I've been spending some time actually learning about Cabrillo's format and
purpose. I have to tell you...if anyone takes the time to do this that it is
obvious that a ton of work went into making it well formatted as a machine
decodable and auditable system. Kudos to the individual or team that put it
together!
As technically good as it is, there are areas in it's "human interface" that
could still use some work. By "human interface", I mean, "Humans expect one
thing, while the system does something else".
One example is the omission of the ability to log 0-point QSO's (dupes),
especially important to do when so many people paper-log w/o dupe sheets, etc.
Another is the need to have the log in chronological order (a difficult task for
paper loggers with multiple bands, each with their own log).
My question is this... is there any "standing" committee that is working on the
system to allow it to mature further or has it "frozen" for the forseeable
future?
Kind regards,
Ev Tupis, W2EV
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