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Explanations for the managers of this contest. They are also under Account › Guides, as PDF or Markdown to take away.
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For all logs that reach you, say by email: drop any number of Cabrillo files or ZIPs here at once. Callsign, category and DOK come from the file. If there is already a log for the same station in the same category, it gets replaced; the exact same file a second time is recognised and skipped.
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Cross-checks all valid logs against each other and works out points, places and club scoring. The results only go public once you set the status to provisional or final. A new run replaces the previous one.
All findings of the last scoring run, per category, including the waived ones. A unique is a station worked that didn't send a log and isn't in any other log, usually a miscopied callsign. Callsigns only count if they were issued on the day of the contest. Contacts whose other station simply didn't send a log aren't errors and are left out here. Whether a contact counts is up to you, right in the list (pencil in the Scoring column, with a reason); waiving and correcting is done in the log, which opens when you click the entrant.
Stations worked that appear in only one log and didn't send a log themselves. Often that's a miscopied callsign. The cross-check only spots a typo if the intended station has the entrant in its log at the same time; if the wrong callsign really exists or the intended station didn't send a log, it stays a unique. That's why similar callsigns from this contest are listed alongside: first those who have the entrant in their log around that time, then those who were on the same band, then those that differ least. Clicking a suggestion corrects the callsign in that line, with a reason, from the next scoring run.
Stations whose own log triggers findings for many of the stations they worked: always the same wrong value under “sent” (report, locator, DOK, number) or a striking number of differing times, bands or modes. The cross-check gives the finding to the side whose copy doesn't match the other log; if the error is in the sending station's log, its partners lose points that way. Shown from three stations worked and a quarter of the confirmed contacts. “Waive findings” lifts all findings of a pattern for the other stations at once (from the next run), “Write to entrant” asks for a corrected log.
German callsigns that weren't in the Bundesnetzagentur (German regulator) list on the day of the contest. Contacts with them don't count until you approve the callsign. If one turns up in many logs, it's usually a real station whose licence the list didn't show yet; if there's a suggestion, it's more likely a typo. Approvals apply to all logs of this edition, from the next scoring run.
The certificate is an image of the whole page (title, logos, signatures), and the page puts the texts from the scoring on top. Participants find their certificate on their log submission page once the results are final, the check report (UBN) as soon as they are provisional.
Template
PNG or JPG, A4 landscape or portrait, ideally 3508 × 2480 pixels (300 dpi). No text where the fields go.
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PNG or JPG
Fields
Drag a field into place with the mouse. Or click a field (on the template or in the list) and then click in the template: it jumps there. On the right are all settings of the selected field: font, size, bold, italic, and which places and categories it applies to. Faded fields don't apply to the log selected above under “Preview for”.
Placeholders in curly brackets are replaced for each participant:
Images and fonts
Images (logos, signatures, medals) as PNG with transparency or JPG; then place them on the template with “Add image field”. Fonts as TTF or OTF; bold and italic are separate files of the same family and are assigned to it automatically.
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PNG or JPG
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TTF or OTF
One topic per tab. The overview shows the rules in words, as they appear on the contest page, and tries them out on real logs. After the log deadline the rule set is frozen.
In words
Trial run
Drop in one to five real logs and see how the rules work. Nothing gets saved. It calculates with what's in the tabs, even if unsaved.
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Who manages this contest
Applies to all editions of the contest.