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Cabrillo Log Format

Cabrillo refers to a universal log submission format created by Trey Garlough, N5KO. The complete specification can be found at http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/.

Most logging programs now support the Cabrillo format. If yours does not, please contact the author to see if there is an upgrade for your logging program available.

The contest log checking and results rely on the information provided by you in the header of the log file.  We are not responsible for errors that are in your submitted files!

The CQ WPX Contest accepts both Cabrillo v2 and v3 format files.  One of the major changes from v2 to v3 was in the way categories are specified.  We strongly request that you submit logs using the Cabrillo v3 format if possible.  The v3 header fields required for the CQ WPX Contest are described below.

Cabrillo File Version 3 Header for the CQ WPX Contest

The format for each entry is <LABEL>: followed by a space.

START-OF-LOG: version-number X.X
Must be the first line of the log submission. The current version-number is 3.0.

END-OF-LOG:
Must be the last line of the log submission.

CALLSIGN: callsign
The callsign used during the contest.

CONTEST: contest-name
The contest-name must be one of the following.

Be sure to use hyphens as shown. DO NOT PUT THE YEAR OR USE PH INSTEAD OF SSB.

CATEGORY-OPERATOR:
The category-operator must be one of the following. (If you do not want your score included in the listings, you must set this field to CHECKLOG.)

CATEGORY-ASSISTED:
The category-assisted must be one of the following.

CATEGORY-MODE:
The category-mode must be one of the following.

CATEGORY-BAND:
The category-band must be one of the following. If you are entering an all band category, use ALL, otherwise select one of the individual bands shown.

CATEGORY-POWER:
The category-power must be one of the following.

CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER:
The category-transmitter is required for multi-operator entries and must be one of the following.

CATEGORY-STATION:
This field is not used by the CQ WPX Contest.

CATEGORY-TIME:
This field is not used by the CQ WPX Contest.

IMPORTANT: If you are entering the Rookie or Tribander-Wires categories, you must also provide CATEGORY-OVERLAY information - see below.

For ROOKIE, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY:  ROOKIE

For TRIBANDER/SINGLE ELEMENT, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY:  TB-WIRES

CLAIMED-SCORE:  n
The claimed-score of the log submission, in integer form such as 1217315 or 19113 or 12. DO NOT USE COMMAS.

CLUB: text
Name of the radio club with which the score should be aggregated. PLEASE SPELL OUT THE CLUB NAME (see list of club names)

CREATED-BY: text
Name and version of the logging program used to create the Cabrillo file. (This field is optional.)

LOCATION: USA and Canada stations please put your ARRL Section. All others please put DX.

EMAIL: text
A place to put an email address, if desired. This field will be ignored by the CQ email robot, which determines the email address from the headers of the inbound message.

NAME: text
ADDRESS: text

Name and address, each line is 75 characters long. A maximum of 4 address lines is permitted.

OPERATORS: callsign1 [callsign2 callsign3...] 
A space-delimited list of operator callsigns for multi operator stations, or single operator entries who wish to show they operated at another station. If you operated at another station, you may list it by prepending an @ sign, e.g., W1ABC, W2DEF, W3GHI @W3BGN. NOTE: If you select a multi-operator category and do not enter operator callsigns in this field,  the robot will reject your log. DO NOT USE COMMAS.

SOAPBOX: text
Enter as many lines of soapbox text as you wish. Each line is 75 characters long and must begin with SOAPBOX: followed by a space.

QSO: qso-data
The qso-data format is shown below. For more details, see the Cabrillo QSO template page.

Cabrillo QSO template for CQ WPX

                              --------info sent------- -------info rcvd--------
QSO: freq  mo date       time call          rst exch   call          rst exch   t
QSO: ***** ** yyyy-mm-dd nnnn ************* nnn ****** ************* nnn ****** n
QSO:  3799 PH 1999-03-06 0711 HC8N          59  001    W1AW          59  001    0
000000000111111111122222222223333333333444444444455555555556666666666777777777788
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901

PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR CABRILLO FILE INCLUDES THIS INFORMATION. ALL LOGS, INCLUDING MULTI-OP MUST INCLUDE BOTH SENT AND RECEIVED SERIAL NUMBERS. MULTI-MULTI STATIONS MUST SHOW THE SERIAL NUMBERS SENT and RECEIVED BY BAND. For the MULTI-TWO category, the last column in the log indicates which transmitter made the QSO, a 0 or a 1.