[VHFcontesting] Cabrillo mode for a JT65 QSO??

[David Pruett]

Ken,

PSK is not a legitimate Cabrillo mode.  According to the published 
Cabrillo 3.0 specification on the WWROF site, these are the only 
legitimate Cabrillo modes:

CW
PH
FM
RY

Based on this, even W5ZN's suggestion to show it as SSB (which was 
almost certainly the mode your transceiver was set for) doesn't comply.

As some have suggested, the mode is not a scoring parameter in the ARRL 
VHF contest, so perhaps it doesn't matter.  In the end,  it all boils 
down to what the ARRL contest robot and the logchecker will accept.

If it were me, I would do like K7CW suggested and change it to RY.  Then 
there can be no argument that it is legitimate Cabrillo data 
representing a digital mode QSO.

73, Dave/K8CC

On 6/19/2015 10:27 AM, Kenneth Silverman wrote:
> We made some JT65 EME QSOs in the June VHF contest.  Is there a correct
> mode to use, or is mode irrelevant?  We currently have it marked as PSK.
>
> Many thanks, Kenny K2KW - C6ATA in the contest.
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