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General
Rules | Cabrillo | Codes | Special
Contest Calls | Contesting Guide
Information for Generating Cabrillo
Format Logs For RSGB Contests.
For further information on the Cabrillo format
please visit Trey
N5KO's web site which includes information about the Cabrillo
format for the IOTA Contest.
For anyone wishing to learn a bit more about Cabrillo, you
may like to read A
Cabrillo Primer by Don G3XTT.
A full listing of the Cabrillo format as applied
to RSGB contests.
(All links open in a new window, or use right-click
/ save-as to download the example logs to HD)
Cabrillo
QSO template for RSGB-AFS-CW, RSGB-AFS-SSB, RSGB-NFD, RSGB-SSB-FD,
RSGB-80M-CC.
Cabrillo
QSO template for RSGB-160, RSGB-COMMONWEALTH, RSGB-LOW-POWER,
RSGB-IOTA,
RSGB-21/28-SSB, RSGB-21/28-CW
Cabrillo
QSO template for RSGB-ROPOCO.
Cabrillo
QSO template for RSGB Club Calls Contest
Header Descriptions.
- START-OF-LOG: version-number
Must be the first line of the log submission. The current
version-number is 2.0.
- END-OF-LOG:
Must be the last line of the log submission.
- CALLSIGN:
callsign
The callsign used during the contest.
- CATEGORY: operator-category
[mode-category] [power-category]
For HF contests the operator-category must be one of the
following:
SINGLE-OP, MULTI-OP, SWL, or CHECKLOG.
The mode-category must be CW, SSB or MIXED and applies only
to RSGB-IOTA.
In the RSGB-80M-CC contests the mode-category must be CW,
SSB or DATA and
the power-category must be LOW or QRP.
- CATEGORY-ASSISTED:
[assisted-status]
The value or assisted-status must be ASSISTED or NON-ASSISTED.
This tag applies only to RSGB-IOTA.
- CATEGORY-DXPEDITION:
[dxpedition-status]
The value dxpedition-status must be DXPEDITION or NON-DXPEDITION.
This tag applies only to RSGB-IOTA.
- CATEGORY-OVERLAY: [category-overlay...]
The category overlay of the log submission as follows:
(RSGB-NFD, RSGB-21/28-SSB, RSGB-21/28-CW) - OPEN, RESTRICTED,
or QRP.
(RSGB-COMMONWEALTH) - OPEN, RESTRICTED, or HQ.
(RSGB-SSB-FD) - OPEN or RESTRICTED.
(RSGB-LOW-POWER) - 10W FIXED, 10W PORTABLE, 3W FIXED or
3W PORTABLE.
- CATEGORY-TIME: time-category
The time category is only applicable to
the RSGB IOTA Contest and must be either 12-HOURS or 24-HOURS.
- CLAIMED-SCORE: n
The claimed-score of the log submission, in integer form
such as 1217315 or 19113 or 12.
- CLUB: text
Name of the radio club with which the score should be aggregated.
This tag is required for RSGB-AFS-CW, RSGB-AFS-SSB and RSGB-80M-CC.
It is also required for RSGB-CLUB-CALLS unless CLUB-OVERLAY
is NONE.
- CLUB-OVERLAY: text
This tag is only applicable to the RSGB-CLUB-CALLS contest
and must be specified as CLUB STATION, MEMBER or NONE.
- CONTEST: contest-name
The contest-name must be one of the following: RSGB-AFS-CW,
RSGB-AFS-SSB, RSGB-160, RSGB-COMMONWEALTH, RSGB-80M-CC,
RSGB-ROPOCO, RSGB-NFD, RSGB-LOW-POWER, RSGB-SSB-FD, RSGB-21/28-SSB,
RSGB-21/28-CW, RSGB-CLUB-CALLS
- CREATED-BY: text
Name and version of the logging program
used to create the Cabrillo file.
- IOTA-ISLAND-NAME:
text
This tag is only applicable to the RSGB-IOTA contest and
should be speficied by island stations to indicate the name
of the island they operated from (not the IOTA reference
number).
- NAME: text
- ADDRESS: text
Name and address.
- OPERATORS: callsign1
[callsign2 callsign3...]
A space-delimited list of operator callsign(s). You may
also list the callsign of the host station by placing an
"@" caracter in front of the callsign within the
operator list, such as OPERATORS: @G4MRS
- SOAPBOX: text
Soapbox comments. Please include information about antennas
and equipment used.
- QSO: qso-data
Header Explanation.
- freq:
Integer frequency in kHz; if freq not known
then 28000, 21000, 14000, 7000, 3500, 1800
- mo:
CW, PH, RY or PS
- date:
UTC date in yyyy-mm-dd form
- time:
UTC time in nnnn form
- call:
callsign
- rst:
RST
- t:
transmitter id 0 or 1 (used in the RSGB-IOTA
multi-op category)
- nr:
Serial number
- ex1:
Postcode in Ropoco
- ex2:
Two-letter district code in 1.8 and 21/28
contests; 'HQ' for headquarters stations in Commonwealth
contest; IOTA reference number in RSGB-IOTA, of form aa-nnn
for island stations; Power in Low Power contest, two or
three characters as received; 'MEMBER', 'CLUB' or 'NONE'
in Club Calls Contest. Filled with hyphens if no other info.
sent, e.g. '------' for non-island stations in RSGB-IOTA
- ex3:
Name of club received in Club Calls contest
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