Electronic Log Submission for JIDX Contest


(revised 2023-10)

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      Please replace any "%" mark with "@" (for spam)

  ** Please replace any "%" with "@" in email address.
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          Use the following JIDX addresses Please

      Any questions       : je1cka%gmail.com
      Log Submission Phone: ph%jidx.org
      Log Submission CW   : cw%jidx.org

       All emails will be returned except othewise listed above.
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      IMPORTANT!! IMPORTANT!!
      Please indicate "JIDX" and "YOUR CALLSIGN" in the Subject: line.
      ex.
      Subject: JIDX JE1CKA

JIDX Contest Committee will accept the electronic logs by Email.

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**LOG FORMAT
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  The aplication dependent BINARY format like *.DBF,*.XLS or *.DOC etc 
  are NOT ACCEPTED. 
  The CABRILLO FORMAT is strongly recommended. 
  If you submitt in Cabrillo format, you do not need to check the Multiplier, 
  Dupes nor Points at all. Our check program will calculate each score in 
  even condition.
  The Cabrillo format (see http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/ ).

File Name
  ** IMPORTANT: Please NOT use " " (white space) or "()" in your file name.
     Linux OS can not handle such filename properly.
      
  Use "YOUR CALLSIGN" as the log file name. If you use "JIDX-CW.log" (non unique
  name) else, your log will be overwritten by other same namefile.

The log & summary sheet must meet the following guide lines;
  1. ASCII(=Plain Text) format only.
  2. The summary and log list must be in one file. 
     DO NOT SEPARATE log and summary or each band logs!
  3. The following log data is required:
     Date(YYYY-MM-DD), Time in UTC, Band, Mode, Callsign, his RST, 
     Number sent, My RST, Number recieved, New multi & Point.
     For Multi Op stations, Run/Multi station designator.
     They must be separated by SPACE or TAB
  4. Each QSO data must be terminated with CR/LF(=1 QSO data in 1 Line only) 
     and FIXED column. 
  5. No compressed(ZIP,gz) file is recommended.
  6. The file name should be "your callsign".log
     ie JE1CKA.LOG, KH0AM.LOG

Please refer the sample Summary & Log attached far below.

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Email submittion;
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** DO NOT send the email in "HTML" format. Many M$-Outlook Express, Netscape Mail 
users sent their logs in "html" format. HTML email log will not be processed 
properly, so we do not guarantee your score.
So please set "html" option of your mailer OFF!

  2-1.Compression
    No compression is recommended. Please send your summary+log in PLAIN TEXT
(ASCII) format. 

  2-2. How to send
  Please send your log/summary as "attatchment" with the BASE64 or QuotedPrintable
(mime) encoding.
The BINHEX encoding will not be accepted.

  2-3. Subject: line
  Please indicate "JIDX", USED CALLSIGN and CATEGORY in the mail Subject: line.
There have been large amount of SPAM emails recently to the log addresse.
All emails without "JIDX" in the Subject header will be considered as SPAM and 
will be rejected automatically.
ie; Subject: JIDX JE1CKA ABL

  2-4. Where to send
  Please send your email log to the following email addresses for each JIDX 
contests. 
    Phone 
    CW    

  2-5. Receiption Notice
  If you send your log to the above address in proper format descrived above, 
  you'll receive the automated "Receiption Notice" from JIDX Contest Committee, 
  Please keep the "Receiption Notice" until the result will be published.

  2-6. DECLARATION
    No more declaration is requested in Email-Log.
  All the stations who sent their log by email will be considered to declare 
  the folloing declaration.

  "I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations for Amateur
  Radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge.
  I agree to be bound by the decisions of the JIDX Contest Committee."

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3. Problem?
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  If you can not receive the "Receiption Notice" or the log is too large to send 
in one email, would you consult to the JIDX contest committee chairman before 
sending?
	JIDX committee chairman 

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4. Photos
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Would you send your photos in jpeg/gif format together with your log?
They will be displayed with the result at JIDX Web page.
	http://jidx.org/

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5. JIDX contest supported Logging Programs
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  The following programs have been supported JIDX contest and we committee 
recommends to use one of them. If you know any other logging software which 
support JIDX contest, please let us know.
 
a. N1MM loggger by N1MM 
b. TR4W  
c. QuickScore by John, VK4EMM.
   
d. Super Duperby Paul O'Kane,EI5DI 


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Sample Summary and Log sheet 
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CABRILLO FORAMT

START-OF-LOG: 2.0
CALLSIGN: The callsign used during the contest. 
CONTEST: either JIDX-PH or JIDX-CW 
CATEGORY: Please use the following Abbreviations
     AB = SINGLE-OP ALL-BAND HIGH-POWER
     28 = SINGLE-OP  28MHz SINGLE-BAND HIGH-POWER
     21 = SINGLE-OP  21MHz SINGLE-BAND HIGH-POWER
     14 = SINGLE-OP  14MHz SINGLE-BAND HIGH-POWER
      7 = SINGLE-OP   7MHz SINGLE-BAND HIGH-POWER
    3.5 = SINGLE-OP 3.5MHz SINGLE-BAND HIGH-POWER
    MOP = MULTI-OP (SINGLE-TX ALL-BAND HIGH-POWER)
    
