[ct-user] ARRL Robot rejections

[Ed K1EP]

Given that you tried several times, and got rejected each time you 
must have the rejection messages.

Exactly what did the robot say with the rejection?  Whenever the 
robot rejects a log, it gives a reason and usually a suggestion as to 
what to correct.  Please send me or the list the mail that the robot 
returned to you.  Just saying it was rejected is like bringing your 
car in to the shop and saying "it's broke, but it worked last week."

At 12/15/2007 01:03 AM, Pfizenmayer wrote:
>Some of you may recall my problems using CT ver 9.90.007 with WRITELOG to
>generate a Cbrillo file that ARRL robot would accept for my 2007 SSCW file.
>
>  Here is a copy of my message to Sean , the new contest manager at ARRL.Any
>of the gurus here have any idea why the robot will refuse to accept a
>Cabrillo file from pfizenmayer at qwest.net  and will accept the IDENTICAL file
>from BobK8IA at aol.com.
>
>Hank K7HP
>
>PASTE OF MESSAGE FOLLOWS
>
>I spent 7 hours Friday trying to get the ARRL robot to accept a
>Cabrillo log. Whether it be a SS PH or a ARRL 10 log, I tried ver 2.0 , ver
>3.0 , I used the header examples for ver2.0 and ver 3.0 , I also used
>headers from
>my last years SS and ARRL 10 submissions which were accepted (but sent from
>my worldnet.att.net dial up connection.) I even went to the
>http://b4h.net/cabforms/ , did a dummy 4 line qso file to get his Cabrillo
>file to look at and used that exact file with my full qso data and it too
>was rejected.
>
>The files were all editd in NOTEPAD , not a fullbore word processor.
>
>I use CT  ver 9.90.007 which has been producing Cabrillo files for several
>years - its NOT a matter of contacting CT.  I had K8IA send me his headers
>from his last two submissions and copied  them with my data substituted and
>the robot rejected every damn submission I sent in.
>
>I had the SAME problem trying to get my SSCW log accepted.
>
>FINALLY , K8IA and myself decided to do what we did to get the CW log
>accepted. We took my Cabrillo log files which had been rejected by the ARRL
>robot , and he sent them from his email account (BobK8IA at aol.com) and BOTH
>were accepted on the first try.  These were the IDENTICAL files I sent from
>my email account (pfizenmayer at qwest.net) that were rejected. The robot read
>the info accurately just as I had written the file , sent the confirming
>message back and assigned a number.
>
>I can only deduce that there is some very very strange reason that the ARRL
>robot is seeing something in the qwest.net  source files that is causing
>the rejection.
>
>  Any ideas ?
>
>  Hank K7HP
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kutzko, Sean, KX9X" <kx9x at arrl.org>
>To: "Pfizenmayer" <pfizenmayer at qwest.net>
>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:40 AM
>Subject: RE: UNABLE TO PROCESS LOG SUBMISSION: K7HP
>
>
>Hello-
>
>Based on this message, you are not sending a Cabrillo log. I searched
>the incoming email to the robot and found no email; everything you have
>sent to the robot has bounced.
>
>Please contact the author of the logging software you use and ask for
>assistance in exporting your log to Cabrillo format.
>
>For more information on Cabrillo standards, you can visit:
>
>http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo
>
>73,
>
>Sean Kutzko, KX9X
>ARRL Contest Branch Manager
>225 Main St.
>Newington, CT 06111
>(860) 594-0232
>skutzko at arrl.org
>
>
>
>
>
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