Generic Rules

In cases where SkookumLogger doesn’t support a particular contest, you may be able to use one of the following generic rules sets. These support logging QSOs, checking for dupes, and generating a Cabrillo file. They also track certain kinds of multipliers, but of course do not compute a proper score.

Generic Serial Number Contest

This contest type provides limited support for logging in contest involving serial numbers. The sent and received exchange fields are Call, Report, Serial Number, and Info. The Info field may be used to capture another exchange element; it is not checked by SkookumLogger and is pre-filled with two hyphens.

QSOs count per-band and per-mode. Multipliers count per-band and per-mode.

Multipliers are DXCC countries.

Generic Info Contest

This contest type provides limited support for logging in contest with one arbitrary exchange field. The sent and received exchange fields are Call, Report, and Info. The Info field may be used to for any text and is not checked by SkookumLogger.

QSOs count per-band and per-mode. There are no multipliers.

Generic Grid Square Contest

This contest type provides limited support for logging in contest involving grid squares (Maidenhead locators). The sent and received exchange fields are Call, Report, Grid, and Info. The Grid field expects six characters. The Info field may be used to capture another exchange element; it is not checked by SkookumLogger and is pre-filled with two hyphens.

QSOs count per-band and not per-mode. Multipliers count per-band and not per-mode.

Multipliers are the grid square (the first four characters of the Grid field.

Generic QSO Party

This contest type provides limited support for logging in QSO Parties. The sent and received exchange fields are Call, Report, and Info. The Info field is expected to contain county, US state or Canadian province codes, or “DX”.

QSOs count per-band, per-mode, per-received-county, and per-sent-county.

Multipliers are Counties (O column in the log table, Other checksheet), US States and Canadian Provinces (R column, Region checksheet), and DXCC countries (C column, Countries checksheet). K, KH6, KL, and VE do not count as country multipliers.

When the received call is a US station, the received Info value is analyzed to determine state and county using these rules (otherwise the multiplier is determined from the call):

If Info has two characters, it is a state abbreviation
Otherwise if Info has at least three characters:
If the first two characters are a valid state code, they identify US State
Otherwise if the last two characters are a valid state code, they identify US State
Otherwise the QSO is marked SQ (unknown state)
County and county-state abbreviations are not validated.

NOTE: The complexity of these rules is needed to detect both state and county multipliers for the same QSO. It has a problem with Info like ‘CARNH’ — it determines that I am in CA instead of NH. If you care, you can work around that by flipping the received info to the canonical order: NHCAR, but that is likely to disturb the contest sponsor when you submit your log.