Well after some mucking about, the robot is now able to take the uploaded file, do some checks to make sure its the right file of the right kind, store it according to contest and callsign, make sure it really is cabrillo format and then output some of the data from the file to prove that it arrived intact and also give you a QSO count too.

Well its not time to party yet - there is still LOADS to do, firstly I need an SQL database to load all of the logs into, write the code to handle pushing the data I want into SQL in the first place and then there is a load of work to do creating a leader board based on claimed score and then the actual scoring. Plenty to do then...

So the first part of the robot system works, it will collect logs and store them by contest and by call sign - great, but that's only part of the first part, I also need it to read the logs - confirm some of the data from the cabrillo header and then read that back to the person who uploaded their log for confirmation - interesting - shouldn't be too hard, with luck I will have some time to look at that soon - those confirmations have to happen before the log is committed to the database.

Not that I want to run before I can walk but once the logs are collected, it would be possible to do more data processing on them afterwards - QSO/hour rates as a chart maybe, even a single chart with all the logs on it so you can see how you compared - so many options - I should really get step one done first...