CQ World Wide DX Contest
CQ World Wide DX Contest
Cabrillo refers to a universal log file format managed by the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF). Cabrillo is the required format for CQ WW DX Contest logs.
There are two versions of the Cabrillo log file format. The CQ WW DX Contest accepts both Cabrillo v2 and v3 format files. One of the major changes from v2 to v3 was in the way categories are specified. We strongly request that you submit logs using the Cabrillo v3 format if possible.
Below is an example of a Cabrillo v3 file for the CQ WW DX Contest.
START-OF-LOG: 3.0 CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB CALLSIGN: AA1ZZZ LOCATION: WMA CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED CATEGORY-BAND: ALL CATEGORY-POWER: HIGH CATEGORY-MODE: PH CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE CATEGORY-OVERLAY: GRID-LOCATOR: CLAIMED-SCORE: 9447852 CLUB: Yankee Clipper Contest Club CREATED-BY: WriteLog V10.72C NAME: Randy Thompson ADDRESS: 1 Main St ADDRESS-CITY: Uxbridge ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: MA ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 01569 ADDRESS-COUNTRY: USA OPERATORS: K5ZD SOAPBOX: Put your comments here. SOAPBOX: Use multiple lines if needed. QSO: 3799 PH 2000-10-26 0711 AA1ZZZ 59 05 K9QZO 59 04 0 QSO: 14256 PH 2000-10-26 0711 AA1ZZZ 59 05 P29AS 59 28 0 QSO: 21250 PH 2000-10-26 0711 AA1ZZZ 59 05 4S7TWG 59 22 0 QSO: 28530 PH 2000-10-26 0711 AA1ZZZ 59 05 JT1FAX 59 23 0 QSO: 7250 PH 2000-10-26 0711 AA1ZZZ 59 05 WA6MIC 59 03 0 END-OF-LOG:
The format for each line is <KEY>: followed by a space, then data.
START-OF-LOG: version-number X.X
Must be the first line of the log submission. This file is version 3.0.
CALLSIGN: callsign
The callsign used during the contest.
CONTEST: contest-name
The contest-name must be one of the following.
Be sure to use hyphens as shown. DO NOT PUT THE YEAR OR USE PH INSTEAD
OF SSB.
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: text
The category-operator must be one of the following.
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: text
The category-assisted must be one of the following.
CATEGORY-MODE: text
The category-mode must be one of the following.
CATEGORY-BAND: text
The category-band must be one of the following. If you are entering an all
band category, use ALL, otherwise select one of the individual bands shown.
CATEGORY-POWER: text
The category-power must be one of the following.
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: text
The category-transmitter is required for multi-operator entries and must
be one of the following.
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: text
NOTE: If you are entering an Overlay category, you must also provide CATEGORY-OVERLAY information - see below. If you are not entering an Overlay category, do not include this line or leave blank.
For CLASSIC, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: CLASSIC
For ROOKIE, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: ROOKIE
For YOUTH, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: YOUTH
CERTIFICATE: text
Indicate whether or not you wish to receive, if eligible, a paper certificate
sent via postal mail. YES is the default.
GRID-LOCATOR: aann or aannbb
Used to indicate the Maidenhead Grid Square of the station location.
E.g., JO15 or FN42EB (This field is optional.)
CLAIMED-SCORE: integer
The claimed-score of the log submission, in integer form such as 1217315
or 19113 or 12. Do not include commas or other text.
CLUB: text
Name of the radio club with which the score should be aggregated. PLEASE
SPELL OUT THE FULL CLUB NAME! (See list of club names.)
CREATED-BY: text
Name and version of the logging program used to create the Cabrillo file.
(This field is optional.)
LOCATION: text
USA and Canada stations please put your State, Province, or ARRL Section.
All others please put DX. (See list of accepted
entries.)
EMAIL: text
A place to put an email address where we can contact you if there is a question
about your log. This field is optional.
NAME: text
Name. Maximum of 75 characters long.
