Steve,
It appears that ARRL is not thinking clearly. When changing from A to 50, B
to 144 etc. there are more characters the used which, IMHO, complicates the
program, not simplifies it. Seems like its change for change sake. It
would seem that ARRL could design the program to accept both the A or 50
entries.
Another thing, was the program change announced before hand??? If it was a
lot of us didn't get the info.
The VHF-DX Cabrillo file worked fine with ARRL for 5 years. Was it "broke".
I don't think so.
David, excontester
----- Original Message -----
From: "STeve Andre'" <andres@msu.edu>
To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] ARRL Contest Robot and 903 mhz Q's
> On Sunday 29 January 2006 17:46, David wrote:
>> Thanks Ned, but it just isn't worth the trouble. I have been a faithful
>> VHF contester having only missed one ARRL contest in over a decade. I
>> almost stopped contesting when the Cabrillo requirements came out since I
>> didn't have a computer. After getting a computer and struggling many
>> hours
>> to learn how to submit the scores via the VHF-DX program, I just don't
>> feel
>> like having to play musical chairs with ARRL again. They need to keep it
>> simple or they have lost another contester.
>>
>> David
>
> I hope you won't leave. Formats of things to change from time to
> time. My first contest was written down in a file and I didn't realize
> about Cabrillo so I spent an 'enjoyable' evening writing little awk
> scripts to form the data into something the robot would take. It was
> kinda funny--I'd submit the log and the robot would crab about
> something, and after four cycles of this I got it right.
>
> So I see I'm going to have to change my system for the June contest.
> If all thats changed is the band designators, I think that is a fairly
> minimal change. Backwards compatibility is nice but things do
> change. I'll have to do more reading on this but it doesn't sound
> like an earth shattering problem as yet.
>
> --STeve Andre'
> wb8wsf en82
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