> I noticed when preparing my log for submission after the CW SS
> that the Cabrillo file produced by running POST on the log does
> not conform exactly to the format posted on the Web and printed
> in November QST. So I made my own conversion program to line
> things up in the right columns. Somewhat later, I noted that
> messages on the TRLog Reflector suggest that it is not that
> critical to have it exactly right.
Correct.
> On the other hand, when I used POST (the one that came with
> TR v 6.45) to convert my multi-op K2PT ARRL-160 log to Cabrillo,
> I got much bigger surprises. The first few QSOs look like this:
>
> QSO: 1800 CW 1999-12-04 2201 K2PT W4MYA 599 599 Va
> QSO: 1800 CW 1999-12-04 2202 K2PT KB1EGB 599 599 Nh
> QSO: 1800 CW 1999-12-04 2202 K2PT WF2W 599 599 WNy
> QSO: 1800 CW 1999-12-04 2203 K2PT K8OQL 599 599 Wv
> QSO: 1800 CW 1999-12-04 2204 K2PT WK2G 599 599 SNj
> QSO: 1800 CW 1999-12-04 2205 K2PT AA1K 599 599 De
> QSO: 1800 CW 1999-12-04 2206 K2PT K2UG 599 599 ENy
> QSO: 1800 CW 1999-12-04 2207 K2PT K1ZM 599 599 Em
> QSO: 1800 CW 1999-12-04 2208 K2PT N1RR 599 599 Em
> QSO: 1800 CW 1999-12-04 2210 K2PT N4AR 599 599 Ky
>
> Not only are many things in the wrong column numbers, but the
> signal report part of the "exchange sent" comes after the other
> guy's call, and the section part of our "exchange sent" does not
> appear at all.
I haven't really gotten the Cabrillo format done for anything but
the SS and CQ WW. I will work on it in the next week or so.
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