An open letter from the CQWW Contest Committee NOTE: [You are encouraged to duplicate and repost this message. It may be duplicated in PRINT, and it may be posted to any Web Page. We encourage you to be creative in passing it along to as many other interested parties as possible. Language translation will be especially appreciated!] SENDING IN YOUR LOG 1996 was the first year that we accepted electronically submitted (Email) logs, and we are very pleased with the results. We received 1224 individual log files on SSB and about 1100 on CW! However, 2000 logs (both modes), which were generated by computer, were submitted on paper only. PLEASE send a disk or Email entry if you use a computer. It is much easier for you to send us a disk or Email type submission than to send us paper. So PLEASE, if you use a computer to do your log, send us the FILES, not the paper. E-mailing is so easy and so inexpensive, there is no reason not to use it. Even if your log has less than 100 contacts, if you used contest software of any type, send us the file electronically! Our goal is to have every entrant who used a computer to do their logging, send in a log file. HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR LOG This year we are changing the preferred type of file which we would like to receive. We greatly prefer to receive a plain text, ASCII file of your log. Acceptable ASCII formats include: CT software=yourcall.ALL; TR software=yourcall.DAT; Other fixed-column ASCII formats are acceptable. In case you're not sure just what this is, it is the file that LOOKS exactly like a printed log; it has lots of columns including one for DATE, TIME, QSO NUMBER BY BAND, CALLSIGN, FREQ, EXCHANGE, NEW MULTS, POINTS, etc., and each qso takes up one line. We require TWO files for every electronic submission: 1. A plain-text ASCII summary sheet, and 2. Your actual log of callsigns, bands, times, etc. Be sure to NAME your files using your callsign. The summary sheet can be named: YOURCALL.SUM while the log itself can be named: YOURCALL.all or YOURCALL.dat, etc., depending on the type of file you send. Be sure to actually use your callsign and not the words, "yourcall." Eg: If your call is XZ1A, you would name your file XZ1A.all or XZ1A.dat. It is important to keep the correct SUFFIX (after the "dot"). CT uses .all and TR uses .dat. All types of ASCII files can be sent using regular Email. If you want to Email in your binary (bin) file instead of your ASCII file, you need to encode it first. We will accept encoded binary files. All popular encoding schemes are acceptable to Email your file, including UUencode, Base64, and BinHex. Acceptable binary formats are NA: yourcall.QDF; CT: yourcall.bin. If this is too confusing and you have a question, send your Email questions to: questions@cqww.com REMEMBER, we PREFER to receive the ASCII output files, NOT the binary files. For ALL types of submissions, be sure to put the MODE and the station CALLSIGN as the SUBJECT for each entry. When you send in your log, it should automatically be acknowledged by the server. If we have trouble reading your file, we may ask you to send a disk. Submit your 1997 CQWW SSB log files to: ssb@cqww.com Submit your 1997 CQWW CW log files to: cw@cqww.com Submit any questions, at any time, to: questions@cqww.com Remember... 1) We prefer ASCII files, NOT binary files. 2) Name the file using YOUR CALLSIGN! (Eg: KR2Q.all or KR2Q.dat or KR2Q.bin) 3) Send in a SUMMARY SHEET file (yourcall.sum) along with #2 (above). 4) Use YOUR CALLSIGN and MODE (cw or ssb) for the SUBJECT (Eg.: KR2Q SSB). 5) Ssb and cw logs go to SEPARATE addresses (see above)! Do NOT send both cw and ssb together! 6) The E-domain [cqww.com] is for the CQWW DX contest only (Oct/Nov)...not the WPX, not the CQ-160, and not any ARRL contests. You may forward any questions to me (KR2Q) at: DougKR2Q@aol.com Or, you may directly contact the Contest Director (K3EST) at: K3EST@netcom.com de Doug (KR2Q) for the CQWW Contest Committee -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com - - - - - Dear Contesters: As the CQWW contest approaches, I urge everyone to check out the NEW RULES and NEW REQUESTED METHOD for submitting logs. The CQWW 1997 RULES can be found at: http://www.affcom.com/cqcontest/cqwwruls.htm The latest (1997) instructions on how to submit your Email log or send in a disk, can be found at: http://www.affcom.com/cqcontest/howtoeml.htm ALSO...Please do not REMOVE (that is erase, delete, or edit out) duplicate contacts from your log. THIS IS A VIOLATION OF THE RULES. Mark duplicate qso's as DUPE or DUPLICATE and apply zero points, but do NOT take the qso out of your log! >From THE RULES, Section XI. paragraph 4, I quote: 4. Logs must be checked for duplicated contacts, correct QSO points and multipliers. Submitted logs must have duplicate contacts CLEARLY SHOWN. [emphasis added] Good Luck es CU in the contest! de Doug KR2Q -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com - - - - - Hi contesters.... After the recent post on the