K5ZD announcements

New WPX Cabrillo Log Check Page

I am pleased to announce a new tool to help everyone format their logs correctly for the WPX Contest.

http://www.cqwpx.com/logcheck/

The Cabrillo Log Check page will check the format of your Cabrillo log file for any mode of the CQ WPX Contest. Use this to check your log before submitting it to the robot.

1. Select the contest mode from the list.
2. Browse to the log file on your computer.
3. Press process to upload the file and start the check.
4. Fix any errors in your log file and repeat. You may go through the process as many times as needed.

Once your log is error free, please email it to the robot address shown.

The new page supports CQ WPX RTTY, SSB, and CW. Logs can be in Cabrillo v2 or v3 format.

I invite as many people as possible to try a test log in the next few days. Looking for any suggestions or problem reports so that we can fix them before the WPX RTTY contest this weekend.

I want to specially thank Tzetzo, LZ2FQ, for his work on the programming that makes this page possible.

K5ZD results

WPX SSB 2010 Results now Online

The results of the 2010 CQ WPX SSB Contest are now available on the CQ WPX Web site. Visitors can read the results article from CQ Magazine and search through the online score database. Check out the score records, which have also been updated.

Results http://www.cqwpx.com/results.htm

Online score database (with online certificates) http://www.cqwpx.com/score_db.htm

It was another record year for WPX SSB entries with almost 700 more logs than 2009.  All logs can be viewed at http://www.cqwpx.com/publiclogs/2010ph/

Log checking reports have been sent by email to everyone who submitted a log.  If you did not receive yours, please contact k5zd@cqwpx.com.

Paper certificates have been mailed to all category winners.  Plaques will be going out in the coming weeks.

Thanks again to everyone who participated and submitted a log. Can’t wait to see what better conditions will bring for both activity and log submissions this year. The WPX SSB Contest will be filling the HF bands with activity March 26-27, 2011. 

K5ZD announcements

Log Checking Reports for WPX SSB 2010

Everyone who submitted a log for the 2010 CQ WPX SSB Contest should have received an email with a link to their log checking report. The link uses an encrypted address so that only you will have access to your report. (You are welcome to share the link with others.)

The log check report is a text file that contains all the information about how your log was scored and any errors that were found. Sections include:

  • Scoring summary by band
  • List of calls not found in the other station’s log (Not in Log)
  • List of calls that were cross checked or judged to be incorrect (Bad calls)
  • List of calls that only you worked that were not removed from your log (Uniques)
  • Additional sections may list operating time or band change violations if they exist.

To provide additional feedback on your operation, the report also includes information on how your exchange and call was received by others.

  • List of stations that did not copy your exchange information correctly
  • List of stations that did not copy your call correctly

It can be shocking to see a log check report for the first time. Everyone makes errors.  The best ops have spent years improving their skills and learning a vocabulary of callsigns.  Study your errors and work to improve them in the next contest. 

To help you compare your results to those of top scorers, we have made a few log check reports public (including my own).

Note: Your browser may ask you if you want to download the file.  Select yes.  Then use any text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad to view the file.

Your email with link to the log checking report was sent to the email account you used to submit the log. If you included an email address in the EMAIL: field of your Cabrillo log file we sent one to that as well.  Using a valid email address to submit your log (or provide one in the log file) is very important.  We use that address if we need to contact you about your entry.

If you did not receive an email and would like to see your report please contact me at k5zd@cqwpx.com.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2010 CQ WPX SSB Contest.  Looking forward to seeing all of you in the WPX SSB contest March 26-27, 2011.

Thanks to David, K2DSL, for the programming work to make the log check report viewer and email sender.  Also thanks to George, K5TR, for his expert IT support assistance.  And of course, to Ken, K1EA, for the software that checks the logs and makes the reports.