Non-Compliant Contests

Since the ARRL more or less drove the creation of the Cabrillo Log format standard for their contests, I assume they are 100% compliant. The good news is many contests now also support, and practically beg, their participants to submit their logs in Cabrillo Log format. To this end many have published the Cabrillo parameters they expect in the logs. State QSO party sponsors are particularly notorious for changing and even making up header tags that just don’t exist in the Cabrillo Log specification. We list them here in hopes to help folks fix their event’s Cabrillo Log expectations.

Virginia State QSO Party (Cabrillo v2.0)

  • http://www.qsl.net/sterling/VA_QSO_Party/2008_VQP_Cabrillo.html
  • CATEGORY attribute can’t be SINGLEOP - Must be SINGLE-OP
  • CATEGORY attribute can’t be MULTI­SINGLE - Must be MULTI­-ONE
  • CATEGORY attribute can’t be MULTI­MULTI - Must be MULTI­-MULTI
  • CREATEDBY should be CREATED-BY
  • CLAIMED­SCORE should be CLAIMED­-SCORE
  • QTH is not defined
  • SWL is not defined, but it is addressed in Cabrillo v3.0 in the Category-Transmitter header