I find it interesting I and a few others had no problem with "T" being
changed to "0" in the QTC records of the WL Cabrillo output. I'm running
a new install of 10.40J. I wonder what gives that some had the problem
and not others.
73 W0ETC
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:53:29 -0000 "Bruce Sawyer" <zf2nt@candw.ky>
writes:
> The experience we just had with the problem in the Cabrillo output
> for WAE
> RTTY does lead me to wonder why each software logging program needs
> to have
> its own Cabrillo generator. One of the first things I noticed after
> the
> problem was discovered with "T" being changed to "0" in the QTC
> records of
> the Cabrillo output was that the ADIF output from Writelog did not
> have this
> problem and appeared to be correct. I can see no information in a
> Cabrillo
> file for the log itself which is not also included in the ADIF
> output. Thus
> it would seem that the most efficient use of everybody's time would
> be for
> each logging vendor to concentrate on generating correct ADIF output
> and
> then have one vendor source for a filter (to use Unix terminology)
> which
> would take an ADIF file and rewrite it as a Cabrillo file. There
> would
> still be the need for that program to solicit information about
> name,
> address, contest club, soapbox comments, etc. But I think the ADIF
> input
> file would have all of the other information needed.
>
> I frequently switch back and forth between WriteLog, TRlog, and CT
> according
> to what contest and what mode I'm operating. (And also according to
> the
> whims of other people operating with me when I do a multi-op
> effort.) With
> just these three programs, I find myself constantly fumbling with
> updates as
> the contest robots become progressively more obnoxious in their
> demands
> about the Cabrillo content. I realize such a move would require
> cooperation
> among the logging software vendors, and there is always the question
> of who
> would provide the Cabrillo generator. But they all cooperated in
> the
> generation of the Cabrillo specification, so such a move wouldn't
> break new
> ground.
>
> Bruce, ZF2NT
>
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