[WT-support] Win-Test 4.28 Cabrillo log header incorrect for HQ stations?

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

Did you email the log as an attachment, or use the ARRL Log uploader,
http://contest-log-submission.arrl.org/ ?

I would like to see the exact error message that you received from the
robot, and an unmodified copy of file that you first tried to send.

This issue may only apply to HQ stations.  For Cabrillo 2.0 and 3.0, the
specification <https://wwrof.org/cabrillo/cabrillo-specification-v3/>
 requires:

CATEGORY-STATION:  HQ


instead of

CATEGORY-OVERLAY HQ


but perhaps the robot will accept both *if* it sees Cabrillo 3.0 in line 1,
but not Cabrillo 2.0?

Since the robot complained about "Row 1" (perhaps line 1?), I wonder, did
you edit the .LOG file with a text editor before trying to upload it?  If
so, which program did you use to edit it?  Some text editors may insert
binary values (hex EF BB BF) as the first 3 bytes of the file as a File
Signature <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures> to
indicate the file is encoded in "UTF-8", especially if you use "File, Save
as, Text".  Other programs may not do this.  If you used a different editor
to change line 1 to Cabrillo 3.0, that could be the explanation.  The
editor  removed the binary bytes and then the robot was happy.

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Juha Rantanen <rantalaane at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had trouble sending in OH2HQ log to WRTC robot. It was complaining from
> row 1 in cabrillo file. This is what Win-Test 4.28 created which I had to
> manually modify:
>
> START-OF-LOG: 2.0
> CREATED-BY: Win-Test 4.28.0
> CONTEST: IARU-HF
> ARRL-SECTION: DX
> CALLSIGN: OH2HQ
> CATEGORY: MULTI-MULTI ALL HIGH MIXED
> CATEGORY-OVERLAY: HQ
>
>
> The modified and accepted first line was:
>
> START-OF-LOG: 3.0
> CREATED-BY: Win-Test 4.28.0
> ......
>
> Did anyone else experience this?
>
> 73,
> Juha OH6XX
>
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