Submitting Your Contest Log for MWA
You just finished a contest and the log is sitting on your computer. You may have
even reported your efforts on the reflector - even if it was a part time effort. There's just
one more thing you need to do. That's to submit your log to the organization sponsoring the contest!
As a member of the Minnesota Wireless Association, we really depend on everyone submitting their
logs no matter how small of an effort you put it. Submitting your contest log takes only a minute and
will go a long way toward maintaining MWA in the Upper Echelon of contest clubs in the country.
Here are the steps.
1) Output your contest log in Cabrillo format. The method to do this depends on the logging program
you are using. Check your program documentation and / or help files for Cabrillo file output.
2) Find the Cabrillo file and open it up using a text editor or word processor. You will see some
header information at the top of the file followed by a log of all the contacts you made. Look for a
line that starts with "CLUB". The club that shows up say:
MINNESOTA WIRELESS ASSN
It must be spelled exactly as shown above. Note that "Association" is abbreviated and does not have
a period at the end.
3) Look up the e-mail address for where your log should be sent. The e-mail address for the ARRL
Contests are listed below:
10Meter@arrl.org
160Meter@arrl.org
AugustUHF@arrl.org
DXCW@arrl.org
DXPhone@arrl.org
EMEContest@arrl.org
FieldDay@arrl.org
IARUHF@iaru.org
JanuaryVHF@arrl.org
JuneVHF@arrl.org
RTTYRU@arrl.org
SeptemberVHF@arrl.org
SSCW@arrl.org
SSPhone@arrl.org
StraightKey@arrl.org
For other contests, you can find the e-mail address for sending your log at the following site. Call
up the rules and look for the submittal address.
www.hornucopia.com
4) Format an e-mail message to the correct address shown above. No text is necessary in the message.
Simply attached the CABRILLO file described in Step 2 and send it.
5) In most cases, you will get a confirmation message back from the contest sponsor indicating whether
your log was received correctly. It is a good idea to save this message. If there was problem in you log,
you will be told what needs to be corrected. Make the correction, and resubmit the log as indicated in
steps 1 through 4 above.
6) That's it. Once you've done it a few times, it will become second nature.
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