Folks
1. Tree has a point. Proper specs should/would be required.
2. I have been accepting and scoring Cabrillo logs for past 2 years. I run
the files through an Excel template I have and it scores and calculates
mults etc.
I prefer Cabrillo files actually as it is the least amount of work for me.
Sorry to be contrary ..........
73 de Dave and a belated Happy New year to all.
David Shipman (VE7CFD/VA7AM)
davidshipman@shaw.ca
VE7CFD@rac.ca
Phone: 604-926-8170
Fax: 604-926-7320
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Nash [mailto:ve3kz@netcom.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 7:45 PM
> To: Tree N6TR; jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca; trlog@contesting.com;
> ve3iay@rac.ca
> Cc: Dave Shipman
> Subject: Re: [TRLog] RAC Cabrillo
>
>
> Hi Folks
>
> I don't believe that RAC mentions Cabrillo anywhere in their contest
> announcement. Unless the log checkers have access to the appropriate
> decoding software, a Cabrillo file is pretty much useless, no multiplier
> check and no points for the QSO's!
>
> I think that a Cabrillo file input to VE7CFD would be a little
> premature. I
> know that Cabrillo files sent to me to use as Claimed Scores for the TCA
> magazine are likewise of no use to me.
>
> The RAC contest input requires the number of 20 pointers, 10
> pointers and 2
> pointers plus the multipliers. Please contact Dave VE7CFD at ve7cfd@rac.ca
> for any further clarification. He's the one on the hot seat!
>
> 73 Bob VE3KZ
> ve3kz@rac.ca
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tree N6TR <tree@kkn.net>
> To: jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca <jskatz@sk.sympatico.ca>; trlog@contesting.com
> <trlog@contesting.com>; ve3iay@rac.ca <ve3iay@rac.ca>
> Date: December 30, 2001 9:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [TRLog] RAC Cabrillo
>
>
> >
> >> The Cabrillo spec only lists those contests whose organizers
> have talked
> to
> >> the group that devised the Cabrillo spec and got their contest included
> >> (basically ARRL, CQ, NCJ and a couple of others). Increasingly, other
> >> contest sponsors, such as RAC, are seeing the merits of the
> Cabrillo file
> >> format and using it, even though their contests are not on the official
> >> list. My suggestion would be for POST to produce a file that
> looks like a
> >> valid Cabrillo file for all contests. The only difficulty with this
> arises
> >> when the contest has an exchange that is so different from anything in
> the
> >> spec that it's not clear what format to use for the QSOs. Unless and
> until
> >> the sponsors for such "oddball" contests get their contest included in
> the
> >> spec so everyone knows what the file is supposed to look like,
> POST could
> >> either use Tree's guess at what the Cabrillo file should look like, or
> >> refuse to output a Cabrillo file for any such contests (there shouldn't
> be
> >> many of these; the most common exchange formats are already covered in
> the
> >> supported list).
> >
> >Actaully, the first thing that should be done is one of the following:
> >
> >1. Have the RAC talk to the Cabrillo Gods.
> >
> >2. Have the RAC refrain from using the word Cabrillo, unless they say
> >something like: Cabrillo WPX format of Cabrillo Stew Perry format.
> >
> >Invoking Cabrillo without defining which format is wrong.
> >
> >Once one of these two steps are done, then I can deal with it as a
> >logging program author. It would not be appropriate for me to come
> >up with my definition of what it should look like.
> >
> >Tree
> >
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