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Subject: [CQ-Contest] robot problems
From: Trey Garlough <trey@kkn.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:36:34 -0800
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> Anyone know why the Cabrillo file on
> http://www.w9wi.com/contest/w9wi.cbr is being rejected?  
> 
> The robot says:
> 
>       "ERROR #1: No callsign specified."
> 
> but the Cabrillo file contains
> 
>       "CALLSIGN: W9WI"
> 
> [...]

http://www.w9wi.com/contest/w9wi.cbr looks like this:

CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CALLSIGN: W9WI
ARRL-SECTION: TN
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL HIGH SSB
CLUB: Tennessee Contest Group
START-OF-LOG: 2.0
QSO: 21000 PH 2005-03-05 1433 W9WI          59  TN     SP7MTF        59  500
QSO: 21000 PH 2005-03-05 1434 W9WI          59  TN     OO4JZ         59  KW   
[and so on]
END-OF-LOG:

When the robot reads a message, it flattens out all the attachments
into a big flat entity that you can think of as the "body" of the
message.  Then it scans the flattened message body for a Cabrillo log,
looking for a line that has "START-OF-LOG:" in column 1.  From that
point it starts adding lines to its own internal "log" file until it
reaches a line that has "END-OF-LOG:" in column 1.  Everything before
the START-OF-LOG: and after the END-OF-LOG: is considered QRM and is
discarded.

After all this has been done, the robot evaluates the log file.  In
the case of http://www.w9wi.com/contest/w9wi.cbr the resultant log
file looks like:

START-OF-LOG: 2.0
QSO: 21000 PH 2005-03-05 1433 W9WI          59  TN     SP7MTF        59  500
QSO: 21000 PH 2005-03-05 1434 W9WI          59  TN     OO4JZ         59  KW
[and so on]
END-OF-LOG:

Callsign, category and ARRL section are required fields; the robot 
is complaining because these fields are missing from the log.

--Trey, N5KO

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