ADDRESS: text
Mailing address, each line should be a maximum of 45 characters long. Up
to 6 address lines are permitted.
ADDRESS-CITY: text
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: text
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: text
Optional fields for providing mailing address details.
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: text
US Postal Service name for the country of your mailing address. Only required
for mailing addresses outside of the United States. (See
list of accepted country names.)
OPERATORS: callsign1 [callsign2 callsign3...]
A space-delimited list of operator callsigns for multi operator stations,
or single operator entries who wish to show they operated at another station.
If you operated at another station, you may list it by prepending an @ sign,
e.g., W1ABC, W2DEF, W3GHI @W3BGN. NOTE: If you select a multi-operator
category and do not enter operator callsigns in this field, the robot will
reject your log. Please use a space or a comma between the operator
calls.
SOAPBOX: text
Enter as many lines of soapbox text as you wish. Each line is a maximum
of 75 characters long and must begin with SOAPBOX: followed by a space.
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.
QSO: qso-data
The qso-data format is shown below.
--------info sent------- -------info rcvd--------
QSO: freq mo date time call rst exch call rst exch t
QSO: ***** ** yyyy-mm-dd nnnn ************* nnn ****** ************* nnn ****** n
QSO: 3799 PH 2000-11-26 0711 N6TW 59 03 JT1Z 59 23 0
000000000111111111122222222223333333333444444444455555555556666666666777777777788
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901
Note for Column 81 (transmitter number): For the MULTI-ONE and MULTI-TWO categories, the last column in the log indicates which transmitter made the QSO. It must be a 0 or a 1. This column is not required for other categories.
Note: The CQ WW log checking software uses spaces for delimiters between fields. It is not necessary for all columns to line up in the columns shown above.
X-QSO: qso-data
Any QSO marked with this key will be ignored in your log and credit will
be given to the other station.
END-OF-LOG:
Must be the last line of the log submission.
Here is an example of a Cabrillo v2 file for the WW Contest. Use of Cabrillo v2 is deprecated, but still accepted by the log submission robot.
START-OF-LOG: 2.0
CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB
ARRL-SECTION: WMA
CALLSIGN: AA1ZZZ
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: ROOKIE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 12345
CLUB: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
CREATED-BY: WriteLog V10.72C
NAME: John Smith
ADDRESS: 100 Main St
ADDRESS-CITY: Uxbridge
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: MA
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 01569
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: USA
OPERATORS: [required for multi-op stations]
SOAPBOX: Put your comments here.
SOAPBOX: Use multiple lines if needed.
QSO: 3799 PH 2000-10-26 0711 AA1ZZZ 59 05 K9QZO 59 04 0
QSO: 14256 PH 2000-10-26 0711 AA1ZZZ 59 05 P29AS 59 28 0
QSO: 21250 PH 2000-10-26 0711 AA1ZZZ 59 05 4S7TWG 59 22 0
QSO: 28530 PH 2000-10-26 0711 AA1ZZZ 59 05 JT1FAX 59 23 0
QSO: 7250 PH 2000-10-26 0711 AA1ZZZ 59 05 WA6MIC 59 03 0
END-OF-LOG:
The format for each line is <KEY>: followed by a space, then data.
START-OF-LOG: version-number X.X
Must be the first line of the log submission. This file is version 2.0.
CALLSIGN: call sign
The call sign used during the contest.
CONTEST: contest-name
The contest-name must be one of the following.
Be sure to use hyphens as shown. DO NOT PUT THE YEAR OR USE PH INSTEAD
OF SSB.
CATEGORY: operator-category band-category power-category [mode-category]
The operator-category must be one of the following. (If you do not want your score included in the listings, you must set this field to CHECKLOG.)
The band-category must be one of the following:
The power-category must be one of the following.
The mode-category must be one of the following.
Examples for CATEGORY:
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CW
This is a single operator, all band, high power, CW entry.
