[NLRS] UHF contest logs and results

[W0ZQ at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/22/2009 7:49:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
johnsorj at tcq.net writes: I was not going to submit a log because my results were  so 
weak but now I'll go ahead and get the QSOs into the electronic format and  
submit them--


Ray and all - here are three different ways to submit a log. Much  of the 
following info is from the Leagues web site for contesting, or 
_http://www.arrl.org/contests/fileform.html_ (http://www.arrl.org/contests/fileform.html) 

1)   If you use a software logging program, most of them generate a 
Cabrillo formated  log that you can attached to an email and send to the League.    
RoverLog is one such freeway program, there are others.  The above link  
will get you to the contest specific email address as each contest has their  
own.  The Leagues "Contest Robot" will respond to your submission with  
either a acknowledgement or a list of problems with the log (that then can be  
corrected).  You can write to the contest robot as many times as you wish  as 
each time it writes over your previous submission.

2)  The  Leagues still accepts paper logs.  From their website: "A paper 
submission  must use an up-to-date summary sheet. Please do not use old forms. 
Only the most  current summary sheet will contain the information about the 
latest multipliers,  categories and other changes. Please either type or 
write the information  legibly. Paper logs of 200 QSOs or more must include a 
dupe sheet -- an  alphanumeric list of stations (callsigns) worked, 
separated by band. Paper  entries may be mailed to: ARRL, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 
06111 and must be  postmarked within 30 days after the end of the contest. 
"  Please note that  they DO NOT except a paper print out of an electronic 
produced log (example -  Excel file printout, etc).  Paper forms for the 
various contests can be  download from _http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms/_ 
(http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms/) 
 
3)  If you have a smaller log, they have a nice application tool on  their 
website where you can hand enter your QSO information online post  contest 
and it generates a Cabrillo file for you and submits it .... this  is a great 
way to go for a smaller file post contest.   Here is what  their website 
says on this tool  "If your logging program does not output  the required 
Cabrillo format or if you log by hand, you may submit via special  web 
applications found at: _http://b4h.net/cabforms/_ (http://b4h.net/cabforms/)    These 
 applets allow you to input all of the required information for each 
contest --  both summary sheet information and individual QSO information. Once 
the data  entry is finished, the applet will then submit the entry to the 
proper email  address in the required format. It will also send an email copy to 
you for your  records. Web applet submissions must be completed within 30 
days of the end of  the contest. "
 
 
 
So there are three ways to submit a contest log - submit your logging  
software's Cabrillo file (example - Roverlog), snail mail paper  logs using 
their forms, or use the online applets tool for smaller  logs.
 
Submitting a log is important as it is documented evidence of band  
activity.  As a club, we sent $100 of our money to the ARRL's spectrum  defense 
fund to help defend our bands - sending in a log is free.  
 
And last, there is no such thing as a "weak log" .... one Q or a thousand  
Q's, its still a log and the effort to understand, assemble a station, and  
to establish that one QSO is as equal to the effort that it took to make 
1,000  Q's.   
 
73, Jon
W0ZQ