[WriteLog] CQ WW 160 CW - Robot Problem - Writelog

[Al Burnham (K6RIM)]

To 160 M CW Contesters using Writelog:

Usually, my contest submissions to robots are quick, easy, and no problem.

Not so with CQ WW 160 CW, and the reasons were:

1.  The correct e-mail address to send your log is: 160cw at kkn.net (there 
was a lot of wrong info about the address).

2.  In your Cabrillo submission, the category should NOT contain the word 
"CW" ("CW" is automatically inserted into the Cabrillo log by the Writelog 
software and, apparently this causes a problem).

3. Here is the real bugger:  In your Cabrillo submission, your ARRL Section 
should be shown as your state ... in my case, CA.  There were a couple of 
problems here: (1) When creating the Cabrillo file in Writelog, CA was not 
an available choice.  My ARRL section is SF, so that is what I chose.  Of 
course, this is not an ARRL contest.  Once I made the change in No. 2, 
above, and ALSO changed my section to CA, the robot (finally!) accepted my 
log.

Conclusions:

A. Writelog needs to be modified to deal with No. 2 and 3, above.
B. The robot needs to give an error message to indicate "wrong 
section."  My error report indicated that there was a problem with my 
category, but mentioned nothing about my section being in error.

73,

Al, K6RIM

Albert C. Burnham
409 Summit Drive
Corte Madera, CA 94925

Phone: (415) 924-6783
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