Contest Notes
What do we Collect in which Contests? (not an all-inclusive list)
Contests where you collect COUNTIES: State and Joint-Region QSO Parties
Contests where you collect STATES: ARRL-10, ARRL-DX-CW, ARRL-DX-SSB, ARRL-RR-CW, ARRL-RR-RTTY, ARRL-RR-SSB, ARRL-RTTY, ARRL-SCR
Contests where you collect ITU ZONES: IARU-HF
Contests where you collect CQ ZONES: CQWW
Contests where you collect SECTIONS: ARRL-160, ARRL-FIELD-DAY, ARRL-SS-CW, ARRL-SS-SSB
Contests where you collect GRID-SQUARES: ARRL-222, ARRL-VHF-JAN, ARRL-VHF-JUN, ARRL-VHF-SEP, CQ-VHF, CQWW-VHF, STEWPERRY
Supported Contest-Types
For this program to function properly, it needs to understand the data that it is being presented with. When talking about imported logs, the program uses the 'CONTEST' tag, which is present in the header of an ADIF or Cabrillo log, to decide how to process each QSO line.
Whilst ADIF logs have each item of a log-line correctly placed in a specific tag, Cabrillo logs depend on correct identification of the log to know where particular types of data will be found. For instance, look at these two Cabrillo template examples:
CONTEST: ARRL-10
--------info sent------- -------info rcvd--------
QSO: freq mo date time call rst exch call rst exch
QSO: ***** ** yyyy-mm-dd nnnn ************* nnn ****** ************* nnn ******
QSO: 28497 PH 1997-12-13 0000 LU6ETB 59 1 NN7NN 59 NV
CONTEST: ARRL-SS-CW
--------info sent------- -------info rcvd--------
QSO: freq mo date time call nr p ck sec call nr p ck sec
QSO: ***** ** yyyy-mm-dd nnnn ********** nnnn a nn aaa ********** nnnn a nn aaa
QSO: 21042 CW 1997-11-01 2102 N5KO 3 B 74 STX K9ZO 2 A 69 IL
It is only by identifying the 'CONTEST' tag that the program can identify the contest exchange-data, that will then be used to plot States, Sections, Counties, or Grid Locators.
These are the values of 'CONTEST' tag that the program recognizes:
These complete QSOPARTY tags: 7QP, FCGFQP, IN7QPNE, MAQP, MARAC, MIDATLANTIC, NEWE, USCQP
or 'xxQP' or 'xx-QSOPARTY', where 'xx' is a state abbreviation or joint-state abbreviation, from the list:
AK, AL, AR, AZ, BC, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MAR, MCC, MD, MDC, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, ON, OR, PA, QC, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV
or these complete contest tags:
ARRL-10, ARRL-160, ARRL-DX-CW, ARRL-DX-SSB, ARRL-FD, ARRL-RTTY, ARRL-SS-CW, ARRL-SS-SSB, ARRL-UHF-AUG, ARRL-VHF-JAN, ARRL-VHF-JUN, ARRL-VHF-SEP, CQ-160-CW, CQ-160-SSB, CQ-WPX-CW, CQ-WPX-RTTY, CQ-WPX-SSB, CQ-VHF, CQ-WW-CW, CQ-WW-RTTY, CQ-WW-SSB, IARU-HF, STEW-PERRY.
Note that Canada RAC, NAQP-CW, NAQP-RTTY, and NAQP-SSB are not included, as I do not currently include a data-set that has all of their multipliers: all 50 US states, including Alaska and Hawaii, the District of Colombia (DC), the 13 Canadian provinces/territories (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland-Labrador, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut) and other North American entities as defined by the ARRL DXCC List.