[VHFcontesting] N3FJP/R

[k4esa at yahoo.com]

David,
 
 
I really like the N3FJP for its simple clean layout and ease of used. I took me about 5 contacts the first time I saw it at FD last year as a new ham to master it.  I have used it for last three contests before this, 2 that were 10-10 and the June VHF, plus FD this year at the VHF station at NFARL without any problems up loading files.  
 
I had to use paper files for the 10-10 mobile event, then put them in text files to submit. BTW  I placed 1st in world in QRP class and 6Th overall in that event, with a score 4 times last years overall winner. Reason I covered that is our group all had to paper log, including  the 5 who finished ahead of me that had 4- 6 times the contacts and counties I did.  All most all of us use N3FJP for contesting and tell the local Atlanta 10-10  chapter members to use it for those events  So we are looking for a logging program for next years 10-10 mobile event, as 6-10 of us plan to go out together next year like the pack rovers in VHF events.  In that event each county you operate from is a unique log to submit because you are an all "new" contact in each county, like new grids for rovers in  VHF events. So far all I have found is WIN10-10 to do it.  and you have to mail the funds snail mail to buy it.   I am looking at Rover Log to see
 if it will handle, or can be made to handle  the 10-10 mobile event.
 
N3FJP software  does a great job  overall, and Scott and Kimberly have been OUTSTANDING!!!!  in their support of and on the yahoo group.  I watched the tech support for a while before I bought the complete software suite for the great price of USD$40.00.   And these are the only two "rubs" I have found so far that have not be addressed, and one of them would be a special program to cover a event that draws less than 100 logs world wide some years.
 
BTW your login codes show up VERY fast after Paypaling funds.  I sent funds in 15 min before the first 10-10 contest and got my login before the contest started! 


73 de Bob,
 
 K4ESA EM74qc
 
Bob Mantell
k4esa at yahoo.com
 

--- On Fri, 7/24/09, Ken Kent <KA2LIM at stny.rr.com> wrote:


From: Ken Kent <KA2LIM at stny.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Fw: [1151282.cq-vhf] K4ESA/R Log submitingwrong??
To: "David Pruett" <k8cc at comcast.net>, "Bob Mantell" <k4esa at yahoo.com>
Cc: N3FJP_Software_Users at yahoogroups.com, VHFcontesting at contesting.com
Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 4:14 AM


You all need to bombard N3FJP with emails asking him to upgrade to Cabrillo
3.0, because when I ask him to do it a year ago, his excuse for not
updateing was: V2.0 is still accepted. And, the sponsors of the contests
need to state what version of Cabrillo the want used.

Ken
KA2LIM

> Bob,
>
> It appears that the robot cannot decipher a Cabrillo 2.0 log.  A year or
> so ago the Cabrillo specification was changed to 3.0, and all of the
> changes affected the "Category" which used to be all on one line in 2.0,
> but are now split up in 3.0.  It appears that N3FJP is partly 2.0 and
> partly 3.0.  A newer version of the N3FJP software may be all that's
needed.
>
> One observation is that the line saying "Rover" should read:
> CATEGORY-STATION: ROVER instead.
>
> The official definitions of the Cabrillo key-words can be found at
> http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/tags.html.
>
> 73, Dave/K8CC
>
>
> Bob Mantell wrote:
> > Why cannot  class me as a rover? The file looks ok going in?
> >
> > Here is a copy of the header and what the robot replied:
> >
> >
> > START-OF-LOG: 2.0
> > CREATED-BY: N3FJP's VHF Contest Log 2.8
> > CONTEST: CQ-VHF
> > CALLSIGN: K4ESA/R
> > CATEGORY: ROVER
> > CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED