Hi folks-

The 2008 ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest results are now online. You can view them at:

http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/

73,

Sean KX9X

10GHz results will follow soon.

73,

Hi folks-

Our IT staff here at HQ has been on the phone with our ISP for most of the morning. They believe they have resolved the "Possible UCE" rejection message that many people received when trying to submit their DX CW log.

If you had difficulty submitting your DX CW log, please try again. If you are still getting the "Possible UCE" rejection message, let me know off-list.

73,

Sean Kutzko, KX9X

Contest Branch Manager

Hi, Folks-

I'm getting a lot of reports from people trying to submit their DX CW contest logs and having them be rejected.Several submitters are gettting the following message when sending in their logs:

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This is an automatic reply.)

Your message to dxcw@arrl.org could not be processed because the
Subject: of the message

Possible_UCE: KX9X

is not a valid callsign. Please resubmit your log with an email
Subject: header that looks like this:

Subject: your-callsign

If you are submitting a log for a special callsign (such as a 1x1 call
like N6O), or if you are unsure why you were sent this error message
please contact me at contests@arrl.org to make alternate arrangements.

Thanks for your cooperation. 73.

ARRL Contest Branch
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This situation is the result of an error with our ISP's spam filter at ARRL HQ. Several emails are being flagged as incoming spam. Our spam filter then throws "Possible_UCE:" in the subject line of incoming mail, as a flag the message might be spam. This causes problems for the Robot, which reads the subject line of every incoming email looking for a callsign. "Possible_UCE" isn't part of any known callsign, so entries that have been flagged as spam get rejected.

I have already contacted our IT guys this Sunday evening and they are working with our ISP to get the problem corrected as fast as possible. If you get this error message when trying to submit your log, please try to submit again in 24 - 48 hours. We should have the problem corrected by then. Further updates as the situation warrants.

73, Sean Kutzko KX9X

Contest Branch Manager ARRL

Hello, Folks-

Many have written in asking where the Web version of the IARU HF contest results are. We try to get the web results for any given contest up and online before the issue of QST with the results goes out the door. Unfortunately, the day after the March QST was sent out with the IARU printed results, we noticed a problem with the way some HQ Stations were being scored.

After review, we determined that six (6) HQ stations submitted logs with their ITU zone as their sent exchange, not their HQ-society abbreviation. This caused everybody who had a QSO with them to be penalized for "improperly" copying the sent exchange. We have no doubts the HQ stations actually gave their member society abbreviation correctly on the air, but it was not reflected in their log. None of the HQ stations in question were serious competitors in the HQ category.

The only proper thing to do was to re-score the contest with the correct information. This caused a delay in the results getting put on the web.

The result of this incident is minimal. Very few Top Ten places changed hands as they were published in QST, but scores went up slightly. This reflects proper credit of QSO points and multipliers.

The web article, Top Ten lists and all other tables online show the proper tabulated scores of the 2008 IARU HF World Championships. It is now available at:

http://www.arrl.org/members-only/contests/results/2008/IARU/

The Searchable Web Database, Log-Checking Reports and Printable Line Scores should be available over the weekend.

We apologize for the delay in getting the results out to the community sooner.

73,

Sean Kutzko KX9X