[NLRS] 222 MHz and Up Logging

[Zack Widup]

The only significant difference is the name of the contest. That line
should say ARRL-222. Make sure you choose from the available
categories for this contest (e.g. there are no Portable categories).

73, Zack W9SZ


On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson
<geraldj at netins.net> wrote:
>
>
> I have been making cabrillo logs manually for some years. You can download
> an example cabrillo template from ARRL.ORG though I don't know about for
> this 222 distance contest. I use an ancient text editor, Wordstar 4.0 (for
> DOS but I use it on OS/2) in non document mode so it doesn't fix excess
> spaces and excess line lengths or insert CR/LF where it thinks they should
> be. I also set it to not INSERT but to only replace characters. That should
> be as possible in old windoze WordPad or NotePad, preferable NotePad. Then I
> copy the template to a new file k0cqjvhf7.log and edit that replacing the
> template calls, times, grids, dates, and station class. Then the next year I
> use last year's log for the template and its amazing how many times the
> calls come in the same order as last year.
>
> I won't be sending in a log for 222 this year, despite 9 hours or so
> operating time at home and roving to eastern Iowa, I made no contacts so
> have nothing to report and Cabrillo doesn't have separate data for operating
> time, if figures operating time from the contacts reported.
>
> I haven't seen a definition of Cabrillo format specifying the column order
> but that is in the template or the number of spaces between columns or
> whether a particular column must start in the same place. There is enough
> gap after call sign columns to take a kx9sss/r call sign and after the grids
> to take a 6 digit grid, if the robot understands 6 digit grids. So I'd take
> your N1MM+ Cabrillo and edit it to put in the 6 digit grids and try to
> submit that.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
>
> On 8/6/2017 5:25 PM, W. S. Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>    I logged the 222 contest on paper, and have transferred the log to
>> an ARRL AUG UHF contest in a fully-updated N1MM+.  However, it is
>> clear that although N1MM+ documentation acknowledges the changes to
>> the contest, there is no change to the internal scoring (and,
>> critically, no export of 6-digit rover grid with the Cabrillo file).
>> Is there something here I'm missing---is anyone getting the contest
>> properly logging and exporting in N1MM+?  I'd rather not re-enter my
>> 55 QSOs.
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Bill
>> AE0EE/R EN34ix
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