Tim (and everyone else),
I emailed the contests@arrl.org account and got a reply from Tom
Hogerty, KC1J, who stated that the robot uses UTC instead of local
time. I submitted mine last night and got the same message, but Tom
assured me that my log was indeed accepted. The earliest they should
be allowed to cut it off is today (2007-07-11) at 2359 UTC, but anyone
who misses that might be able to fight them on pure
"misinterpretation" of the rules. (Possibly "I thought you meant local
time!") As a recap, the ARRL rules for the 2007 June VHF QSO party, in
regards to log submission, are as follows:
6.3. Entries must be emailed or postmarked no later than July 11,
2007. Late logs may be designated as checklogs only.
Source: http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2007/june-vhf.html
The only other relevant information I could dig up was the following
tidbit under Log Submission rules for ARRL contests:
Logs must be emailed within 30 days of the end of the contest.
Source: http://www.arrl.org/contests/fileform.html
Hope nobody gets caught out in the open by this one!
73s de KC2LLT/R
-Carl
I "missed" the deadline, but barely ... and my log was still accepted.
Log Deadline: 2007-07-11 00:00:00 UTC
Received at: 2007-07-11 00:44:49 UTC ***AFTER DEADLINE***
On 7/11/07, Tim (KE3HT) <ke3ht@ke3ht.org> wrote:
> The ARRL contest robot did something strange last night. I was doing my log
> submission a little close by a day to the deadline of June 11th (see the
> ARRL Web site: http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2007/june-vhf.html)
> The robot said:
> *** Informative Messages from the Contest Robot ***
>
> [X] Log received 0 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes after deadline.
>
> How can this be when the deadline is June 11th (tonight)? Traditionally the
> ARRL gives one month from the end of the contest to report logs. It may be
> only one day but I had my best June contest ever and now I feel like it was
> a wasted effort. The ARRL web site should have said logs must be filed by
> July 10th rather than July 11th. (Good thing the IRS always uses April
> 15th:-).
>
> I have already sent an email to the contests@arrl.org about this problem but
> I am not sure if that is a bit bucket.
>
> Does anyone know of a good place to lodge a complaint or perhaps I should
> just forget it?
> Thanks-
>
> ,,,Tim KE3HT/zero-score/R
>
>
>
> -------------Full robot report------------------------
> ARRL June VHF QSO Party
>
> Callsign: KE3HT/R
> Category-Operator: SINGLE-OP
> Category-Station: ROVER
> Category-Transmitter: ONE
> Category-Power: LOW
> Location: Western Pennsylvania - WPA
> Name: Timothy P Ertl
> Postal Address: 128 Hale st
> Dalton, MA 01226
> Log Deadline: 2007-07-11 00:00:00 UTC
> Received at: 2007-07-11 03:14:26 UTC ***AFTER DEADLINE***
> Reported QSOs: 212
> Confirmation #: 4010521.arrl-vhf-jun
>
> Thank you for your participation in the contest and for submitting
> your log to JuneVHF@arrl.org. While the Contest Robot was able to
> process your log, it has discovered some potential problems. Please
> correct the problems identified below and resubmit your log. We want
> to make sure that we have your information right!
>
> If you believe you have received this message in error or if you are
> having problems creating the required log file, please contact me at
> contests@arrl.org and I will try to help.
>
> 73.
>
> ARRL Contest Branch
>
>
>
>
> *** Informative Messages from the Contest Robot ***
>
> [X] Log received 0 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes after deadline.
>
>
>
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