Time Call-Copied RST-Copied Zone-Copied
20 7/9 1200 n7wa 599 06
--------------------------------------------------
<-Enter your QSO data starting on the next line. Do not erase this line.->

So I entered some test data and got this:

QSO: 14000 PH 2016-07-09 1200 W1AKI 59 8 N7WA 599 08

There’s not much to it!

I know that a great logging program would have this already built in… I’m working on that. 🙂

[Nashua Area Radio Society]

There are many PC logger programs (freeware to $$$) which can do this task.  For mobile HF, I just started using Aether for Mac, since I only take Apple devices on the road. Aether supports most contest formats including uploading cabrillo files.  At QTH, I can upload ADIF files to my HRD software, if I choose.  Aether is easy and has many features; alas, it does not have super check partial support.

73,  Dave (N1RF)

[Aron Insinga]

On 07/21/16 12:41, Jahnke, Bart, W9JJ wrote:
>
> Hi Aron,
>
> Here is a mockup of one recently submitted … the names were changed etc.
>

START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: VT
CALLSIGN: K2XYZ
CLUB: YCCC
CONTEST: IARU-HF
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: MULTIOP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: MIXED
CATEGORY-POWER: HIGH
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 123465
OPERATORS: W9JJ NN1N N1ND
NAME: BART JAHNKE
ADDRESS: 225 MAIN ST
ADDRESS-CITY: NEWINGTON
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 06111
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.5774.0
QSO: 14003 CW 2016-07-09 1200 K2XYZ         599 08     IR4M          599 28        
QSO: 14003 CW 2016-07-09 1200 K2XYZ        599 08     DL6ZB         599 28        
END-OF-LOG:

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