    ABL = SINGLE-OP ALL-BAND LOW-POWER
    28L = SINGLE-OP  28MHz SINGLE-BAND LOW-POWER
    21L = SINGLE-OP  21MHz SINGLE-BAND LOW-POWER
    14L = SINGLE-OP  14MHz SINGLE-BAND LOW-POWER
     7L = SINGLE-OP   7MHz SINGLE-BAND LOW-POWER
   3.5L = SINGLE-OP 3.5MHz SINGLE-BAND LOW-POWER
    MM  = MARITIME-MOBILE (No award eligible)

CLAIMED-SCORE: Score (qso-points-mult)
OPERATORS: callsign1 [callsign2 callsign3...] 
ENTITY: your DXCC entity
CREATED-BY: Name and version of the logging program 
NAME: your name
ADDRESS: your address
SOAPBOX: your comments
EMAIL: your email address
SENTNR: your CQ-Zone

         1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901
QSO: KHz-- MD YYYY-MM-DD UTC- MYCALL------- RST SN---- HISCALL------ RST RN---- T

  * The recommended cabrillo format is fixed column position, however our check 
  program does not care the exact column position but just field(cell) position. 
  Each data must be placed as following order and they'll be separated by space. 
   1st field all QSO data must be started with "QSO:"
   2nd field frequency in KHz (ex 1825, 28000 or 14233), 5digit max
   3rd field mode either PH or CW
   4th field date in YYYY-MM-DD order (ex 2003-04-13)
   5th field time in UTC 4digit (ex 0003, 1822)
   6th field used callsign 13 characters max
   7th field sent RS/T 3digit max
   8th field sent Number(your CQZone)
   9th field HISCALL 13 characters max
  10th field received RS/T 3digit max
  11th field reveived Number (his/her prefecture)
  12th field TX ID (must be 1 or 2 if you are in MOP category)

END-OF-LOG:

======== Example Log in Cabrillo Format ====
START-OF-LOG: 2.0
CALLSIGN: KH0AM
CONTEST: JIDX-CW
CATEGORY: 21L
CLAIMED-SCORE: 2059 (71-71-29)
OPERATORS: JE1CKA
ENTITY: N.MARIANA
NAME: Tack Kumagai
ADDRESS: PO Box 22, Mitaka, 
ADDRESS: Tokyo 181-8791, Japan
SOAPBOX: FT817+2m whip worked great here on sunny shore in Saipan!
SENTNR: 27
QSO: 21031 CW 2000-04-07 2305 KH0AM         599 27     JR7OMD/2      599 18
QSO: 21029 CW 2000-04-07 2317 KH0AM         599 27     JH1AEP        599 16
QSO: 21030 CW 2000-04-07 2318 KH0AM         599 27     JH4NMT        599 31
QSO: 21032 CW 2000-04-07 2319 KH0AM         599 27     JF2SKV        599 20
QSO: 21043 CW 2000-04-07 2321 KH0AM         599 27     JR2GMC        599 20
QSO: 21031 CW 2000-04-07 2325 KH0AM         599 27     JI3ERV        599 22
QSO: 21044 CW 2000-04-07 2327 KH0AM         599 27     JG5CBR/1      599 10
END-OF-LOG:

** If you are in MultiOp category, You must indicate TX nr at the last column.
  Or send two separate logs(Run/Multi stns) in one email.
START-OF-LOG: 2.0
CALLSIGN: KH0AM
CONTEST: JIDX-PH
CATEGORY: MOP
CLAIMED-SCORE: 339435 (1703q-1945p-168m)
OPERATORS: JA1ABC,JE1CKA
ENTITY: N.MARIANA
NAME: Tack Kumagai
ADDRESS: PO Box 22, Mitaka, 
ADDRESS: Tokyo 181-8791, Japan
SENTNR: 27
QSO: 21229 PH 2003-11-09 1105 KH0AM         599 27     JR7OMD/2      599 18 1
QSO: 21229 PH 2003-11-09 1117 KH0AM         599 27     JH1AEP        599 16 1
QSO: 21229 PH 2003-11-09 1118 KH0AM         599 27     JH4NMT        599 31 1
QSO: 28432 PH 2003-11-09 1118 KH0AM         599 27     JF2SKV        599 20 2
QSO: 21229 PH 2003-11-09 1121 KH0AM         599 27     JR2GMC        599 20 1
QSO: 21229 PH 2003-11-09 1125 KH0AM         599 27     JI3ERV        599 22 1
QSO: 14190 PH 2003-11-09 1129 KH0AM         599 27     JG5CBR/1      599 10 2
END-OF-LOG:

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Other Log Format

If you can not find the way to convert your log into Cabrillo format,
we will do the job. Any ASCII file output from CT/TRLOG/NA/WriteLog/ZLOG 
etc logging software will be accepted by the committee. 
BUT PLEASE USE THE CABRILLO SUMMARY Format described as above.
DO not forget to indicate your sent number(=CQ-Zone) in Summary.

CALLSIGN: KH0AM

BAND YYYY/MM/DD HHMM  CALLSIGN      RSTNR    RSTNR   NEW  POINT
                                     SENT     RCVD   MULTI
20  2000/11/13  2310    JE1CKA       5927     5917    17   1
20  2000/11/13  2312    JH1AEP       5927     5916    16   1
20  2000/11/13  2316    JI3ERV       5927     5922    22   1
20  2000/11/13  2317    JH4NMT       5927     5931    31   1
10  2000/11/14  0005    JR7OMD/2     5927     5918    18   2
10  2000/11/14  0007    JR2GMC       5927     5920    20   2

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	JIDX contest committee chairman
	Tack Kumagai JE1CKA/KH0AM
	Internet: jidx-chairman@jidx.org
	http://jidx.org/