[NLRS] 222 MHz and Up Logging

Mon Aug 7 22:41:48 EDT 2017

Bill, I saw the same thing as you did with N1MM+. I had only about a third
of my Qs in there at the time when I saw your note, so I exported to ADIF
and imported to the N3FJP VHF logger, which has been updated to handle the
new rules.  I then entered the remaining contacts into N3FJP's post-contest
mode.

One strange behavior in case anyone else uses that logger...the scoring was
all wacky at first (for example, over 500 points for a Q between adjacent
grids). I finally determined that the last 2 characters of the six-digit
grid are case sensitive in N3FJP.

It did not import my own grid from the ADIF, so I had to enter those by
hand. The program will not allow you to enter the last two characters of
the grid in upper case- it forces them to lower case. Unfortunately, it DID
import the entire grid of the other station in UPPER CASE. There's
something funky about the way the scoring logic deals with upper/lower
case. If both sent and received grids were in lower case, OR both were in
upper case, the scoring made sense. If they were not the same case, it
would calculate crazy high scores. I'll send a note to Scott and let him
know. You could never run into that if you used the program normally, since
it forces entry to lower case.

Anyhow, all is well and the log is submitted.  I think I may have failed to
log one of our QSOs somehow...sorry about that. Anyhow, it was a good time.
73 de W0ZF

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> That was stated in the rules so I figgered everyone knew that. What
> wasn't stated in the rules was the name of the contest as entered in
> the Cabrillo file. I had to find that out by entering my log and
> having a pop-up window tell me to select from the following contests
> it listed.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson
> <geraldj at netins.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The other difference is the 6 digit grids, very important when its
> scoring
> > on distance.
> >
> > 73, Jerry, K0CQ
> >
> >
> > On 8/7/2017 4:43 PM, Zack Widup wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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