Don G3XTT has the story right, because he was there. :-) And now for
the rest of the story...
In the early 1990's there was a thing called the "ARRL Format" for
submitting contest QSO data to the ARRL on floppy disk. Cabrillo was
an extention to the ARRL Format that added summary sheet info and a
few other things to help automate tabulation of contest results. At
the time it's name was ARRL Format V2.
In order for ARRL Format V2 to succeed I felt it required unanimous
support from the ARRL, CQ, and the authors of the most popular contest
software. All parties gave support without hesitation except for CQ
-- the CQ representative said "CQ will give support, but only if you
remove 'ARRL' from the name." Oof!
Remembering the story G3XTT told me about Maidenhead I started
noticing the names of nearby streets and businesses -- there's a
Cabrillo Highway and a Cabrillo beer shop and so on. Out of
desperation (and exasperation) I chose the name Cabrillo.
--Trey, N5KO
G3XTT writes:
> As I told Franki, Trey was staying with me on one occasion and he mentioned
> that he had noticed the place name Maidenhead en route to here (it's about
> 10 miles away from where I live). I explained that Maidenhead locators were
> so-named because they were agreed at an IARU conference held in Maidenhead.
>
> So when Trey developed the logging format he decided to adopt a similar
> approach and name it after a local place name.
>
> Don G3XTT
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