Hi Chuck
For the Radio Amateurs of Canada contests we had
to develop custom log checking software.
Prior to my starting to develop the log checking
software, I researched and communicated with
about 8 different groups on the topic. The
results were pretty much universal that each
groups processes and underlying software was
highly customized to their purposes. There was
really no basis to share their work due to
differences in development environments, software
languages used, levels of technological
integrations such as integration into databases
and differences in underlying coding to handle
the specifics of the particular contest. Further
it became apparent that the programmer needed in
depth understanding of the adjudication of the
contest in order to create accurate software
processes to encapsulate the log checking process.
I also do the log checking for the Canadian
Prairies QSO Party. While researching log
checking options we were fortunate enough that
Dave Mascaro, W3KM had developed an application
(Cabrillo Evaluator) that was suitable, with some
modifications/customizations that would work with
our rules and scoring. Dave was very helpful in
getting his software configured for the
event. His software will score a variety of
contests as well as common functions like dupe
checking, UBN reports and log analisys like not in log conditions.
There is still a separate set of analysis needed
to complete the scoring and adjudication as no
one report coming out of the software has all the
details, so some spreadsheet work is needed to
compile the results from multiple reports.
You can checkout his application at https://qsl.net/w3km/
Bart Ritchie, VE5CPU
RAC Contest Management Team
At 12:47 PM 2025-04-11, Chuck Gooden via CQ-Contest wrote:
I am curious what software is used to analyze
the cabrillo files and officially score the
contest results. I am not requesting
information on contest logging software like
N1MM that hams used to create the files they
submit after a contest. But rather the
software the contest organizers use to score and
come up with the official scores.
Is this software propitiatory or open source? Available on a Github?
Chuck K9LC
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