[UK-CONTEST] CC Logs

[Dave Lawley]

Logs are starting to come in from last night's session so here is a plea 
to help the adjudicators:

1. Make sure the Cabrillo header includes a CLUB: line indicating which 
club you represent. Most versions of SD can do this, but some using SD 
haven't supplied the info. I'm sure EI5DI will be glad to give 
assistance if you're having trouble.

2. It's very helpful during the automated collation process if all 
members of a club spell the club name the same way, with the same 
abbreviation. For example some logs have HORNDEAN & DISTRICT ARC while 
some have HORNDEAN ARC. Why can't we just take the first word? Because 
then we couldn't distinguish between CONTEST CAMBRIA and CONTEST 
CUMBRIA, for example!

3. Make sure the Cabrillo header shows the category, LOW or QRP. This 
information is missing from a number of logs, and by default they all go 
  into the LOW category. Variants such as 100W can also be handled but 
the software does not recognise things like "90 watts" so manual 
intervention is required.

On the positive front, all the logs for the first CW session were 
Cabrillo, which is excellent! Two were homebrew Cabrillo and both of 
those required considerable editing. If you're going to homebrew your 
log please note:
1. Every line in Cabrillo that is to be processed must contain a colon, 
so for example all the QSO lines must start QSO:
2. Data is required in each field, it is no good leaving a field blank 
if it should contain the same data as the previous line.

Dealing with some of these issues has contributed to the delay in 
processing the first CW logs from 23rd Feb but I hope to get them done 
this weekend.

Thanks for your cooperation

Dave G4BUO
RSGB HF Contests Committee