[Ham-Mac] Satisfying Contest Robots

[B. Scott Andersen]

Dick,

Congratulations on a great effort and great score.
I agree that these score-eating robots are a
complete pain-in-the-neck!

If you send me your ADIF and Cabrillo file, I'll
see if I can add this contest to Cab-Converter.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cab-converter/

You can contact me off the list if you like at
ne1rd {at} arrl {dot-goes-here} net

Thanks. 73!

-- Scott

> From: Dick Kriss <aa5vu at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [Ham-Mac] Satisfying Contest Robots
>
>
>                     JARTS WW RTTY Contest
> Call: AA5VU
>
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Pts  Mults
> ------------------------
>    80:   11   11     8
>    40:  117  140    30
>    20:  130  185    56
>    15:   77   99    36
>    10:    3    3     2
> ------------------------
> Total:  338  438   132  Total Score = 57,816
>
> Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> Happiness is getting robots to accept contest files.  What PC users  
> take for
> granted can be hard for Mac users.
>
> To score my .log file for the 3830 claimed score web page I had to  
> import my
> log into Excel to total and score the QSOs. It was not hard just time
> consuming.
>
> To satisfy the ARRL LoTW robot all I had to do was follow Bill Coleman
> AA4LR's tip to setup a Mac OSX TQSL preference for the JARTS  
> contest so the
> robot would know where to find the call sign worked in the  
> aa5vu.log file.
> Bill's tip worked FB and the ARRL LoTW confirmation sheet came back  
> with
> note saying it successfully processed 338 QSO records with 108 QSL  
> records
> entered.  The 108 matches will probably go up once additional  
> contest logs
> are uploaded.
>
> Satisfying the LoTW robot was the easy part.  The hard part was  
> getting the
> JARTS-WW-RTTY robot at http://www.kiznax.com/p/jarts/ 
> submit_form.html to
> accept my file.  I had problems with the filename as noted by  
> others and
> "AA5VU-B.CBR" that I started with finally worked.  I used W7AY's  
> Mac OSX
> cocoaModem software for the contest that was not designed for or  
> intended to
> support the JARTS contest logging requirements so I had to manually  
> tweak
> the Cabrillo format to satisfy the robot.   Happiness was getting  
> receiving
> confirmation #355 from the robot and an email note from JH1BIH HIRO
> confirming my call in the database.
>
>
> 73, Dick AA5VU

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