reflector, suggesting that readers check out the 1997 CQWW RULES and the comment about DUPLICATE CONTACTS, I received this memo which I felt had wide applicability. Here is the question and answer: << In a message dated 97-10-14 01:17:05 EDT, Dick, K6KR wrote: < Good change, thanks for making it clear for those misguided souls that feel compelled to submit a "clean" log. I do have one query: When operating multi-single I have found myself infrequently in violation of the 10-minute rule. My practice was to remove the offending QSO(s) from the log and then submit a "check log" of those removed QSOs. This was done primarily because I was lazy and wanted CT to score the log. Is that now prohibited as well? > Hi! First, the CLEARLY MARK DUPLICATES is NOT a new rule! It has been there since the inception of the contest, but not too many people read the fine print! :-) As for the 10 minute rule, you can continue to do as you have been doing and that will be completely acceptable. As a possible alternative, and since we now want your log in ASCII format-not a binary file, you can't simply EDIT those contacts yourself and leave them in the original IF YOU WANT TO. If you do, just make a note (via the edit function) that "this qso doesn't count" or "ignore this qso" or something like that, AND, be sure to mark the qso points as ZERO and to correct your page and grand totals for points, and, of course, recalculate the final score. This is a GOOD question! Good Luck in the contest! de Doug KR2Q for the CQWW Contest Committee >> -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com - - - - - Hi Contesters....I sent this CORRECTION out from AOL over 24 hours ago, but apparently it is lost in AOL-land somewhere. Here it is again. If you got it, sorry for the repost...it never got back to me! de Doug KR2Q << Subj: CORRECTION: CQWWCC answers your questions #2 Date: 97-10-14 22:36:00 EDT From: Doug KR2Q To: cq-contest@contesting.com There was a MAJOR error in the first post of this message...please read this again and note the correction marked by the double stars (**). Sorry for the inconvenience. de Doug KR2Q << Subj: CQWWCC answers your questions #2 Date: 97-10-14 15:08:03 EDT From: Doug KR2Q To: cq-contest@contesting.com Hi contesters.... After the recent post on the reflector, suggesting that readers check out the 1997 CQWW RULES and the comment about DUPLICATE CONTACTS, I received this memo which I felt had wide applicability. Here is the question and answer: << In a message dated 97-10-14 01:17:05 EDT, Dick, K6KR wrote: < Good change, thanks for making it clear for those misguided souls that feel compelled to submit a "clean" log. I do have one query: When operating multi-single I have found myself infrequently in violation of the 10-minute rule. My practice was to remove the offending QSO(s) from the log and then submit a "check log" of those removed QSOs. This was done primarily because I was lazy and wanted CT to score the log. Is that now prohibited as well? > Hi! First, the CLEARLY MARK DUPLICATES is NOT a new rule! It has been there since the inception of the contest, but not too many people read the fine print! :-) As for the 10 minute rule, you can continue to do as you have been doing and that will be completely acceptable. As a possible alternative, and since we now want your log in ASCII format-not a binary file, you **CAN** simply EDIT those contacts yourself and leave them in the original IF YOU WANT TO. If you do, just make a note (via the edit function) that "this qso doesn't count" or "ignore this qso" or something like that, AND, be sure to mark the qso points as ZERO and to correct your page and grand totals for points, and, of course, recalculate the final score. This is a GOOD question! Good Luck in the contest! de Doug KR2Q for the CQWW Contest Committee >> >> -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com - - - - - Dear Contesters: In an effort to "improve" catching logs that may be listed "in the wrong zone or call area," the CQWWCC respectfully requests that you include the portable indicator ON YOUR SUMMARY SHEET when entering your callsign! This means writing/entering your callsign as YOURCALL/your actual call area. Eg: K3EST/6 No, we don't want you actually SIGNING your call as "K3EST portable 6" or "K3EST/6" unless you want to. Of course, if your call is "N6AA portable 1A0", then SIGNING the portable part would probably make sense. :-) Anyhow, the biggest problem encountered in getting everyone into the correct call area is that K3EST might list his CALLSIGN as K3EST but only list his qth as Davis, California in the ADDRESS area of the summary sheet. If we forget to glance down at the ADDRESS, we will miss your REAL zone/call area. So PLEASE put your callsign down as PORTABLE in the proper call area, even though that may NOT have been the way you actually signed your call during the contest. With sincere thanks, de Doug KR2Q for the CQWW Contest Committee DougKR2Q@aol.com -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com