[UK-CONTEST] (Fwd) RE: IOTA 08

[Dave Sergeant]

Think Steve meant this to go to the reflector (or to the OP).

73 Dave G3YMC

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From:           	"Stephen Emlyn-Jones" <gw4bkg at btinternet.com>
To:             	"'Dave Sergeant'" <dave at davesergeant.com>
Subject:        	RE: [UK-CONTEST] IOTA 08
Date sent:      	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:58:57 +0100

I run HRD myself & can confirm that there an option to export to
Cabrillo. This can be found by selecting the Logbook option at the top
of the screen - Cabrillo is the 3rd entry on the dropdown. I also
subscribe to the HRD mailing list & have never seen any adverse 
comments
in this direction. The author of HRD Simon Brown HB9DRV is involved in
ADIF forums as well & having used that option myself to export to 
DXLabs
I have had no issues at all. Steve GW4BKG

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave Sergeant
Sent: 30 July 2008 13:10 To: uk-contest at contesting.com Subject: Re:
[UK-CONTEST] IOTA 08

A Cabrillo line for the IOTA contest should be of the form:

QSO: 14021 CW 2008-07-26 1212 G3YMC         599  005 EU-005 5P5X        

  599  019 EU-029
(one one line, not wrapped like this..).

The number of spaces is irrelevant but you need all this information in
the correct order. Plus a number of standard header lines at the
beginning. Anything different and the robot won't be able to read it.

Ham Radio Deluxe, like any station logging program, is NOT a contest
logger and is unlikely to produce a correctly formatted Cabrillo log.
You should use a seperate contest program during the contest then
produce an ADIF file to import into your station log.

I imagine N1MM produces a correct Cabrillo output for IOTA. But for a
single operator station Paul EI5DI's SD/SDI do an excellent job of
producing the correct entry file for most contests.

73 Dave G3YMC

On 30 Jul 2008 at 12:10, Tammie Evans wrote:

> Hello once again, I submitted my log and had the auto-robot error
> message come back... upon checking why it wasn't space properly... ie
> probably entirely my fault due to mis-entry in logging programme - how
> should I have entered signal reports, island numbers?
> 
> I was using Ham Radio Deluxe (am about to change to Ham Logger and
> N1MM) and just put something like
> 
> Sent - 5901 EU005   Received 5929 AS004
> 
> In HRD there are two boxes each for send and receive... maybe it's my
> mis-understanding of how to enter the number(s)/letter(s) in the
> boxes?
> 
> Have now successfully re-entered the log and it was all okay but just
> wondering what I've done wrong in case in the future I mis-enter
> information into one of the new logging programmes?
> 
> 73 Tammie M3ENF
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