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 80M LOW SSB
This is a single operator assisted, 80 meters single band, low power, SSB
entry.
This is the list of categories the robot will accept for a Cabrillo v2 log. This will assure we get your category correct.
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 160M HIGH CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 80M HIGH CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 40M HIGH CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 20M HIGH CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 15M HIGH CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M HIGH CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 160M LOW CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 80M LOW CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 40M LOW CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 20M LOW CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 15M LOW CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M LOW CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL QRP CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 160M QRP CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 80M QRP CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 40M QRP CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 20M QRP CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 15M QRP CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M QRP CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 160M CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 80M CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 40M CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 20M CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 15M CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 10M CATEGORY: MULTI-ONE HIGH CATEGORY: MULTI-ONE LOW CATEGORY: MULTI-TWO CATEGORY: MULTI-MULTI CATEGORY: CHECKLOG
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: text
NOTE: If you are entering one of the Overlay categories, you must also provide CATEGORY-OVERLAY information - see below. If you are not entering an Overlay category, do not include this line or leave blank.
For CLASSIC, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: CLASSIC
For ROOKIE, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: ROOKIE
For YOUTH, enter:
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: YOUTH
CERTIFICATE: text
Indicate whether or not you wish to receive, if eligible, a paper certificate
sent via postal mail. YES is the default.
GRID-LOCATOR: aann or aannbb
Used to indicate the Maidenhead Grid Square of the station location.
E.g., JO15 or FN42EB (This field is optional.)
CLAIMED-SCORE: integer
The claimed-score of the log submission, in integer form such as 1217315
or 19113 or 12. Do not include commas or other text.
CLUB: text
Name of the radio club with which the score should be aggregated. PLEASE
SPELL OUT THE CLUB NAME! (See list of club names.)
CREATED-BY: text
Name and version of the logging program used to create the Cabrillo file.
(This field is optional.)
ARRL-SECTION: arrl-section
USA and Canada stations please put your State, Province, or ARRL Section.
All others please put DX. (See list of accepted
entries.)
EMAIL: text
A place to put an email address, if desired.
NAME: text
Name. Maximum of 75 characters long.
ADDRESS: text
Mailing address, each line should be a maximum of 45 characters long. Up
to 6 address lines are permitted.
Please put the country name all alone on the last address line using the US Postal Service name for the country of your mailing address. Only required for mailing addresses outside of the United States. (See list of accepted country names.)
OPERATORS: callsign1 [callsign2 callsign3...]
A space-delimited list of operator callsigns for multi operator stations,
or single operator entries who wish to show they operated at another station.
If you operated at another station, you may list it by prepending an @ sign,
e.g., W1ABC, W2DEF, W3GHI @W3BGN. NOTE: If you select a multi-operator
category and do not enter operator callsigns in this field, the log may be
rejected. Please use a space or a comma between the operator calls.
SOAPBOX: text
Enter as many lines of soapbox text as you wish. Each line is a maximum
of 75 characters long and must begin with SOAPBOX: followed by a space.
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.
QSO: qso-data
The qso-data format is shown below.
--------info sent------- -------info rcvd--------
QSO: freq mo date time call rst exch call rst exch t
QSO: ***** ** yyyy-mm-dd nnnn ************* nnn ****** ************* nnn ****** n
QSO: 3799 PH 2000-11-26 0711 N6TW 59 03 JT1Z 59 23 0
000000000111111111122222222223333333333444444444455555555556666666666777777777788
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901
Note for Column 81 (transmitter number): For the MULTI-ONE and MULTI-TWO categories, the last column in the log indicates which transmitter made the QSO. It must be a 0 or a 1. This column is not required for other categories.
X-QSO: qso-data
Any QSO marked with this key will be ignored in your log and credit will
be given to the other station.
END-OF-LOG:
Must be the last line of the log submission.
The CQ WW Contest only recognizes the Cabrillo fields shown on this page. The complete Cabrillo specification can be found at http://wwrof.org/cabrillo/.