[VHFcontesting] The "new and improved?" ARRL Log Robot

[John (JK) Kalenowsky, K9JK]

John K9IJ <k9ij at vx5.com> wrote:
>
>At 08:10 PM 6/12/2007, Norm Alexander wrote:
>>NO. My FSK and 2.3 logs bounced.
>>Change your 903 to 902.
>
>And change 1.2 to 1.2G
>
>John - K9IJ
>
>>Norm kc6zwt.
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" <sparkygr at comcast.net>
>>To: <vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu>
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:54 PM
>>Subject: [VHF] 903 & 1.2G log entries
>>
>>
>>>Anybody heard anything out of arrl re: log submissions?
>>>Bob K8DOG/R
>>>------
>
>-

I CAN confirm that "1.2G" worked for 1296 QSOs.

I can ALSO CONFIRM that the robot says "I do not recognize 'FM' as a valid 
mode." EVEN THOUGH the Cabrillo QSO-template at 
http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/qso-template.html definitely DOES include 
"FM" among the four items that are listed.

For "FSK", I'd suggest trying "RY" but it's certainly possible that the 
robot will say the same thing about "RY" as I experienced with "FM".

At least the report is a little bit more 'informative' but such a 
'significant' change SHOULD have been 'tested' and debugged before releasing 
it on the ARRL's (VHF) Contest "Customers". Was there an announcement 
somewhere that the "robot" was changing? If there was, >>I<< definitely 
missed it.

73, JK