FYI for all Club members.
73
Ed
> "Bernie McClenny, W3UR" wrote:
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> Web Applet for Creating Cabrillo Format Logs Is Available
>
> The ARRL Contest Branch is please to announce that a web-based applet is now
> available for participants to use in order to generate and email ARRL Contest
> logs in the required Cabrillo file format. The first ARRL Contest for which
> the web applet is available is the recently completed 2004 RTTY Roundup. The
> applet, while intended for smaller log submissions, can be used for
> submissions of any size. It will be available for all ARRL events that
> require electronic logs in the Cabrillo file format.
>
> Thanks to Bruce Horn, WA7BNM, and with the support of several other amateurs,
> it is now possible for participants to create Cabrillo contest logs on the
> web. Bruce is developing templates for each ARRL contest, which will allow
> persons that paper log, or those whose logging programs will not generate a
> Cabrillo file, to create electronic logs for submission to the League. Bruce
> has provided a homepage at http://www.b4h.net/cabforms/ where links will take
> users to the various contest templates.
>
> The web applet works in two parts. First, the user is prompted through the
> information required to create the Cabrillo file header, including ARRL/RAC
> section, Callsign used, Callsigns of operators, Entry class, Entry mode (if
> applicable), Power level, Sent exchange information, Club (if applicable),
> and Operator?s name and address. Where appropriate, drop-down boxes are used
> to allow the submitter to select the correct information.
>
> Once you have finished supplying the information for the header, the next
> screen allows you to input the data for each individual QSO. The user may
> either type in the information for each QSO, or they may cut and paste the
> necessary information (band, date, time, call copied, received RST, received
> exchange) from another source. Make sure to leave a space between each piece
> of data on the QSO line and to use a new line for each QSO.
>
> Once you have entered all of the QSO data, click on the ?SUBMIT QSO INFO?
> button at the bottom of the page. The applet will then check for any errors
> in format. If everything is correct, the applet will display the completed
> file, where you can check your information one last time. Finally, click the
> ?SUBMIT CABRILLO LOG? button at the bottom and the applet will automatically
> email the entry to the correct address for the contest, as well as send a
> copy to you for your records.
>
> Upon submission, the applet-created log will be processed as all other
> submissions. If the contest robot finds problems, the appropriate emails
> will be sent back to the submitter for handling or if the log is clean, the
> numbered receipt will be sent.
>
> If you have questions about the web applet, contact contests@arrl.org
>
> And again... Many thanks to Bruce Horn, WA7BNM for his work in developing
> this web application. Bruce, you are one of the unsung heroes of contesting!
>
> 73
>
> Dan Henderson, N1ND
> ARRL Contest Branch Manager
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