[ct-user] CQ Robot bounces (kinda long...)

[John A. Scott]

If you look carefully, the first line that was bounced was probably the 
first QSO on 11/27/2005.  This was the case on my log.  The robot seems 
to show the next 50 or 60 rejected lines before it figures that you know 
what's going on.  It appears that the subroutine to check the contest 
dates uses a different date for the message than is used for checking 
the date.  I'm sure the CQWW contest committee is getting a lot of 
emails by now!!

  --John Scott,  K8YC

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Mohammad Arif Faraz wrote:

>I found same problem starting line 551 until 600.
>
>QSO: 14000 CW 2005-11-27 0002 YE1ZAT        599 28     JR1LEV        599 25 
>1
>  Line 551 was discarded.  Invalid date and time.  The contest took
>  place from 0000Z on 2005-11-26 through 2359Z on 2005-11-27.
>
>Already sent email to Contester Committe and waiting for they reply.
>Arif - YB1BAD
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Chuck Chandler" <charles_chandler at comcast.net>
>To: <ct-user at contesting.com>
>Cc: "Floyd Gerald" <floydgee at datasync.com>; <cw-problems at cqww.com>
>Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:27 AM
>Subject: [ct-user] CQ Robot bounces (kinda long...)
>
>
>  
>
>>I've just finished my modest 80-Meter effort in CQ WW CW.  Only 60 QSO's 
>>but
>>they include #'s 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 and 100 on 80 meters for me, so it was 
>>a
>>success!
>>
>>When I submit my log I get the reply:
>>
>>Your submission to cw at cqww.com does not appear to be in the
>>required Cabrillo format.
>>
>>I did two things after the contest - I ran b2r, changed a time, then ran
>>r2b.  I also ran fix_mine to remove a bad QSO.  Nothing else.  After that 
>>I
>>opened the log in CT and verified everything looked OK.  I had downloaded
>>10.02.008 this past week, along with cty and master files so all is up to
>>date.  I opened the WS1L.log file in Notepad and all the data looks right,
>>correct format, etc.  Yet, when I sent it (as an attachment) I got the
>>bounce message above.
>>
>>IIRC, this happened to me in the 2005 CQ WPX test and I sent an email to 
>>the
>>address given for robot issues but never got a response.  I guess my log 
>>was
>>too small to matter to them, not even an email reply.
>>
>>So, I cut and pasted the log text into the next email and got a reply that
>>it could be processed but had errors.  The errors were many lines with a 1
>>at the end, and many lines with times (correct ones) that were (according 
>>to
>>the robot) outside the contest times... like:
>>
>>QSO:  3531 CW 2005-11-27 0233 WS1L          599 4      KL7WV         599 1
>> Line 96 was discarded.  Invalid date and time.  The contest took
>> place from 0000Z on 2005-11-26 through 2359Z on 2005-11-27.
>>
>>Umm, hello? 0233 on 2005-11-27 is within the contest time period... and
>>there were about 30 more like this.  Half of my little log is being 
>>ignored.
>>
>>I went into the log file and removed all the "1"'s at the end of each 
>>line.
>>Still got the weird clock errors, though.
>>
>>Has anyone else seen this problem, and is there a fix?
>>
>>And, more to the point... as the CQ Robot told me:
>>
>>You only have 1 log to submit correctly, we have
>>more than 7000 to process!
>>
>>Quite true... but if CQ doesn't make things a bit easier for us little
>>pistols, the big guns will be all alone.  That ought to cut down on their
>>workload.
>>
>>If there are errors in my Cabrillo file, I'll fix them.  I guess with all
>>the CT users out there, the chances of CT doing it wrong are pretty slim 
>>but
>>I can't figure out where I messed it up.
>>
>>Any and all help, hints, etc. gratefully appreciated...
>>
>>73,
>>============================
>>Chuck Chandler
>>WS1L
>>charles_chandler at comcast.net
>>============================
>>
>>
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