Submitting ARRL logs Simple

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR LOGS to show your desire to keep the contest.

Confused about submitting logs via Email to the ARRL for the VHF/UHF contests?
Don't submit your log because you can't figure out how?
Your in the right place!

After several suggestions to the ARRL on documenting the contents of the Cabrillo logs I decided to document it here in the hopes that it will help someone. Many of the fields are easy to figure out. The CONTESTS: field is not documented anywhere but it should be in the rules in the submission section. You can submit junk at the robot and it should come back and tell you what the right name is. It is kinda dumb if you think of it. When you send to the correct email address it knows what this field should be so why not just fill in it and forget asking us for it.

The september 2008 email address is: SeptemberVHF@arrl.org
This address is also found in the rules for the contest section #8 Submission.

Your subject line should contain your call sign.

Attach your logfile (with the header on top) as a plain text document (notepad for Windows users).

Here is a September cabrillo log header:
START-OF-LOG: 2.0 <-- your program should fill this in.
CREATED-BY: ROVERLOG 2_5_1 <-- your program should fill this in.
ARRL-SECTION: WPA     <-- ARRL SECTION NAME documented here
CONTEST: ARRL_VHF_SEP <-- Not documented anywhere I could find but this is the September contest one.
CALLSIGN: KE3HT/R    <-- your callsign /R if you are a rover.
CATEGORY: ROVER    <-- categories documented in the rules for the contest Section #3, caution, each year this could change.
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP   <-- or MULTI-OP documented in the rules for the contest
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: UNLIMITED    <-- or LIMITED (one transmitter) documented in the rules for the contest
CATEGORY-POWER: HIGH        <-- HIGH or LOW or QRP documented in the rules for the contest
CLAIMED-SCORE: 35497
OPERATORS: KE3HT/R
CLUB:
NAME: Tim Ertl
ADDRESS: 123 somewhere
ADDRESS: Boston, MA 01234
SOAPBOX:

I just helped a first timer, he did not get a reply from the robot. Make sure your Spam Filter lets you see email from SeptemberVHF@arrl.org.