Using N1MM + and the robot kicked out my WSJT contact with VE1SKY until I put
RY for the mode, then it took it..
Wonder why N1MM’s ARRL QSO party log program put in a non permitted cabrillo…
73 Dana VE3DS
> On Jun 19, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Roger Rehr W3SZ <73w3sz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> I agree with what you say to do, log it as RY.
>
> My reasoning is based on the fact that I upload my logs to LOTW and use that
> for Awards purposes. So a mode designation is needed that will [1] be
> acceptable to Cabrillo and [2] be acceptable to LOTW, and which will [3]
> likely "work" what your QSO partner has uploaded to LOTW to give you a
> confirmed QSO in LOTW.
>
> For digital modes and LOTW, the ARRL states at:
> http://www.arrl.org/files/file/LoTW%20Instructions/TQSL%202_0%202013/Secodary%20operations/Digital%20Modes.pdf
>
> "LoTW will match a QSO as long as the calls, time (+/-30 minutes), date, band
> and mode are the same. For digital modes all digital sub mode (PSK31, JT65,
> JT9, MT63,OLIVIA, etc.) will qualify as DATA. (The same applies for voice
> modes. All voicemodes qualify as PHONE). That is to say that if you log a
> QSO as PSK31 and the other operator logs the same QSO as RTTY then LoTW will
> match the QSO, assuming all other parameters match, and each operator will be
> credited with DATA"
>
> And the chance that your QSO partner will log a digital QSO as some digital
> mode, I believe, is significantly greater than the chance that he will log it
> as "PHONE" or a phone mode.
>
> So RY it is :)
>
> 73,
>
> Roger Rehr
> W3SZ
>
> On 6/19/2015 12:44 PM, David Pruett wrote:
>> Ken,
>>
>> PSK is not a legitimate Cabrillo mode. According to the published Cabrillo
>> 3.0 specification on the WWROF site, these are the only legitimate Cabrillo
>> modes:
>>
>> CW
>> PH
>> FM
>> RY
>>
>> Based on this, even W5ZN's suggestion to show it as SSB (which was almost
>> certainly the mode your transceiver was set for) doesn't comply.
>>
>> As some have suggested, the mode is not a scoring parameter in the ARRL VHF
>> contest, so perhaps it doesn't matter. In the end, it all boils down to
>> what the ARRL contest robot and the logchecker will accept.
>>
>> If it were me, I would do like K7CW suggested and change it to RY. Then
>> there can be no argument that it is legitimate Cabrillo data representing a
>> digital mode QSO.
>>
>> 73, Dave/K8CC
>>
>> On 6/19/2015 10:27 AM, Kenneth Silverman wrote:
>>> We made some JT65 EME QSOs in the June VHF contest. Is there a correct
>>> mode to use, or is mode irrelevant? We currently have it marked as PSK.
>>>
>>> Many thanks, Kenny K2KW - C6ATA in the contest.
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