Original information about Cabrillo format can be found at
http://wwrof.org/cabrillo/
START-OF-LOG: version number
Must be the first line of the log submission. The current version-number is 3.0.
END-OF-LOG:
Must be the last line of the log submission.
CALLSIGN: callsign
The callsign used during the contest.
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: assisted-status
The value or assisted-status must be ASSISTED or NON-ASSISTED and may be specified for any contest.
CATEGORY-BAND: category-band
The value
category-band must be one of the following:
- ALL
- 160M
- 80M
- 40M
- 20M
- 15M
- 10M
- 6M
- 2M
- 222
- 432
- 902
- 1.2G
- 2.3G
- 3.4G
- 5.7G
- 10G
- 24G
- 47G
- 75G
- 122G
- 134G
- 241G
- Light
- VHF-3-BAND and VHF-FM-ONLY
CATEGORY-MODE: category-mode
The value
category-mode must be one of the following:
- CW
- DIGI
- FM
- RTTY
- SSB
- MIXED
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: category-operator
The value
category-operator must be one of the following:
- SINGLE-OP
- MULTI-OP
- CHECKLOG
CATEGORY-POWER: category-power
The value
operator must be one of the following:
CATEGORY-STATION: category-station
The value
category-station must be one of the following:
- DISTRIBUTED
- FIXED
- MOBILE
- PORTABLE
- ROVER
- ROVER-LIMITED
- ROVER-UNLIMITED
- EXPEDITION
- HQ
- SCHOOL
- EXPLORER
CATEGORY-TIME: category-time
The
category-time category is only applicable to the RSGB IOTA Contest and must be of the following.
- 6-HOURS
- 12-HOURS
- 24-HOURS
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: category-transmitter
The
category-transmitter is required for multi-operator entries and must be one of the following.
- ONE
- TWO
- LIMITED
- UNLIMITED
- SWL
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: category-overlay
The
category-overlay of the log submission when appropriate. In CQ-WPX-CW and CQ-WPX-SSB, category overlay may
be combination of ROOKIE, BAND-LIMITED, TB-WIRES. In STEW-PERRY, category overlay may be OVER-50.
- CLASSIC
- ROOKIE
- TB-WIRES
- YOUTH
- NOVICE-TECH
- OVER-50
CERTIFICATE: YES | NO
Indicate if you wish to receive, if eligible, a paper certificate sent via postal mail by the contest sponsor.
The contest sponsor may or may not honor this tag, and if so may or may not use opt-in or opt-out as the default. YES is the default.
CLAIMED-SCORE: claimed-score
The
claimed-score of the log submission, in integer form such as 324242 or 12313.
CLUB: club
Name of the radio club with which the score should be aggregated.
CONTEST: contest-name
String to identify the contest. Valid characters are A-Z, 0-9, and hyphen (-).
Contest text values are not an official part of the specification.
Contest sponsors may define their own contest values.
Some examples listed below for convenience.
The
contest-name could be one of the following.
CREATED-BY: program
Name and version of the logging program used to create the Cabrillo file.
EMAIL: email-address
A place to put an email address, if desired. This field will be ignored by ARRL and CQ email robots, which determine
the email address from the headers of the inbound message.
GRID-LOCATOR: text
Used to indicate the Maidenhead Grid Square where the station was operating from. E.g., FN42EB
IOTA-ISLAND-NAME: iota-island
This tag is only applicable to the RSGB-IOTA contest and should be specified by island stations to indicate
the name of the island they operated from (not the IOTA reference number).
NAME: name
Opertaor's name.
ADDRESS: address
Station address. A maximum of four address lines is permitted.
ADDRESS-CITY: text
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: text
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: text
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: text
LOCATION: location
The value
location could be one of the following:
- ARRL/RAC Section
For USA and Canada stations arrl-section must be the ARRL section abbreviation.
For foreign stations arrl-section must be 'DX'. This information is required for IARU-HF and for all ARRL contests, such as ARRL-10, ARRL-DX-SSB, etc.
- IOTA Island Name
This information is required for RSGB-IOTA contest and includes Island Name (not IOTA reference number).
- RDA Number
This information is required for RDXC contest.
- State/Province
This information is required for CQ-VHF contest.
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: @N6IJ
OFFTIME: begin-time end-time
This tag is used to indicate off-time that must be claimed by single operators in the WAE contest.
-----begin----- ------end------
OFFTIME: date time date time
OFFTIME: yyyy-mm-dd nnnn yyyy-mm-dd nnnn
OFFTIME: 2002-03-22 0300 2002-03-22 0743
0000000001111111111222222222233333333334
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
About on-time and off-time:
QSOs in Cabrillo are logged with a granularity of one minute. The use of one second granularity would lead
to the question "during which exact second did the QSO take place?" or the even stranger idea that QSOs take place instantaneously.
The ARRL has taken the very sensible interpretation that on-time and off-time also should be considered with a
granularity of one minute. In other words, during any given minute you can either be on or off.
Therefore 1801Z-1830Z would be a 30 minute off-time, with 1800Z being your last minute on before the break and 1831Z being the minute you resume operation.
If you make a QSO at 1800Z, take a break, and resume operating at 1830Z, then you have completed a 29 minute off-time.
SOAPBOX: text
Soapbox comments.
QSO: qso-data
QSO data as specified by the
Cabrillo QSO templates.
All QSO lines must appear in chronological order.
X-<anything>: text
Lines beginning with X- are ignored by the robot and log checking software. Use this for adding comment lines to your log. Exception: See X-QSO below.
X-QSO: qso-data
Any QSO marked with this tag will be ignored in your log. Use to mark QSOs made that you do not want to count toward your score.
