[UK-CONTEST] Cabrillo - claimed scores

[Tim-M0BEW]

All the claimed score line is for is to assist creating a high score list by
the sponsers.
The robot will not bounce because this particular line is empty.
However it may be helpfull to just place a zero in the claimed score line
and add a note to the soapbox line saying something along the lines of
claimed score unknown, un-supported software.

START-OF-LOG: 2.0
ARRL-SECTION: DX
CALLSIGN: M0BEW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CW
CLAIMED-SCORE: 0
CLUB:
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
CREATED-BY: WriteLog V10.37B
NAME: T.ELWELL
ADDRESS: BIRMINGHAM
ADDRESS: ENGLAND
OPERATORS: M0BEW
SOAPBOX: CLAIMED SCORE UNKNOWN, SCORING NOT SUPPORTED

END-OF-LOG:

Tim-M0BEW.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Tran GM3WOJ" <gm3woj at talk21.com>
To: "Ian White, G3SEK" <g3sek at ifwtech.co.uk>; <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Cabrillo - claimed scores


> Hello Ian et al
>
> I'm sorry to disagree, but the FAQ on the website you mention (which
> seems several years old) does not actually answer the question 'is the
> claimed score necessary in a Cabrillo entry ?'. The most relevant FAQ is :
> -------
> 2.2 There is no way to assign point values to QSOs in Cabrillo.  Why not?
>
> The point value of each QSO will be computed automatically as part of
> the log checking procedure.
> -------
> Obviously any participant in a contest wants to know roughly how well
> they have done by calculating their Claimed score, but as I mentioned
> before there are occasions where perhaps you want to send in an entry
> for a minor contest, where the scoring or multiplier checking is not
> correctly performed by whatever software you are using, but the software
> will produce a Cabrillo file.
>
> Despite what others have said, I like Cabrillo format entries - I like the
> idea of the contest organiser's log-checking procedures 'ironing out' any
> discrepancies in entrant's methods of calculating their own score.
> Does anyone know if the ARRL Contest robot, for example, will reject
> a log that has nothing on the 'Claimed score' line ?
>
> 73
> Chris     GM3WOJ
>
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