This month, let’s look closely at the required after-contest activity of preparing and officially submitting your Cabrillo log to the sponsor. Then we’ll discuss the many online tools available today for sharing your claimed scores with your local buddies, the members of your club, and the contest world at large.
The first action item is to collect any paper or electronic notes you may have made during the heat of the contest and correct/update your log to match what you heard and exchanged. Optimally you will make these corrections in the logging software itself and rescore the log to come up with your claimed score.
Note that any corrections must come from your on-air experience and notes during the contest. Sending emails to QSO partners to ask them to verify or updated an exchange is strictly forbidden. Checking DX clusters or Reverse Beacon Network skims for call corrections is also not allowed. If you made a recording of the contest, you cannot go back and listen to develop corrections to your log.
You might be tempted to look up callsigns in online databases, such as , to correct name and state exchanges, or to check DX newsletters for a confirmation or fill on a rare DX callsign. Not only are these strictly forbidden by contest rules, but any attempt to do so may lead to erroneous information, as many active contesters will remote to stations in different states, and name exchanges as used in the
