In a message dated 1/30/06 12:55:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ke4yyd@gtcom.net writes:
There is no way I can be convinced that deprecating the VHF-DX logging
program encouraged more contesters nor was it a necessity. After all the
ARRL robot was accepting the both the Alpha and Numeric band designations up
to the January 2006 contest. Perhaps one of the ARRL contesting folks can
explain it
To save N1ND the time of explaining it again, here it is. This Cabrillo
change had missed my attention as well, though to me it seems it should be an
issue only to the software writers, once I fix up my January log.
73 - Jim K8MR
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(from N1ND):
About 18 months ago it was announced that Cabrillo specs were being changed
for band identifiers. Numeric designators replaced letters. This was done for
several reasons, including making Cabrillo VHF logs compatible with Logbook
of the World. The letter designator are found at
_http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/qso-template.html_
(http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/qso-template.html)
We allowed people a year and a half to update their software but the robot
now only accepts the numeric designators effective January 1.
You need to edit the Band letters to the correct numeric designators then
resubmit the log.
The reason you are only getting 50 errors is that the robot only returns the
first 50 problems it finds.
Thanks and 73Dan Henderson, N1ND
ARRL Contest Branch Manager
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From: Jimk8mr@aol.com [mailto:Jimk8mr@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 11:19 AM
To: Henderson, Dan N1ND
Subject: Re: [4893.januaryvhf] Re: K8MR Log
Dan,
My VHF SS log got accepted, but with about 50 lines rejected for "invalid
band specification". However the robot seems to have accepted another 100 or
so lines with the same band format (A-B-C-D-E).
What gives?
Thanks,
Jim Stahl K8MR
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